Top 10 Videos of 2011: Hitchens, Dawkins, Jobs, Moore and More

Use this area to offer a short teaser of your email's content. Text here will show in the preview area of some email clients. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. CULTURE              Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)— A Tribute    The FORA.tv community celebrates the life of one of our favorite speakers: the great iconoclast Christopher Hitchens. POLITICS              WikiLeaks: Why It Matters, Why It Doesn't? An expert panel discusses the right of government to keep secrets vs. the right of citizens to know the truth.   TECHNOLOGY              Venture Capitalist Roger McNamee: 'Google Is Done'    Google has become too successful and its product is now polluted. SCIENCE              Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?    A professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University identifies what's truly novel about humanity. SCIENCE              Steven Pinker: Language as a Window into Human Nature    This fascinating animated lecture shows how we use passive language to gain trust. ENVIRONMENT              Slavoj Zizek: Catastrophic But Not Serious    Our modern, 21st century world is faced with a number of threats. Why don't we take them seriously? CULTURE              The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion    In this highly charged debate, humanist and theology scholars argue whether or not religion helps or hinders the progress of humanity. SCIENCE              Richard Dawkins: There Never Was a First Homo Sapiens    The missing link in human evolution: Can we really tell the exact moment when one species evolves into another?  POLITICS              Michael Moore: Here Comes Trouble    The controversial filmmaker discusses the student loan crisis, the failing GOP and Obama's disillusioned progressive supporters.  TECHNOLOGY              "Nice" Is Not an Adjective to Describe Steve Jobs    Jobs lived as if the normal rules didn't apply to him, says Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Apple's cofounder. FROM BLAISE ZEREGA Each December, we sit down, look back and pick the year's top videos. We choose 10 videos for the homepage, and 10 videos for each topic page: Business, Environment, Politics, TechnologyScience, and Culture. We select videos using measures both objective and subjective: view counts, embeds, shares, interactions and comments on our site, on Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, Boxee, YouTube, and all the places that smart people go to discuss and share comments about FORA.tv. Today, we unveil our Top 10 Videos for 2011. Leave us a comment or visit our Facebook pages to let us know what you think of our choices. We hope you enjoy the series! We're always interested in learning how we can make our content better and our site more interesting. So, please keep the comments coming via TalktomeBlaise@fora.tv. Stay tuned to the FORA.tv blog for more info, and visit us on Facebook and Twitter for news and updates on the latest videos from FORA.tv.