I attended the book release party October 14 by UCSD Political Scientist James Fowler, announcing Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, by By Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, and James Fowler, PhD. He talks about the surprising role that social networks can play in our lives and our behaviors.
I shot this on my iPhone, and while we had good lighting to begin with, as it got dark I decided that the audio was still interested in listening to… See also my earlier discussion James Fowler in Conversation with Tom
This is a short movie produced for the San Diego Science Festival “Sell your science” competition It was shot at Torrey Del Mar Park, San Diego. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Produced by Tom Munnecke
Nobel laureate Kurt Wüthrich of Scripps Research Institute talks with Tom Munnecke at High Tech High School in Chula Vista, Ca. Mar 3, 2009. They talk a little about educational systems in United States and Europe. This talk was part of the San Diego Science Festival being organized by Larry Bock and others at UCSD .
Barbara Marx Hubbard founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution talks with Tom Munnecke and others on the night Obama’s inauguration. She discusses her campaign for the vice presidency 25 years ago, and how her dreams and visions of that time are coming to fruition with the new shift in direction. She talks about her notion of Peace Rooms, ways of finding out what’s working, how to develop grass roots organizations that also feed information to centralized ones. Tom talks about the network effects of goodness, and how all this might “go viral.” Heather Wood Ion, Jim Pinto, Prapanna Smith, Nancy Walsh, and Carla Gerstein also participate. Video by Robert Foxworth, music by Kevin MacLeod, editing by Tom Munnecke. Taped Jan 20, 2009 in Encinitas, Ca. See also James Fowler’s Interview on the positive effects of Social Networks. This interview has been permanently saved at the Internet Archive.
Victor Cortez, UC Irvine Class of 2010, talks about his efforts to teach science at the Noah Teen Center in Santa Ana. Interviewed at Nataional Academy of Sciences’ Sackler Symposium In Light of Evolution III Two Centuries of Darwin. Produced by Tom Munnecke, music by Kevin MacLeod.
Jonas Salk said, “The most important question we can ask ourselves is, “are we being good ancestors.” Here is a summary of the Uplift Academy’s 2007 Good Ancestor Principle Workshop held in Encinitas, Ca. Feb, 2007. Produced by Tom Munnecke. Includes comments by Jonas Salk, David Brin, Frederick Turner, Heather Wood Ion, Jamais Cascio, Tom Munnecke, Mark Frazier, Michael Strong, Judith Rosen, and Diedre Taylor. Music by Jim Mackay, editing by Silas Haggerty of Smoothfeather Productions, Tom Munnecke, and Rob Constantine.
This is conversation between UC San Diego Political Scientist James Fowler with Tom Munnecke and Heather Wood Ion on James’ research of happiness, obesity, drinking, and more based on the Framingham Heart Study data. He provides some provocative evidence that social networks might propagate happiness in a contagious fashion, more powerfully than unhappiness. We also talk about the spread of loneliness, ways of researching empathy, centralized “smart center” networks vs. smart edges, group selection, the work of happiness and elevation by Jonathan Haidt, and ways we might construct networks of uplift. Videography by Robert Foxworth, music by Kevin MacLeod. Taped Jan 6, 2009 at the UC San Diego Faculty Club. This video is also archived at the Internet Archives.
Frederick Turner, inteviewed at San Simeon on the California Coast Highway on his experiences growing up in Africa; J.T. Fraser’s theory of time, as well as some of his poetry. We were driving up California Highway 1 coast road to the International Society for the Study of Time triannual conference. Turner is Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Produced by Tom Munnecke.
