The Science Studio is a series of entertaining and informative encounters between leading thinkers, primarily from the sciences, and TSN Director Roger Bingham.
The unconstrained conversations roam freely over the subject's life and times, delights and despairs, beliefs and bewilderments.
Because they are not edited for time, the episodes vary in length. Some take place in front of an audience.
Future Tense?A conversation between Lord Martin Rees, Terry Sejnowski, Larry Smarr, and Roger BinghamAugust 30, 2014Speakers: Roger Bingham, Martin Rees, Terry Sejnowski, Larry Smarr Run Time: 38 minutes In this edition of The Science Studio, Roger Bingham discusses the scientific risks and rewards of possible futures with Lord Martin Rees, past... |
Labeling and tracking cellsEric AhrensOctober 14, 2013Topics: Speakers: Eric Ahrens Run Time: 48 minutes Eric Ahrens discusses transition from the physical sciences to the biological sciences and his work adapting MRI to track groups of cells, e.g. stem... |
Screening drugs to treat long QT syndrome, in the age of induced pluripotent stem cellsRobert Kass and Mark MercolaOctober 16, 2013Topics: Speakers: Robert Kass, Mark Mercola Run Time: 52 minutes Mark Mercola and Robert Kass discuss their collaborative work screening existing drugs to treat long QT syndrome. Their collaboration combines Dr.... |
A BRAIN Initiative update with Terry SejnowskiMay 6, 2016Speakers: Terry Sejnowski Run Time: 12 minutes Since President Obama announced the BRAIN Initiative in April 2013, this Grand Challenge has been a powerful driver of interdisciplinary efforts to... |
The unique interaction between dogs and humansA conversation with Juliane KaminskiOctober 8, 2013Topics: Speakers: Juliane Kaminski Run Time: 45 minutes Juliane Kaminski talks about her research exploring the interactions between dogs and human and comparative cognition between dogs, apes, and... |
What infants understandElizabeth SpelkeOctober 8, 2013Topics: Speakers: Elizabeth Spelke Run Time: 45 minutes Elizabeth Spelke discusses her career exploring what infants understand, from abstract concepts like geometry and numbers to emerging research on how... |
DNA@60A Conversation with James WatsonMarch 18, 2013Topics: Speakers: James D. Watson Run Time: 1 hours 19 minutes A moment from this interview where Watson explains why the book had to be written here. On 25 April, 1953, Nature published "A Structure... |
DNA@60: The Book Had to Be WrittenA moment with James WatsonMarch 18, 2013Topics: Speakers: James D. Watson Run Time: 01 minutes James Watson explains why he wrote The Double Helix. An excerpt from this interview.On 25 April, 1953, Nature published "A Structure for... |
Stem Cell Research: The Teenage YearsEvan SnyderTopics: Speakers: Evan Snyder Run Time: 54 minutes Evan Snyder surveys the history of stem cell research into its current "teenage" years, in which the answers are less easy and clean cut.... |
Staying Hungry for LifeTamas HorvathTopics: Speakers: Tamas Horvath Run Time: 31 minutes Tamas Horvath explains his research into chronic diseases and their timelines as well as the research on life extension. He discuss the current... |
Mitochondria and AgingGerry ShadelTopics: Speakers: Gerry Shadel Run Time: 30 minutes Gerry Shadel describes the basics of mitochondrial function and mitochondrial interaction with aging through signaling pathways.Gerry Shadel studies... |
Botanicals and the Pathways of AgingMahtab JafariTopics: Speakers: Mahtab Jafari Run Time: 31 minutes Mahtab Jafari discusses therapeutic intervention on aging pathways and her work determining the mechanism of botanicals which her group has shown to... |
How Neurons are BornFred ‘Rusty’ GageDecember 22, 2011Speakers: Fred Gage Run Time: 1 hours 05 minutes Rusty Gage describes the history of the discovery of adult neurogenesis, including his group's role in it, his current work studying neurogenesis... |
The Long Term Payoff of ScienceGene YeoDecember 9, 2011Speakers: Gene Yeo Run Time: 40 minutes Gene Yeo discusses his career path which has taken him from a Chemical Engineering and Economics major to the Singapore military to studying... |
Viruses: A Key to Understanding and Treating CancerClodagh O'SheaTopics: Speakers: Clodagh O'Shea Run Time: 42 minutes Clodagh O'Shea talks with Roger Bingham about what viruses have taught us about the genetics of cancer and ways of using that knowledge to create... |
