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 | Will Noel
Walters Art Museum
The Archimides Palimpsest
on: Google TechTalks
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th Century medieval manuscript that is the subject of an ongoing technical, scientific and conservation effort at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1999, the multidisciplinary team has been disbinding, conserving, imaging, analyzing, transcribing and studying the 174 parchment folios - yielding approximately 400Gb of data to date.
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 | Werner Arber
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Swiss microbiologist, corecipient with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith (qq.v.) of the United States of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1978. All three were cited for their work in molecular genetics, specifically the discovery and application of enzymes that break the giant molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into manageable pieces
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 | Roger Kornberg
Stanford University
The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription
on: Nobelprize.org
Roger Kornberg delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2006 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Hkan Wennerstrm, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
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 | Walter Kohn
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998, for development of the density-functional theory.
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 | Bruno Albuquerque
Haiku: The Operating System
on: Google TechTalks
This is an introduction to Haiku, an open source operating system designed from the ground up for the desktop, inspired in the concepts and technologies of BeOS. The presentation will cover the concepts and features that make Haiku unique, as well as a hands on demo.
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 | Craig Mello
University of Massachusetts Medical School
RNAi and Development in C. Elegans
on: Nobelprize.org
Craig C. Mello held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2006, at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Bertil Daneholt, Chairman of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.
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 | Dax Fu
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Molecular Design of Transport Proteins - 416th Brookhaven Lecture by Dax Fu
on: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Molecular Design of a Metal Transporter. Metal transporters are proteins residing in cell membranes that keep the amount of zinc and other metals in the body in check by selecting a nutritional metal ion against a similar and much moreabundant toxic one. How transporter proteins achieve this remarkable sensitivity is one of the questions addressed by Fu in this lecture. June 21, 2006.
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 | Roy J. Glauber
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence
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 | George Smoot
University of California, Berkeley
CMB, COBE and Cosmology
on: Nobelprize.org
George Smoot held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2006, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was presented by Professor Per Carlson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
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 | Lisa Randall
Harvard University
Boston IDEAS 2005: Lisa Randall
on: WGBH Forum
Professor of physics at Harvard University, Randall discusses her research which focuses on string theory and the idea that there are multiple dimensions in space.
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 | Leo Esaki
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever for the discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. The second half of the prize was awarded to Brian David Josephson. He is known for his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited the electron tunneling phenomenon.
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 | Andrew Read
Duke University
Porpoises: The Smallest Whales
on: WGBH Forum
Dr. Read traces the history of our understanding of these enigmatic animals over the last 25 years, with an emphasis on how technological advances have helped us understand their biology.
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 | Richard Ernst
Interview
on: The Vega Science Trust
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
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 | Richard Feynman
California Institute of Technology
Lecture 4: New Queries
on: Vega Science Trust
What does it mean and where is it leading? Simply the best physics lecturer of all time, in top form.
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 | Jim Kavanagh
What are We Made Of?
on: sciencelive
Jim Kavanagh discusses what are humans are made of with Matt Cunningham. They look at various layers of the human body as Jim strips off! And show how much skin there is on one human being. They then look at the role of the stomach and see how Matt's breakfast is digested ready for absorption in the intenstine, and how it is just like sick!! And lastly they show how the small intestine sends your food to your bottom!!!
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 | Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut
The Asteroid Threat over the next 100,000 years
on: Long Now Foundation
The epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on Earth. Rusty Schweickart details graphically the results of his research on asteroid impact frequency and damage, along with what it will take to find and deflect future threatening asteroids.
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 | Dan Frankowski
University of Minnesota
Privacy Risks of Public Mentions
on: Google TechTalks
It is common to segregate different aspects in different places: you might write opinionated rants about movies in your blog under a pseudonym while participating in a forum or web site for scholarly discussion of medical ethics under your real name. However, it may be possible to link these separate identities, because the movies, journal articles, or authors you mention are from a sparse relation space whose properties (e.g., many items related to by only a few users) allow re- identification.
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 | Theodor Hansch
Max Planck Institute
Passion for Precision
on: Nobelprize.org
Theodor W. Hansch held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2005, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was presented by Professor Sune Svanberg, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
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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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