Below is video from the January 19, 2011, program at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. Dr. Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a visiting professor of political science.
Author Timothy Ferris recently visited The Commonwealth Club of California's Inforum division. Our video partners at BeNow.tv streamed the event live over the internet, and here is an archived version of the video from that program:
The study of history began as purely military history, notes Victor Davis Hanson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and the author of The Father of Us All. "There was no such thing as history apart from war." But, he argues, we have given military history short shrift, in our modern desire to perfect a Western world and make it free of conflict.
Hanson spoke to The Commonwealth Club on May 3, 2010, about war and its impact on society. You can watch the entire speech and audience Q&A session in the HD video below, in which he discusses the role of war in the world, what has and hasn't changed, and what it means for the conduct of nations.
Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen, who spoke at The Commonwealth Club in late February 2010, was the subject of the 400th video of Commonwealth Club events to be posted to the popular Fora.tv online video site.
There have been about 5 million views of Club programs on Fora in the past couple years.
Also, check out our YouTube channel, which is in the top 100 nonprofit channels on YouTube!
For those of you in the Bay Area who are subscribers to Comcast, here's a heads-up about two upcoming Commonwealth Club programs that will be broadcast on Comcast cable channel 715:
Travel expert Peter Greenberg will air this Sunday, February 7, at 10 p.m.
Health care expert (and brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) Zeke Emanuel will air Sunday, February 14, at 10 p.m.
"Hudson Hero" Chesley Sullenberger is using his place in the spotlight to push for improved safety regulations for airline pilots -- and thus for passengers. "Sully," as he's widely known, appeared in conversation at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco with KGO-TV anchor Dan Ashley November 30, 2009; they spoke about Sully's heroic piloting of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, which was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River after its engines were knocked out of commission by a flock of birds. "This flight was completely normal," he said. "It was unremarkable in every way -- for the first 100 seconds."
What happened after that first 100 seconds has rocketed Sully to national fame, as he and his co-pilot safely landed the plane without the loss of a single life. Sully and Ashley recounted the entire story, which you can watch in the above video; Commonwealth Club members can also read it in the February/March issue of The Commonwealth magazine, due out at the end of this month.
But Sully isn't just going around the nation telling people about his adventure; he's also using his stature to talk about airline safety and reminding people that "commercial aviation is ultra-safe; it's safe and getting safer" -- a message that likely helps reduce fears brought on by any story of airline crashes or emergency landings.
In his Club program, Captain Sullenberger also talked about the need to update rules governing things such as the amount of time pilots have to rest between flights. "We're living with decades-old rest rules, rules that were written generations ago, in a different world, at a different time, when, on the short-haul flying end of the scale, pilots weren't flying as many flights per day as they do now," he said. "On the long-haul end of the scale, the technology did not yet exist to have 15- or 16-hour nonstop flights to Mumbai."
He said that public awareness and political will are needed to make changes in the system. He's doing his part with the public awareness.
And, sometimes the Internet just offers up some lighter material, which we found by happenstance on the 'net and wanted to share with you.
Here's a video by Ron Fredericks demonstrating how to drive to The Commonwealth Club's San Francisco headquarters from Sunnyvale. (Click on the photo below to go to a new page with the embedded video.) This won't change your life, but it might help you find parking.
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