Viruses: The Common Cold to HIVJohn YoungDecember 9, 2011Topics: Speakers: John Young John Young talks with Roger Bingham about the difference between the common cold virus and HIV and why finding treatments for viruses is a moving... |
Perception and the Beholder's ShareTom AlbrightTopics: Speakers: Tom Albright Run Time: 1 hours 05 minutes Tom Albright talks with Roger Bingham about visual perception, his research into how cortex represents features from images, what schizophrenia can... |
A Neuroscientist's Neuroscientist Talks ScienceChuck StevensTopics: Speakers: Chuck Stevens Run Time: 57 minutes "Neuroscientist's Neuroscientist" Chuck Stevens talks with Roger Bingham about his trajectory through research science, his interest in... |
Leaning In with Sheryl SandburgA conversation about digital culture and women in science and technologySpeakers: Sheryl Sandberg Run Time: 12 minutes Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook, has a new book - Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead - which is generating controversy.... |
Understanding the Human BrainTerry SejnowskiNovember 7, 2011Topics: Speakers: Terry Sejnowski Run Time: 31 minutes Understanding the Human Brain was the subject of an editorial in Science, 4 November 2011, written by Terry Sejnowski and Sydney Brenner. It is also... |
Vicious cycles that impair sleepCharles CzeislerTopics: Speakers: Charles Czeisler Run Time: 43 minutes Charles Czeisler discusses his work improving the Boston Celtics' sleep cycles, when students school should start based on age, sleep... |
Patricia ChurchlandUniversity of California, San DiegoApril 19, 2011Topics: Speakers: Patricia Churchland Patricia Churchland discusses her new book, Braintrust, with Roger Bingham at the Estancia Hotel in La Jolla, CA. For more of Patricia... |
Patricia Churchland and Anne ChurchlandUniversity of California, San Diego and Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryMarch 27, 2011Speakers: Patricia Churchland, Anne Churchland Run Time: 57 minutes Roger Bingham sits down with Patricia and Anne Churchland to discuss Anne's research on the neuroscience of decision making and Patricia's new book,... |
Partha MitraCold Spring Harbor LaboratoryMarch 30, 2011Speakers: Partha Mitra Run Time: 36 minutes Partha Mitra is a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His work involves developing an understanding of the behavior of complex biological... |
Martin ChalfieColumbia UniversityMarch 31, 2011Speakers: Martin Chalfie Run Time: 56 minutes Martin Chalfie is the William R Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology at Columbia University. His group uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans... |
Wendy SuzukiNew York UniversitySpeakers: Wendy Suzuki Run Time: 52 minutes Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University. She studies organization of memory in the medial... |
Andre FentonNew York University and SUNY Downstate Medical CenterMarch 29, 2011Speakers: Andre Fenton Run Time: 53 minutes Andre Fenton is Professor of Neural Science at the Center for Neural Science at New York University. He is also an Associate Professor of Physiology... |
The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert's GodA Conversation about Communicating ScienceJanuary 20, 2011Speakers: Neil deGrasse Tyson Run Time: 57 minutes Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, host of the PBS series NOVA Science Now and co-host... |
The multiverse as a block of Swiss cheese, strings and things, branes and the brainA conversation with Brian Greene about The Hidden RealityJanuary 21, 2011Speakers: Brian Greene Run Time: 55 minutes Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University. He is recognized for a number of... |
Meghan GroomeThe New York Academy of SciencesJanuary 18, 2011Topics: Speakers: Meghan Groome Run Time: 53 minutes Meghan Groome attended Colorado College and graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University. She served as Senior Policy Analyst at the... |
Ellis RubinsteinPresident and CEO of The New York Academy of SciencesJanuary 18, 2011Topics: Speakers: Ellis Rubinstein Run Time: 58 minutes Ellis Rubinstein has been President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) since 2002. He came to the Academy after more than 13 years... |
Sydney Brenner, Part 1Salk InstituteDecember 28, 2010Speakers: Sydney Brenner Run Time: 48 minutes This is Part 1 of a two part conversation. A clip from the conversation and Part 2 are also available. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished... |
