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.
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Facts, Values and a Place for the Profound
a conversation with Sam Harris
October 3, 2008
Run Time: 1 hours 23 minutesSam Harris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason which...
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The Good Life
a conversation with philosopher Anthony Grayling
October 3, 2008
Run Time: 1 hours 06 minutesAnthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's...
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The Stuff of Steven Pinker: Language, Dignity, and Thought
September 10, 2008
Run Time: 1 hours 15 minutesSteven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...
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Education, politics, Einstein and charm
with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.
March 4, 2008
Run Time: 1 hours 23 minutesDr. Leon M. Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at...
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The joy of science, the existence of God, and Galileo's finger
with chemist Peter Atkins
November 3, 2007
Run Time: 1 hours 25 minutesPeter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including...
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Art, buckyballs and chemistry: The ABCs of discovery.
with Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto
November 2, 2007
Run Time: 1 hours 23 minutesSir Harold Kroto, Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity, in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with...
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On preaching and teaching
with philosopher Daniel Dennett
November 2, 2007
Run Time: 1 hours 19 minutesDaniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves; and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is University Professor...
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How to avoid boring people
with Nobel Laureate James D. Watson
September 24, 2007
Run Time: 1 hours 10 minutesJames D. Watson is a molecular biologist celebrated for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick for which he received the Nobel...
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Enter the "i of the vortex"
with neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás
April 17, 2007
Run Time: 1 hours 12 minutesRodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the...
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Follow the the scent of success
with Nobel Laureate Richard Axel
Run Time: 37 minutesRichard 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....
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Find out why we're addicted to love
with anthropologist Helen Fisher
June 9, 2006
Run Time: 1 hours 54 minutesHelen Fisher is an anthropologist who studies the evolution of love, sex, marriage and gender differences in humans. She is a Research Professor...
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Take the Neuron Express for a brief tour of consciousness
with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran
June 10, 2006
Run Time: 1 hours 53 minutesV.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at...
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From the engine of reason to the seat of the soul: A brain-wise conversation
with neurophilosophers Pat and Paul Churchland
June 10, 2006
Run Time: 1 hours 45 minutesPatricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice,...
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Cybernetics, hallucinations, and the mathematics of the mind
with mathematician Jack Cowan
January 17, 2006
Run Time: 57 minutesJack Cowan is Professor of Mathematics and Neurology at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned with understanding how circuits in...
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.
New Series
October 6, 2008
A sparkling and - on occasion - controversial discussion about the science behind the headlines.
