Global Climate Change on: UC Berkeley Webcasts Al Gore speaks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, following a presentation on global climate change.
The Geometry of Sound on: sciencelive Earlier in the week Liz spoke to Dr Jamie Ward, about synaesthesia, a condition where people see shapes and colours when listening to sounds. This session shows us that that's not as crazy as it may sound. Liz talks to Trevor Cox, Professor of pure mathematics at the Open University and Gresham Professor of Geometry in London and Robin Wilson, professor of acoustic engineering at Solford University about the shape of sound. Trevor Cox tells us how a concert hall shapes the sound within it and how the acoustics engineer works out the perfect acoustics for a space. Robin Wilson explains how the ancient Greeks linked maths and music and traces the progression of musical symmetries from ancient Greece to modern days.
Julia A. Kornfield California Institute of Technology Unsolved Problems In Biomedical Materials Engineering on: Caltech Dr. Julia A. Kornfield, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, and Dr. David A. Tirrell, Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech, presented this lecture as part of the 0.1 Seminar series. They discuss some of the complications and challenges that arise in the clinical use of medical devices that are surgically implanted each year, and present some current approaches to the amelioration of the resulting problems.
Barton Zweibach MIT String Theory for Pedestrians Part III on: CERN In this 3-lecture series I will discuss the basics of string theory, some physical applications, and the outlook for the future. I will begin with the main concepts of the classical theory and the application to the study of cosmic superstrings. Then I will turn to the quantum theory and discuss applications to the investigation of hadronic spectra and the recently discovered quark-gluon plasma. I will conclude with a sketch of string models of particle physics and showing some avenues that may lead to a complete formulation of string theory.
Brian Trench Dublin City University Communicating Science on: Science journalist David Dickson, founder of SciDev.Net, and Brian Trench, senior lecturer and head of the School of Communications at Dublin City University, battle it out over the present and future of science communication. An interesting debate, and a topical one...
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
Interview on: The Vega Science Trust Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
Scott Kraus New England Aquarium Summer Haunt: Mystery of the Lost Right Whales on: WBGH The New England Aquarium research team partnered with a Canadian National Film Board crew to conduct a search for the lost right whales of the North Atlantic aboard the 160-foot sailing vessel Sedna IV
S. Carroll University of Chicago Cosmology for particle physicists Part II on: CERN The past few years have seen dramatic breakthroughs and spectacular and puzzling discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology. We know much about the universe, but understand very little. Open questions include the nature of the dark matter and dark energy, the origin of the matter/antimatter asymmetry, the possibility of inflation, and the role of string theory and extra dimensions in the early universe. All of these issues impact strongly on, and will be heavily influenced by, upcoming experiments in particle physics.
Mish Michaels meteorologist, CBS4 Weather Team IDEAS Boston Youth Summit: Mish Michaels on: WGBH Forum Mish Michaels introduces and moderates the 2006 IDEAS Boston Youth Summit.
Brian Greene Columbia University The Elegant Universe - Part 2 - String's the Thing on: MySpace Part 2 of a three part Nova on quantum physics, string theory, and unified field theory, hosted by Brian Greene.
Weird Waves on: sciencelive What do mobile phones,microwaves, suntans, night-vision cameras and your radio have in common? Why does your mobile phone make your radio click,and how do X-rays see through your skin? See how lightcan be polarised and find outwhy the sky is blue.Play 'guess the object' in our thermal imaging picture game,and listen to the way your TV remote control sounds! By getting to grips with the wavelength and frequency of differenttypes of radiation,all will become clear!
John Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Interview on: Nobelprize.org Interview with the 2006 Nobel Laureates in Physics, John C. Mather and George F. Smoot, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
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.
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.
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)
Amy Smith Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tales of Invention on: TEDtalks MIT engineer Amy Smith designs ingenious low-cost devices to tackle tough problems in developing countries. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 15:48)
Erik Olsen New York Times Human Origins On Display on: New York Times A tour of the new Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Conversations with Berkeley Faculty: Ken Goldberg on: UC Berkeley Webcasts UC Berkeley's Ken Goldberg, Professor of Industrial Engineering, joins Conversations host Harry Kreisler for a discussion of his dual careers as an industrial engineer who designs robots and an artist whose creations use robots to stimulate understanding of technology's impact.
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.
