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 | Volker Schomerus
Saclay
Strings in Exact Non-Compact Backgrounds
on: Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology
Dr. Volker Schomerus presented a series of 3 lectures on Strings in Exact Non-Compact Backgrounds at the PIMS Summer School on Strings, Gravity & and Cosmology. When you get to the page, click on 'videos'.
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 | Douglas. D Osheroff
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Douglas D. Oshe.roff and Robert C. Richardson, USA shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with David M. Lee, USA in 1996 'for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3
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 | Dan Gillmor
We the Media
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What happens when anyone can make and distribute news to the whole world? In this talk, columnist Dan Gillmor previews a central theme from his upcoming book. The collision of journalism and technology is transforming the roles of newsmakers, reporters, editors, and readers, as the audience becomes an active participant in the newsmaking process
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 | Richard Friend
University of Cambridge
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
In this interview Richard discusses in section one his research work and in section two: his childhood, education, the importance of fixing things, views on science and what science is, sustainability and resulting scientific challenges, religion and science, the research environment, the empowerment of having a scientific education, what makes him angry and whether or not science should be useful!
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 | William Dally
Stanford University
High Radix Interconnectcion Networks
on: Google TechTalks
High-radix interconnection networks offer significantly better cost/performance and lower latency than conventional (low-radix) topologies. Increasing radix is motivated by the exponential increase in router pin bandwidth over time. Increasing the radix or degree of a router node is a more efficient way to exploit this increasing bandwidth than making channels wider.
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 | Sue McGrath
Science Magic Show Part 2
on: sciencelive
Sue McGrath returns to the studio to explain to show Matt a variety of 'magic tricks' with a science twist. They look at inertia with bus passenegers made from eggs. Sue shows us how anyone at home can make marshmallows expand using household objects, and how a key can be made to spin with a simple battery and a magnet. Matt learns how to seperate salt and pepper using a balloon and lastly how to make a rocket out of a tea bag!
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 | Stanley Prusiner
Nobel Laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner: Sharing the Knowledge
on: UC Berkeley Webcasts
Stanley Prusiner, 1997 Nobel laureate, Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology at UC San Francisco, is the inaugural speaker in the UC Office of Research's new presentation series, Sharing the Knowledge: Exciting Research From UC's Distinguished Scholars.
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 | George Gray
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
George Gray has contributed fundamentally to the research and development of liquid crystal materials which comprise the Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) that are so essential to today's information based society. He created and systematized the liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design.
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 | Edmond Fishcer
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Edmond Fischer: Nobel Prize 1992 in Medicine / Physiology together with Edwin G. Krebs 'for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism
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 | Jeff Hawkins
The PalmPilot Story
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The late 1980s and early 1990s buzzed with corporations and startups trying to develop portable computers that used a pen as the means of interaction. By late 1993, every one of these efforts had failed. Though running out of funding, one of these startups, Palm Computing, went on to launch the Pilot organizer and Palm operating system, which triggered the handheld computing industry. In this talk, Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan discuss the roots of handheld computing, how Palm learned from failure, and the challenges of battling conventional technology wisdom. Andrea Butter, former Palm marketing executive and co-author of Piloting Palm will facilitate the discussion.
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 | Ivar Giaever
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Ivar Giaever won the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his investigations of tunneling in semiconductors and superconductors.
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 | David Spiegelhalter
Could Statistical Science have Caught Harold Shipman earlier?
on: sciencelive
The Shipman Inquiry has concluded that there were 215 'confirmed' and 45 'probable' victims of Harold Shipman, and it is natural to ask if he could have been caught earlier if some sort of statistical monitoring procedure had been in place. We show that an adapted version of an industrial quality-control technique could in theory have led to earlier detection and the saving of many lives.
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 | John Onians
Cracking the real daVinci code
on: sciencelive
Liz talks to Prof. John Onians from the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglier - the first neuro-art historian in history. He shares his theory for how neuroscience solves some of the major art history mysteries. Why were the prehistoric cave drawings more life-like than drawings for thousands of years to come? Why does the style of painting change from era to era when the world looks much the same? How do our brains shape our art? What makes an artists brain different from a lawyer's, a banker's or a scientist's? Neuroscience goes places where art history has never had access before and both disciplines are richer for the meeting.
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 | Clarie Davis
The role of materials......Behind the scenes
on: sciencelive
Claire Davis is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. Her research has concentrated on sports technology, including optimising performance of golf equipment and the link between composite microstructure and properties in vaulting poles. She has lectured extensively on the role of materials technology in sporting performance. http://www.eng.bham.ac.uk/metallurgy/people/davis.htm
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 | Rob Jackson
Duke University
NOVA scienceNOW: Fuel Cells
on: WGBH Forum
Everyone from automakers to environmentalists to politicians is touting hydrogen fuel cell cars as the wave of the future. But just how soon will that wave arrive?
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 | Ken Farquhar
The Entertaining Science Circus Show
on: sciencelive
The thrilling, hair-raising and very pink Dr Ken Farquhar brings his entertaining circus show into town. There's an array of juggling from balls to knives and we look at balance with feathers and unicycles. Matt gets to show of his rather poor yo-yoing skills as we learn about spin and circular motion. Plus learn how you can balance a spinning ball by using handy DIY equipment!!
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Speaker: Richard Feynman
Time: 50 minutes Fifty minutes of PURE Feynman! This is the original Horizon Nova interview - essential for any Feynman fan... and for everyone else too!
THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.
'The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science program I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion - it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the program... It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students.' - Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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