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Radiation and Land Surface

Geographer Mathias Disney on the Sun's spectrum, albedo and why plants and animals are sensitive to a very specific part of the overall spectrum

Neuropsychologist Chris Frith on mirror neurons, compassion, and how it depends on the sentiment towards the subject and his race

The Size of the Universe

Cosmologist Martin Rees on the history of astronomy, first nanoseconds of the universe and the theory of multiple Big Bangs

Professor Michael Manga on Robert Bunsen, El Jefe, and "bubble traps"

Computer Networks in the Soviet Union

MIT Lecturer Vyacheslav Gerovitch on the idea of optimizing the Soviet economy with a computer network, the technology of datagram switching, and “considents” in the USSR

Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull modularity can help to treat craniofacial abnormalities in humans

Seismologist Richard Allen on the history of earthquakes, the forces that drive plate tectonics, and new ways of collecting data

Physicist Daniel Kleppner on Bose-Einstein condensation, atom beams, and quantum computers

Spatial Navigation

Neuroscientist Neil Burgess on the discovery of place cells, spatial memory, and experiments with functional neuroimaging

Geneticist Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii on replacing DNA with other molecules, peptide nucleic acid, and new types of life

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