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... |
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... |
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... |
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Lovewith anthropologist Helen FisherJune 8, 2006Topics: Speakers: Helen Fisher Run Time: 43 minutes Based on groundbreaking research, Helen Fisher sheds new light on the mysteries of romantic attraction.Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who studies... |
Catriona JamiesonOctober 20, 2006Topics: Speakers: Catriona Jamieson Run Time: 15 minutes Cancer Stem Cell Research: From Bench to Bedside and Back |
Part IIIYamei Hou, Richart Potts, Panel 2September 27, 2005Topics: Speakers: Yamei Hou, Richard Potts, Parth Chauhan, Russell Ciochon, Robin Dennell, Rajeev Patnaik, Michael Petraglia, G. Phillip Rightmire, Yahdi Zaim Run Time: 1 hours 39 minutes Yamei Hou, Chinese Academy of Sciences "Earliest Hominids of China" Richard Potts, Smithsonian Institution "The Evolution of Human... |
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... |
Session 1Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, Sam Harris, Michael ShermerNovember 5, 2006Topics: Speakers: Roger Bingham, Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer Run Time: 1 hours 48 minutes Books by Lawrence Krauss: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science Atom: A... |
Session 2Neil deGrasse Tyson; Discussion: Tyson, Weinberg, Krauss, Harris, ShermerNovember 5, 2006Topics: Speakers: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Roger Bingham Run Time: 1 hours 16 minutes Books by Lawrence Krauss: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science Atom: A... |
Session 3Joan Roughgarden, Richard Dawkins, Francisco Ayala, Carolyn PorcoNovember 5, 2006Topics: Speakers: Roger Bingham, Terrence Sejnowski, Joan Roughgarden, Richard Dawkins, Francisco Ayala, Carolyn Porco Run Time: 1 hours 56 minutes Books by Terrence Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are,... |
Marco IacoboniThis is Your Brain on MoralityOctober 4, 2008Topics: Speakers: Marco Iacoboni Run Time: 22 minutes Marco Iacoboni is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the... |
Paul ZakThis is Your Brain on MoneyOctober 5, 2008Topics: Speakers: Paul Zak Run Time: 22 minutes Paul J. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. Zak also... |
Steven PinkerPublic SymposiumApril 6, 2009Topics: Speakers: Steven Pinker Run Time: 56 minutes Books by Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought, 2008 The Language Instinct, 2007 The Blank Slate, 2003 ... |
Richard DawkinsPublic SymposiumApril 6, 2009Topics: Speakers: Richard Dawkins, Paul Davies Run Time: 51 minutes
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Science Fridaywith Host Ira FlatlowApril 3, 2009Topics: Speakers: Ira Flatlow, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Turner, Brian Greene, Steven Weinberg, Ariel Anbar, Barry Blumberg, Peter Ward, Paul Davies Run Time: 1 hours 51 minutes Panel: Physicists and the Origin of the Universe Panel: Origins and Evolution of Life Books by Lawrence Krauss: ... |
Panel 2: How Common are Earth-Like Planets?Session 2: The Galaxies, Planets, and LifeApril 4, 2009Topics: Speakers: Ariel Anbar, Alex Halliday, David Stevenson, Edward Young, Steve Desch, Phil Christensen, Jade Bond Run Time: 1 hours 01 minutes
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Panel 3: How Does Life Originate and How Do We Recognize It?Session 2: The Galaxies, Planets, and LifeApril 4, 2009Topics: Speakers: Kip Hodges, Barry Blumberg, Paul Davies, Antonio Lazcano, Steve Mojzsis, Everett Shock Run Time: 58 minutes
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Panel 1: Origin and Evolution of Life and Phenotypic InnovationsSession 3: Origin of Species, Evolution, Human OriginsApril 4, 2009Topics: Speakers: Manfred Laubichler, George Poste, Doug Erwin, Kevin Peterson, Randy Nesse, Peter Ward Run Time: 56 minutes
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Panel 2: Origin and Evolution of Sociality; Panel 3: What is the Origin of Human UniquenessSession 3: Origin of Species, Evolution, Human OriginsApril 4, 2009Topics: Speakers: Jürgen Gadau, Richard Dawkins, Bert Hölldobler, Joan Strassman, David Queller, William Kimbel, Alan Rodgers, John Fleagle, Ian Tattersall, Donald Johansen, Curtis Marean Run Time: 1 hours 40 minutes
