Commonwealth Club of California Best Archived Videos

The Commonwealth Club of California has been bringing fascinating speakers to their forum since 1903. Their podcast feed currently features many years of speaking events.

Sullenberger had less than three minutes to plan and execute the water landing hailed around the world as the miracle on the Hudson last winter.

Who is your mentor? Author Tim Ferriss went in search of guidance as he spoke with experts from the tech, business, sports and entertainment fields-and he's coming back to INFORUM to share their best advice for successfully navigating through life.

When the Conficker computer "worm" was unleashed in 2008, security experts were dumbfounded. Through a Windows security flaw, the worm infected 12 million computers, including machines vital to air traffic and banking systems.

Tim Ferriss presents some of the findings in his latest book The 4-Hour Body in which he used himself as a guinea pig to find out the fastest way to the best results when it comes to the human body.

New Testament scholar and best-selling author Bart Ehrman is interviewed by Reverend Alan Jones on who really wrote the Gospels in this streaming interview provided by the CommonWealth Club.

In his best-selling, first book, The Lean Startup, entrepreneur Eric Ries laid out a new road map to success for startups of all shapes and sizes, kick-starting a movement that quickly spread across the industry and inspired a generation of entrepreneurs.

One of the world's most influential corporate leaders shares how a small Seattle coffee shop spawned a global empire. Schultz discusses what he's learned on his journey from small business owner to head of a company with more than 17,000 locations.

In this talk economist Steve Levitt & journalist Stephen Dubner discuss their follow up book to Freakonomics called SuperFreakonomics. Levitt & Dubner describe how they met and ultimately came to write Freakonomics.

Come hear from the filmmaker of this year's Academy Award-winning best documentary feature film. Could the global economic meltdown of the last few years have been prevented?