Sydney Brenner, Part 2Salk InstituteDecember 28, 2010Speakers: Sydney Brenner Run Time: 52 minutes This is Part 2 of a two part conversation. A clip from the conversation and Part 1 are also available. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow... |
Science requires the ability to go through brick wallsA moment with Sydney BrennerDecember 28, 2010Speakers: Sydney Brenner Run Time: 02 minutes This is clip from a two part conversation. Part 1 and Part 2 of the conversation are also available. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow of... |
A conversation with John GurdonCongratulations to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka on winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in MedicineDecember 8, 2010Topics: Speakers: John Gurdon Run Time: 54 minutes John Gurdon is a Distinguished Group Leader and an Emeritus Professor in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University. He is a Foreign Associate of... |
Matthew WalkerUniversity of California, BerkeleyAugust 3, 2010Speakers: Matthew Walker Matt Walker is the Principal Investigator of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of California,... |
Loren FrankUniversity of California, San FranciscoAugust 2, 2010Topics: Speakers: Loren Frank Loren Frank is a Principal Investigator in the Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. His lab's research is focused... |
Naveen JainInteliusAugust 3, 2010Topics: Speakers: Naveen Jain Naveen Jain is Co-Founder and CEO of Intelius, Co-Chairman of Education and Global Development at the X Prize Foundation where he is focused on... |
Celebrating Science with Scientific AmericanA Conversation with Mariette DiChristinaSpeakers: Mariette DiChristina Run Time: 1 hours 02 minutes August 28, 1845 was the date of the first issue of the oldest continuously published magazine in the US. Take a guess. Harper's maybe? No, that was... |
A Conversation with Alison GopnikUniversity of California, BerkeleyAugust 2, 2010Speakers: Alison Gopnik Alison Gopnik is a Professor of Psychology and an affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is... |
Life's RewardsLoren FrankAugust 2, 2010Speakers: Loren Frank This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Loren Frank is a Principal Investigator in the Department of Physiology at the University of... |
Home SchoolingNaveen JainAugust 3, 2010Speakers: Naveen Jain This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Naveen Jain is Co-Founder and CEO of Intelius, Co-Chairman of Education and Global Development... |
Knitting Up the Raveled Sleeve of CareMatthew WalkerSeptember 2, 2010Topics: Speakers: Matthew Walker This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Matt Walker is the Principle Investigator of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory in the... |
The R&D DivisionAlison GopnikAugust 2, 2010Topics: Speakers: Alison Gopnik This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Alison Gopnik is a Professor of Psychology and an affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the... |
Called by the UniverseA conversation with
July 23, 2009 |
Nicola ClaytonUniversity of CambridgeSpeakers: Nicola Clayton Nicola Clayton is a Professor of Comparative Cognition, Fellow of the Royal Society, Departmental Graduate Tutor and Chair of the Graduate Education... |
Science, Society and the Meaning of LifeLord Martin Rees, Patricia Smith Churchland and AC GraylingMay 22, 2010Speakers: Lord Martin Rees, Patricia Churchland, AC Grayling Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the title of ... |
Lucy HawkingAuthorMay 22, 2010Speakers: Lucy Hawking Lucy Hawking has worked extensively as a journalist for many British newspapers including The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Times. She has... |
AC GraylingUniversity of LondonJanuary 12, 2010Topics: Speakers: AC Grayling AC Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has... |
A Conversation between Patricia Smith Churchland and Walter Sinnott-ArmstrongUniversity of California, San Diego and Duke UniversitySpeakers: Patricia Churchland, Walter Sinnott-Arstrong Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand... |
Patricia Smith Churchland and Molly CrockettUniversity of California, San Diego and University of CambridgeSpeakers: Patricia Churchland, Molly Crockett Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand... |
