American Physics in the Cold War
Physicist David Kaiser on the US education funding course, the impact of politics on physics, and connections ...
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physics
April 10, 2014
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history
March 21, 2014
Anthropology in Afghan Studies
Anthropologist Thomas Barfield on the form of anarchism in Afghanistan, "the little brother complex" in Tajiki...
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Space
March 19, 2014
Search for Extraterrestrial Genomes
Astrobiologist Christopher Carr on the Late Heavy Bombardment, deinococcus radiodurans, and the polymerase cha...
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Impact
March 13, 2014
Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age
Professor Mitchel Resnick on ways to transform education, the Lego Mindstorms, and the idea of constructionist...
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deepTech
March 12, 2014
The Role of Measurement Tools in Science
Physicist Ronald Walsworth on quantum mechanical transitions inside atoms, blue and red shift for GPS, and use...
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biology
March 5, 2014
MicroRNA studies
Neurologist Anna Krichevsky of Harvard University on the different roles of microRNAs, pseudogenes, and how mR...
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history
March 5, 2014
Construction of the Soviet Cosmonaut
MIT Lecturer Vyacheslav Gerovitch on Sergei Korolev’s design bureau, the leadership of the Soviet cosmonauts, ...
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biology
March 4, 2014
The Role of Mitochondria in Aging and Disease
Biologist David Sinclair on alphaproteobacteria, reactive oxygen species, and why the nucleus and the mitochon...
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deepTech
March 3, 2014
General Anesthesia
Professor Emery Brown of MIT on what has to be monitored during anesthesia, side effects of inhalational anest...
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Impact
February 26, 2014
Changing Nature of Knowledge in the Internet Epoch
Harvard Senior Researcher David Weinberger on how filtering on the Internet is organized, and the web of knowl...
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biology
February 25, 2014
Genetics of Color Adaptation
Prof. Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University on beneficial mutations, wild mice as a model system, and patterns o...
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physics
February 24, 2014
Our Mathematical Universe
Physicist Max Tegmark on the Doppler effect, redshift, nuclear fusion, and what happened 13.8 billion years ag...
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