Videos tagged with "politics"

a conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.

• Einstein,
• charm,
• education,
• politics

Leon M. Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at Illinois...

Introduction: This is Your Brain on Politics

• Policies,
• politics

Roger Bingham is Co-founder and Director of The Science Network. He is also a member of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk...

This is Your Brain on Politics

• Climate Science,
• Deficit Model,
• Greenhouse Gas,
• Public Education,
• climate change,
• politics

Naomi Oreskes is Provost of Sixth College, Professor of History and Science Studies and Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at UC San Diego and one of...

This is Your Brain on Politics

• Bioethics,
• Communication,
• Engaging the Public,
• Global Warming,
• Science Communication,
• Stem Cells,
• politics,
• science literacy

Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing...

This is Your Brain on Politics

• Carbon Dioxide,
• Climate,
• Marine Science,
• Ocean Acidity,
• politics

Tony Haymet is the tenth director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Haymet also serves as UC San Diego's Vice Chancellor for...

Mooney, Kirshenbaum, Haymet

• Global Warming,
• Jonathan Haidt,
• politics,
• science literacy

Panel: This is Your Brain on PoliticsWith Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, and Tony HaymetModerated by Roger Bingham Books by Chris Mooney: ...

Introduction: This is Your Brain on Morality

• Candles,
• Ideology,
• Neurobiology,
• This is Your Brain on Morality,
• politics

Roger Bingham is Co-founder and Director of The Science Network. He is also a member of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk...

This is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Drugs,
• Medical Politics,
• NH,
• Policy,
• Public Policy,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• politics

Beatrice Golomb is Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, best known for her work on Gulf War Illness (she has testified before Congress,...

This Is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Agnosticism,
• Atheism,
• Common Sense,
• Culture,
• Media,
• Television,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• politics,
• religion

Sir Harold Kroto is Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. In 1996, he was awarded the...

This is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Culture,
• Media,
• Science Writing,
• Science and Journalism,
• Scientific Trends,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• Work Force,
• politics

Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing...

This is Your Brain on Politics, continued

• Policy,
• Public Policy,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• education,
• politics,
• science education,
• science literacy

Leon Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at Illinois...

Sinnott-Armstrong, Farahany, Bingham, Kirshenbaum & Krauss

• Crime,
• Criminal Law,
• Interrogation,
• Law,
• neuroscience,
• politics,
• science education

Neurolaw & NeuropoliticsA discussion with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College), Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt University), Sheril Kirshenbaum...

Krauss, Lederman, Mooney, Kirshenbaum, Shermer, Golomb, Kroto

• Communication,
• Culture,
• Media,
• This is Your Brain on Politics,
• politics,
• science education

Panel: This is Your Brain on Politics, continuedWith Lawrence Krauss, Leon Lederman, Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michael Shermer, Beatrice...

a conversation with philosopher Anthony Grayling

• Ethics,
• belief,
• philosophy,
• politics,
• religion,
• the good life

Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has...

with Chris Mooney

• Debate on science,
• Society,
• politics,
• science education,
• science literacy

Filmed at Warwick's in La Jolla, California.Unscientific America discusses the state of science in the United States, where "for every five...

with K.C. Cole

• Culture,
• Exploratorium,
• Frank Oppenheimer,
• Physics,
• discovery,
• politics,
• science education

Filmed at Warwick's in La Jolla, California.Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens follows the life of Frank Oppenheimer, who grew up, like his...

A conversation with Paul F. Glenn

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's,
• Epigenetics,
• Funding,
• Glenn Foundation,
• genetics,
• politics

Paul F. Glenn is a philanthropist and founder of The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, which began The Glenn Consortium for Research in Aging,...

Harvard University

• Creation,
• Culture,
• Global Warming,
• Ignorance,
• Institution,
• Public Policy,
• politics,
• religion,
• science literacy

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...

Harvard Medical School

• Aging,
• Cancer,
• Clinical Trials,
• Developmental Biology,
• Epigenetics,
• Lifespan,
• Methuselah Foundation,
• Mutation,
• genetics,
• politics

Gary Ruvkun is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and his lab uses molecular genetics, genomics and C. elegans to study and understand...

President of the Royal Society

• Advice,
• Culture,
• Energy,
• Global Warming,
• Globalization,
• The Rightful Place,
• politics

  Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the...

Harvard University

• Communication,
• Constituency,
• Global Warming,
• Journalist,
• Knowledge,
• Nature,
• Reality,
• The Rightful Place,
• Truth,
• politics

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...

• Civil Rights,
• Learning,
• Public Policy,
• Public School,
• Sports,
• Technology,
• The Rightful Place,
• Timing,
• education,
• politics

Brains R Us brings together researchers, educators, policymakers, parents, and students in a town hall forum to discuss the state of the science of...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Biology,
• Health care,
• Legal Analysis,
• Plan,
• Prediction,
• Relationship,
• The Rightful Place,
• politics

Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Behavior,
• Brain Imaging,
• Cognitive Science,
• Humanity,
• Incarceration,
• Law,
• Lie Detection,
• MRI,
• Model,
• Steroids,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy,
• politics

Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral...

University of Brighton

• Aging,
• Gerontology,
• Hormones,
• Lifespan,
• Senescence,
• politics

Richard Faragher is Professor of Biological Gerontology at the University of Brighton and is Chair of both the British Society for Research on Ageing...