Terry MaroneyVanderbilt University Law SchoolTopics: Speakers: Terry Maroney Terry Maroney is an Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research interests include criminal law, juvenile justice,... |
Owen Jones and René MaroisVanderbilt UniversityTopics: Speakers: Rene Marois, Owen Jones Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral... |
Patricia Smith Churchland and Mark ChurchlandUC San Diego and Stanford UniversityTopics: Speakers: Patricia Churchland, Mark Churchland Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand ... |
Glenn Cohen and Adam KolberHarvard University and University of San DiegoTopics:
Speakers: Glenn Cohen, Adam Kolber Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Co-Director of the Petri-Flom center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and... |
Jay Aronson, Hank Greely, and Natalie RamCarnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and Georgetown UniversityTopics: Speakers: Jay Aronson, Hank Greely, Natalie Ram Jay Aronson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research is focues on the interactions of... |
Owen JonesVanderbilt University Law SchoolTopics:
Speakers: Owen Jones Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral... |
Designing woman and women in scienceA conversation with Cynthia BreazealNovember 3, 2009Topics: Speakers: Cynthia Breazeal Run Time: 1 hours 09 minutes Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and Director of... |
The Greatest Show on EarthA conversation with Richard DawkinsTopics: Speakers: Richard Dawkins Run Time: 1 hours 02 minutes *Apologies for the technical difficulties. The camera was kinder to the Scripps Pier (which is rather lovely) than it was to Bingham or... |
Nita FarahanyVanderbilt University Law SchoolTopics: Speakers: Nita Farahany Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches and writes about the intersection of criminal... |
A Continuation of Our Conversation with Nita FarahanyVanderbilt University Law SchoolTopics: Speakers: Nita Farahany Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches and writes about the intersection of... |
Steven PinkerHarvard UniversitySeptember 24, 2009Topics:
Speakers: Steven Pinker Run Time: 34 minutes Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he... |
Haplotypes, Lassa fever, and a little rock 'n rollA conversation with Pardis SabetiTopics: Speakers: Pardis Sabeti Run Time: 1 hours 00 minutes Pardis Sabeti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard... |
Colin Blakemore Take 5Topics: Speakers: Colin Blakemore Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke... |
Jessica GreenUniversity of OregonJuly 21, 2009Topics: Speakers: Jessica Green Run Time: 25 minutes Jessica Green is an applied and theoretical ecologist and Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene. She is... |
David GrossKITPSeptember 11, 2009Topics:
Speakers: David Gross Run Time: 1 hours 20 minutes David Gross is a particle physicist and string theorist and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Frank Wiczek and David Politzer... |
Dan SchragHarvard UniversitySpeakers: Dan Schrag Run Time: 1 hours 26 minutes Dan Schrag is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He studies climate and... |
Colin BlakemoreTopics: Speakers: Colin Blakemore Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke... |
From Eternity to HereA Conversation with Sean CarrollTopics: Speakers: Sean Carroll Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and Senior Research Associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research is focused... |
Lord Martin ReesPresident of the Royal SocietyTopics: Speakers: Martin Rees Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the title of... |
Our conversation with Lord Martin Rees continuesPresident of the Royal SocietyTopics: Speakers: Martin Rees This is a continuation of the conversation with Lord Martin Rees, Science Studio Guest. Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and... |
Lord Martin Rees Take 5Topics: Speakers: Lord Martin Rees Lord Martin Rees five minute short |
Terrence SejnowskiSpeakers: Terrence Sejnowski Run Time: 20 minutes Terrence Sejnowski is an HHMI investigator, the Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational... |
A Continuation of our Conversation with Colin BlakemoreSpeakers: Colin Blakemore Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke... |
Colin Blakemore ConinuedPart 3Speakers: Colin Blakemore Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke... |
