Zain Iqbal

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Name: Zain Iqbal
Date registered: Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Latest posts

  1. Weekend Image: Catch the Annular Solar Eclipse — Friday, May 18, 2012
  2. Churchill Club: What’s the Next Big Thing in Tech? — Thursday, May 17, 2012
  3. Think Big: How to Improve Your Small Business Strategy — Thursday, May 17, 2012
  4. Human Rights Seesaw: China Makes Progress, Then Regresses — Wednesday, May 16, 2012
  5. Does American Higher Education Need a Reinvention? — Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Monitor Breakfast Preview: Ron Paul2 comments
  2. Fashion Sense: FORA.tv Presents the Women’s Wear Daily Global Sourcing & Markets Forum2 comments
  3. Next Week: Monitor Breakfast, L2 China Clinic and National Geographic Live1 comment
  4. WIE Symposium: Inspiration, Empowerment for Women1 comment
  5. Next Week: Innovations in Green Business, Social Media, Social Entrepreneurship1 comment

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May
10

Marriage Equality and Gay Rights: Lots of Work Left to be Done

President Obama’s announcement in support of marriage equality was hailed by gay rights groups as a huge step in the right direction, as gay and lesbian couples were fully validated by a sitting president for the first time in history. But as we saw with the vote in North Carolina on Tuesday that banned same-sex …

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May
09

President Obama Announces Support for Same-Sex Marriage

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama announced of his support of gay marriage– an endorsement that he described as a “personal conviction.” The President said, “At a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to …

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May
09

How A Honeybee Collapse Could Affect Our Food Supply

If you haven’t yet heard the latest on Colony Collapse Disorder, a sudden and mysterious disappearance of perfectly healthy honeybees from their hives, then read these rather chilling pieces from Boing Boing and Time. In short, the reason honeybees are dying off in droves has been linked to a certain pesticide used on corn plants. The fact that pesticides …

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May
08

America’s Energy Future (Still) in the Hands of OPEC

Following an alarming spike this spring that sent gas prices north of $4 a gallon across the United States, the cost of a barrel of oil has finally declined over the past two months. Though the prices have fluctuated due to economic concerns such as the debt crisis in Europe and weak job numbers in the U.S., …

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May
08

Bob Costas: Football Is Unacceptably Brutal

In the lead up to today’s Intelligence Squared debate on whether or not universities should end their college footbll programs, the NFL has been in the news as of late; and it hasn’t exactly been positive press. The tragic death of former San Diego linebacker Junior Seau has led to a lot of speculation on …

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May
07

Welcome to the Anthropocene: the Era of Humans

Last week we wrote on the strange connection between malaria and slavery, a subject highlighted in a lecture by science writer Charles Mann. In the program titled Living in the Homogenocene, Mann discusses the impact of European colonization in the 15th and 16th centuries and its later influence on the early American economy. The following …

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May
07

Coming Up This Week: Should Colleges Ban Football?

Here’s a look at what’s happening this week on FORA.tv. College football programs are an important source of revenue for many universities across the nation and heighten a school’s brand awareness among young generation. However, these programs have also been been blamed for exploiting the welfare and health of young athletes for profit. Tomorrow, Intelligence …

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May
04

Silicon Valley’s Innovation Deficit: The Big Picture Idea

There’s a growing amount of evidence that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are suffering from tunnel vision; that is according to a recent post in The Atlantic. The problem? When it comes to ideas in the social space, it seems there is plenty of money to throw around. But if your start-up needs more than …

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May
04

Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys’ Influence on Hip Hop

Sad news today from the world of hip hop: Adam Yauch, aka MCA, of the Beastie Boys died at the age of 47. Yauch was a founding member of the New York City-based trio along with Adam Horowitz and Michael Diamond. The Beastie Boys released their first album Licensed to Ill in 1986, with the …

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May
03

Google Engaging Automakers on “Self-Driving” Car

The classic American road trip could rely a lot less on driving and a lot more on sightseeing; that is, if Google has anything to do with it. They are currently shopping their autonomous driving technology to interested customers, according to a recent article in WIRED. Sebastian Thrun, the chief engineer behind the project–part of …

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