The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla on: Google Video Nikola Tesla was a world-renowned Serb-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history, but also made bizarre claims late in his career.
James Reilly astronaut First spacewalk of Atlantis' mission on: Yahoonews After a brief delay, astronauts James Reilly and Danny Olivas got started on connecting a new, 35,000 pound segment to the space station and remove bolts and restraints holding a solar array in place on the segment.
Alfred Goldberg Harvard Medical School From New Biology to Novel Therapies on: WBGH Dr. Goldberg portrays the flavor and rewards of contemporary biomedical research and illustrates
Robert Wright Journalist Destiny has an arrow on: TEDtalks Author Robert Wright argues that history has an arrow: That humans have continued to evolve -- if not biologically, than culturally and technologically -- toward greater complexity and intelligence. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 19:54)
Scott Kraus New England Aquarium Summer Haunt: Mystery of the Lost Right Whales on: WBGH The New England Aquarium research team partnered with a Canadian National Film Board crew to conduct a search for the lost right whales of the North Atlantic aboard the 160-foot sailing vessel Sedna IV
Michael Shermer Skeptics Society Why People Believe Weird Things on: TEDtalks Michael Shermer is the founder/publisher of Skeptic Magazine, and author of several books, including Why People Believe Weird Things. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:29)
David Deutsch Oxford University The Fabric of Reality and parallel worlds on: TEDtalks Legendary physicist David Deutsch is author of The Fabric of Reality, and the leading proponent of multiverse theory, the astounding idea that our universe is constantly spawning parallel worlds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 19:45)
Brain Damage, Smoking Habits Linked on: Discovery Channel A small study of stroke victims shows how damage to a certain section of the brain could actually help people kick their cigarette habits.
Claudia Dreifus New York Times Helping Young Women in Science on: New York Times In the final part of her interview with Claudia Dreifus, Nobel Laureate Christiane NŸsslein-Volhard describes how her foundation helps young women scientists.
Clay Shirky New York University Clay Shirky, Making Digital Durable - Seminars About Long Term Thinking on: Google Video "THIS is what the Internet has been straining to become," said Clay Shirky Monday night, both joking and meaning it. He was referring to a category ("tag") which emerged from users on the photo-sharing site Flickr. The category is "cats in sinks."...Shirky pointed out that "cats in sinks" has none of the limitations of former category systems such as the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress scheme or Yahoo's hierarchical category structure. There is no need for a category "cats" with subcategory "in sinks," nor a category "sinks" with subcategory "cats in".
Ray Kurzweil kurzweilai.net Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us on: TED Talks Prolific inventor and outrageous visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why -- by the 2020s -- we will have reverse-engineered the human brain, and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. Kurzweil draws on years of research to show the speed at which technology is evolving, and projects forward into an almost unthinkable future to outline the ways we'll use technology to augment our own capabilities, forever blurring the lines between human and machine.
Erik Olsen New York Times Human Origins On Display on: New York Times A tour of the new Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Kathy Koerner Shuttle Flight Director No urgent concern over shuttle gap on: Yahoonews NASA briefers say a small gap in Atlantis' thermal blanket is not considered an urgent concern, and it's not expected to affect the mission schedule. The shuttle is due to dock with the space station tomorrow.
Robots battle it out on soccer field on: Yahoonews The Australian football team may have found a little wanting when playing in last year's World Cup, but when it comes to the robotic version of the event, they're the champions.
Neuroscience Research at Salk Institute, San Diego
Speaker: Terrence J. Sejnowski and David Eagleman Time:6:08
Terrence J. Sejnowski and David Eagleman from the Neurobiology Lab explain their research on the human brain and the perception of vision and sound, the binding problem and the flash-lag effect.