Ice, Snow, Water and the End the World as We Know ItA conversation with Lord Julian HuntMay 7, 2009Topics: Speakers: Julian Hunt Run Time: 1 hours 00 minutes Filmed at Calit2 Studios at UC San Diego. *Do not adjust your set! Due to technical difficulties some of the coloring is off in this video -... |
The Baroness, Consciousness, and the TwitterverseA Conversation with Susan GreenfieldMay 22, 2009Topics: Speakers: Susan Greenfield Run Time: 48 minutes Baroness Susan Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and a member of the House of Lords. She is known as a popularizer of science,... |
From grandmother cells to tales of a great-grandfathera conversation with Horace BarlowMay 15, 2009Topics: Speakers: Horace Barlow Run Time: 1 hours 12 minutes Horace Barlow is a British visual neuroscientist who has done much work towards understanding human vision and consciousness, beginning with his... |
Facts, values and a place for the profounda conversation with Sam HarrisOctober 3, 2008Topics: Speakers: Sam Harris Run Time: 1 hours 24 minutes Sam Harris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason which won the 2005 PEN/Martha... |
The Good Lifea conversation with philosopher Anthony GraylingOctober 3, 2008Topics: Speakers: AC Grayling Run Time: 1 hours 06 minutes Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has... |
The stuff of Steven Pinker: Language, dignity, and thoughtSeptember 10, 2008Topics: Speakers: Steven Pinker Run Time: 1 hours 15 minutes Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he... |
Education, Politics, Einstein and Charma conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.March 4, 2008Topics: Speakers: Leon Lederman Run Time: 1 hours 23 minutes Leon M. Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at Illinois... |
The joy of science, the existence of God, and Galileo's fingerwith chemist Peter AtkinsNovember 3, 2007Topics: Speakers: Peter Atkins Run Time: 1 hours 25 minutes Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including... |
Art, buckyballs and chemistry: The ABCs of discovery.with Nobel Laureate Sir Harold KrotoNovember 2, 2007Topics: Speakers: Harold Kroto Run Time: 1 hours 23 minutes Sir Harold Kroto, Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity, in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert... |
On preaching and teachingwith philosopher Daniel DennettNovember 2, 2007Topics: Speakers: Daniel Dennett Run Time: 1 hours 19 minutes Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves; and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is University Professor and Austin B.... |
How to avoid boring peoplewith Nobel Laureate James D. WatsonSeptember 24, 2007Topics: Speakers: James D. Watson Run Time: 1 hours 10 minutes James D. Watson is a molecular biologist celebrated for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick for which he received the Nobel... |
Enter the "i of the vortex"with neuroscientist Rodolfo LlinásApril 17, 2007Topics: Speakers: Rodolfo Llinás Run Time: 1 hours 12 minutes Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the... |
Follow the the scent of successwith Nobel Laureate Richard AxelTopics: Speakers: Richard Axel Run Time: 37 minutes Richard Axel is a neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 with Linda Buck for his work on the olfactory system. He... |
Find out why we're addicted to lovewith anthropologist Helen FisherJune 9, 2006Topics: Speakers: Helen Fisher Run Time: 1 hours 54 minutes Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who studies the evolution of love, sex, marriage and gender differences in humans. She is a Research Professor and... |
Take the Neuron Express for a brief tour of consciousnesswith neuroscientist V.S. RamachandranJune 10, 2006Topics: Speakers: V.S. Ramachandran Run Time: 1 hours 53 minutes V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the... |
From the engine of reason to the seat of the soul: A brain-wise conversationwith neurophilosophers Pat and Paul ChurchlandJune 10, 2006Topics: Speakers: Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland Run Time: 1 hours 45 minutes Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice,... |
Cybernetics, hallucinations, and the mathematics of the mindwith mathematician Jack CowanJanuary 17, 2006Topics: Speakers: Jack Cowan Run Time: 57 minutes Jack Cowan is Professor of Mathematics and Neurology at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned with understanding how circuits in the... |