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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March 5, 2014
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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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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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physics
February 21, 2014
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Nobel Prize winning physicist Wolfgang Ketterle on laser and evaporative cooling, the candidates for Bose-Eins...
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deepTech
February 20, 2014
Structure and Character of the Internet
Computer scientist David Clark on security issues, the idea behind information-centric networking, and the inf...
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linguistics
February 17, 2014
Language Design
Linguist Noam Chomsky on the syntactic principle of language, the linguistic capacity of humans, and the laws ...
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Impact
February 17, 2014
Digital Humanities
Harvard Professor Jeffrey Schnapp on print as a tremendously powerful medium, dynamic media forms, and the Wor...
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physics
February 14, 2014
Quantum Noise Limit in Gravitational-Wave Detector
MIT Prof. Nergis Mavalvala on Poisson distributed noise sources, squeezed states of light, and optical cavitie...
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biology
February 11, 2014
Genetic Manipulation in Stem Cells
Biologist Rudolf Jaenisch on the problems of developmental biology, isogenic control, and homologous recombina...
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