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Craig VenterPublic SymposiumApril 6, 2009Topics: Speakers: Craig Venter Run Time: 12 minutes
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David DingesTopics: Speakers: David Dinges Run Time: 1 hours 00 minutes David Dinges is a Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Pennsylvania School... |
The ant queen and epigeneticsA conversation with Shelley BergerTopics: Speakers: Shelley Berger Run Time: 1 hours 14 minutes Shelley Berger is the Daniel S. Och University Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School... |
As the worm turnsA conversation with Cynthia KenyonSeptember 23, 2009Topics: Speakers: Cynthia Kenyon Run Time: 1 hours 13 minutes Cynthia Kenyon is an American Cancer Society Professor and Director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California,... |
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... |
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... |
Sam BowlesSanta Fe InstituteTopics: Speakers: Sam Bowles Run Time: 1 hours 01 minutes Sam Bowles is the Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Economics at the... |
Harold MorowitzSanta Fe InstituteTopics: Speakers: Harold Morowitz Run Time: 42 minutes Harold Morowitz was a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards from 1951 to 1953, on the staff of the National Heart Institute from 1953 to... |
Daniel PromislowUniversity of GeorgiaTopics: Speakers: Daniel Promislow Run Time: 42 minutes Daniel Promislow is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia and a Fellow of the American Association for the... |
Michael RoseNERE, University of California, IrvineTopics: Speakers: Michael Rose Run Time: 51 minutes Michael Rose is the Director of NERE and a Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the Unversity of... |
Aubrey de GreyMethuselah FoundationTopics: Speakers: Aubrey de Grey Run Time: 46 minutes Aubrey de Grey is a biogerontologist, creator of the Methuselah Mouse Prize and Chief Science Officer of the Methuselah Foundation. His research is... |
Leonard GuarenteMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTopics: Speakers: Leonard Guarente Run Time: 1 hours 07 minutes Leonard Guarente is the Novartis Professor of Biology and Director of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at the Massachusetts Institute of... |
Aviv BergmanAlbert Einstein College of MedicineTopics: Speakers: Aviv Bergman Run Time: 44 minutes Aviv Bergman is is the founding Professor and University Chairman of the Department of Systems and Computational Biology at Albert Einstein College... |
George MartinThe Aging-Disease RelationshipFebruary 5, 2010Topics: Speakers: George Martin George Martin is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of the... |
The Rightful Place with Michael CrowArizona State UniversityTopics: Speakers: Michael Crow Michael Crow is the 16th President of Arizona State University. He has established a number of important interdisciplinary research initiatives... |
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 ... |
Dame Linda PartridgeUniversity College LondonTopics: Speakers: Linda Partridge Linda Partridge has used the model organism Drosophila to investigate the evolution of a wide variety of physiological traits involved in adaptation.... |
David GemsUniversity College LondonTopics: Speakers: David Gems David is a Reader in the Biology of Ageing, and a Deputy Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing. Much of his work uses C. elegans to understand... |
Andrew DillinThe Salk InstituteTopics: Speakers: Andrew Dillin Andrew Dillin is an Associate Professor and Pioneer Developmental Chair in the Molecular and Cell BIology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for... |
Gary CottrellUniversity of California, San DiegoTopics: Speakers: Gary Cottrell Gary Cottrell is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San DIego. His research is focused... |
Gordon LithgowThe Buck InstituteJune 7, 2010Topics: Speakers: Gordon Lithgow Gordon Lithgow is a Professor and the head of the Lithgow Lab at the Buck Institute for Age Research. His research is focused on the relationship... |
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