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 | National Science Foundation
Grand Opening of the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
on: National Science Foundation
From the Pacific coast to our nation's interior, more than 75 million Americans in 39 states live in towns and cities at risk for earthquake devastation. While scientists are digging into the origins of seismic waves, engineers are pushing the boundaries of design to create structures that remain safe when an earthquake ultimately surfaces. On Nov. 15, 2004, the National Science Foundation hosted the grand opening of a research network that addresses this important design need--the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
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 | H.K.D.H Bhadeshia
Cambridge University
Elementary Thermodynamic Functions
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Thermodynamic functions such as heat capacity, internal energy, enthalpy entropy, free energy are introduced.
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 | Robert Walsh
Living with a Star-an encounter with Robert Walsh
on: sciencelive
Currently Robert is a Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics and Mathematics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. His area of research is Solar Physics, where he uses space-based solar observatories (solar observing satellites) to monitor our closest star and then set-up sophisticated super-computer simulations to try and reproduce what we observe. He is married to Heather and has two children, Matthew (aged three) and Emma (aged 6 weeks).
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 | Becky Read
Cartoon Science
on: sciencelive
We all know that much of what cartoon characters do can't happen in real life - can you pop up uninjured after being squashed flat by a huge blacksmith's anvil? But why is that? Becky brings along lots of cartoon characters and demonstrations (including a proper ACME plunger) to explore how real science is different from cartoon science.
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 | Vadim Pittsyn
Brookhaven National Laboratory
405th Brookhaven Lecture by Vadim Ptitsyn
on: Brookhaven National Laboratory
E-RHIC - Future Electron-Ion Collider at BNL. While RHIC scientists continue their quest to look deep into nuclear phenomena resulting from collisions of ion beams and beams of polarized protons, new design work is under way for a possible extension of RHIC to include e-RHIC, a 10-billion electron volt, high-intensity polarized proton beam.
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 | Michael Pollan
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire
on: UC Berkeley Webcasts
Michael Pollan, contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and author, has done a range of work in journalism, environmentalism, and architecture. Pollan, originally from Long Island, earned his college degrees at Bennington College, Oxford University (Mansfield College), and Columbia University, where he received a masters in English in 1981. He served for many years as executive editor for Harper's Magazine and writes a column on architecture for House & Garden.
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 | John Cornforth
Interview
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Chemistry Nobel prize winner 1975 for work on enzyme-catalyzed reactions
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 | Roy Gould
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Who Needs Physics?
on: WGBH Forum
Physics - the field that underlies every other field of science, from archaeology (think carbon dating) to virology (think electron microscopes). How will physics help reveal the true nature of the cosmos?
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 | Ian Swanson
California Institute of Technology
Ian Swanson: Tangled Physics: Superstring Theory and the AdS/CFT Conjecture
on: Caltech
Ian Swanson, a graduate student in physics at Caltech, discusses the quantum field theory is known as the Standard Model of particle physics, providing the most accurate physical predictions in the history of science. Physicists must now unite the Standard Model with the tenets of general relativity, and string theory is arguably the most promising candidate of the last 50 years.
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 | Matthew Strassler
University of Washington
Confinement and String Theory: The Duality Cascade and its Applications
on: Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology
Dr. Matthew Strassler presented a series of 4 lectures on Confinement and String Theory: The Duality Cascade and its Applications at the PIMS Summer School on Strings, Gravity & and Cosmology. When you get to the page, click on 'videos'.
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 | Al Gore
Global Climate Change
on: UC Berkeley Webcasts
Al Gore speaks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, following a presentation on global climate change.
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 | David Charbonneau
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Planets R Us
on: WGBH Forum
The diversity of planets detected around our neighboring stars has taken astronomers completely by surprise.
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 | Judah Folkman
Harvard Medical School
The discovery of angiogenesis inhibitors: A new class of drugs
on: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The process of angiogenesis--the growth of new capillary blood vessels--is now recognized as a powerful control point in cancer. The hypothesis that tumors are angiogenesis-dependent has been confirmed by genetic methods and has stimulated angiogenesis research in many laboratories. As a result, angiogenesis inhibitors have emerged as a new class of drugs.
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 | Barry Marshall
NHMRC Laboratory, University of Western Australia
Helicobacter Connections
on: Nobelprize.org
Barry J. Marshall held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2005, at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Bo Angelin, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.
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 | Richard Axel
Columbia University
Interview
on: Nobelprize.org
Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck, December 11, 2004. Interviewer is Peter Sylwan, science writer. The Laureates talk about the big event of the Prize Award Ceremony, the genomes of the nose (1:40), the importance of the sensor organ (3:25), the smell of emotions (10:23), the mapping out of the molecules of sense inside the brain (14:36) and challenges for neuroscience in the future (18:22)
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 | Robert Hecht-Nielsen
UCSD
The Mechanism of Thought
on: Google Video
Lecture 3 of 12 of IBM Research's Almaden Institute Conference on Cognitive Computing
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 | F. Sherwood Rowland
Interview
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Recorded in 2006. Sherwood Rowland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of Ozone.'
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 | Gaurav Oberoi
Groom
BillMonk.com
on: Google TechTalks
The web 2.0 bubble inflates as geeks pump out an astonishing number of web-based solutions to daily problems. But a lot of these solutions only appeal to a small niche. What goes into a service that appeals to a broad range of people? How can it start and grow without a generous helping of capital? The two guys behind BillMonk.com will share their views from the trenches.
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 | Michael Pollan
Berkeley Writers at Work: Michael Pollan
on: UC Berkeley Webcasts
Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and the author of three books: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World; A Place of My Own; and Second Nature. For many years he served as Executive Editor of Harper's Magazine. His writing has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States.
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 | Thomas Sterling
Louisiana State University
Thomas Sterling: From PCs to Petaflops-The Future of Really Big Computers
on: Caltech
Thomas Sterling, a visiting associate in the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech, gave this talk as part of the Watson Lecture Series. Semiconductor technology has had an unprecedented increase in computational power in the last decade. Sterling discussed the range of alternative supercomputer architectures that hold the promise of future breakthroughs in computational science and supercomputing.
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 | Ashoke Sen
Harish-Chandra Institute
Tachyon Dynamics in Open String Theory
on: Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology
Dr. Ashoke Sen presented a series of 4 lectures on Tachyon Dynamics in Open String Theory at the PIMS Summer School on Strings, Gravity & and Cosmology. When you get to the page, click on 'videos'.
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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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