Harry Kroto Sussex University Science, A Round Peg in a Square World on: The Vega Science Trust The lecture covers many topics from a walk through chemistry, the nature of truth and debate, the importance of education at a young age and the value of meccano!
Nature or Nurture: My Life in Technology, So Far on: Rare in such a young industry, Judy Estrin is a second-generation computer scientist who has been around computing all of her life. Her parents, Thelma and Gerald Estrin, both PhD's in electrical engineering and IEEE Fellows, worked together when Judy was an infant to build Israel's first mainframe computer, the Weizac, based on the principles developed by John von Neumann.
Francesca Ayodeji Akala World Bank Session 3: Middle East and North Africa HIV/AIDS Strategy Launch on: World Bank At its headquarters in Washington, DC, in support of World AIDS Day 2005, the World Bank held a week of events sponsored by the Global HIV/AIDS Program and coordinated by the South Asia region.
Jared Diamond Author How Societies Fail - And Sometimes Succeed on: Long Now Foundation Jared Diamond articulately spells out how his best-selling book, COLLAPSE, took shape. At first it was going to be a book of 18 ... all È chapters chronicling 18 collapses of once-powerful societies; but he also wanted to profile cultures like Tokugawa-era Japan, which wholly reversed lethal deforestation, and Iceland, which succeeded in a fragile environment.
Interview on: The Vega Science Trust Max Perutz discovered the structure of Haemoglobin (Nobel Prize 1962) and was the founder of the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the birth place of modern molecular biology.
The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla on: Google Video Nikola Tesla was a world-renowned Serb-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history, but also made bizarre claims late in his career.
David Deutsch Oxford University The Qubit on: David Deutsch Video Lectures Introducing quantum theory, the quantum theory of computation, physical systems, observations, and the simplest quantum physical system
Daniel Dennett Tufts University Interview on: Slate Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
Roger Stettner Advanced Scientific Concepts A Live Motion Portable 3D Video Camera on: Google TechTalks Advanced Scientific Concepts has developed a 3D camera unlike any other in existence. At video frame rates (30Hz) their solid-state flash LADAR system is able to simultaneously measure the distance to every point in the scene by recording the time-of-flight of a laser pulse. At full speed the camera collects 500,000 range points per second using a 1.57um eye-safe laser that has been successfully tested at distances greater than 5km.The entire system is the size of a shoebox and weighs only 12 pounds.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology Tissue Engineering: The Challenges of Imitating Nature on: WGBH Forum Tissue engineering combines the principles of biology, engineering and medicine to create biological substitutes of native tissues.
Kenneth Nealson California Institute of Technology / JPL Searching for Life in the Universe: Lessons from the Earth on: Carnegie Institution How will we recognize extra-terrestrial life if we have never seen it? The answer lies in reducing the search to its barest essentials as measured by physics and chemistry, with help from statistics and data mining.
Early Technology Marketing Efforts: An Evening with Regis McKenna on: Spend an evening with Regis McKenna, Chairman Emeritus of The McKenna Group, author, and pioneer of many of the theories and practices of technology marketing that have become commonplace today. McKenna, who has worked with many of the most recognizable companies in Silicon Valley and helped launch some of the most important technological innovations of the last 30 years, will discuss early technology marketing efforts.
Near Spacecraft visits asteroid Eros on: SciVee.com NASA's NEAR Spacecraft visits asteroid Eros. We learn why, in trying to deflect an asteroid, setting off a big explosion nearby is the wrong thing to do.
Clive Bell Heildberg University Long Run Economic Costs of AIDS on: World Bank Most existing estimates of the macroeconomic costs of AIDS, as measured by the reduction in the growth rate of GDP, are modest. For Africa - the continent where the epidemic has hit the hardest - they range between 0.3 and 1.5 percent annually.
Michael Shermer Skeptics Society Why People Believe Weird Things on: TEDtalks Michael Shermer is the founder/publisher of Skeptic Magazine, and author of several books, including Why People Believe Weird Things. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:29)
Clay Shirky New York University Clay Shirky, Making Digital Durable - Seminars About Long Term Thinking on: Google Video "THIS is what the Internet has been straining to become," said Clay Shirky Monday night, both joking and meaning it. He was referring to a category ("tag") which emerged from users on the photo-sharing site Flickr. The category is "cats in sinks."...Shirky pointed out that "cats in sinks" has none of the limitations of former category systems such as the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress scheme or Yahoo's hierarchical category structure. There is no need for a category "cats" with subcategory "in sinks," nor a category "sinks" with subcategory "cats in".
NOVA ScienceNow: Mirror Neurons on: WGBH A recently discovered system in the brain may help explain why we humans can get so worked up watching other people.
