Lectures tagged "Science"


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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Conversation (Part 2)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 15, 2010
00:40:20
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium and charismatic host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, addresses the controversy surrounding the institution's reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Conversation (Part 1)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 15, 2010
00:58:43
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium and charismatic host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, addresses the controversy surrounding the institution's reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
Pinker and Goldstein: Science, Fiction, and God
Steven Pinker
February 17, 2010
01:23:00
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses mind-body problems with her husband, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.
Eternally Green: Natural Burial and New Cemetery Landscapes
Mark Harris
February 13, 2010
01:05:00
Environmental journalist Mark Harris presents a history of the changes in American burial practices, from natural burials in the 17th and early 18th century, to the beginning of the funeral industry during the Civil War, to today's modern funeral with embalming (and its toxic chemicals), metal caske
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
February 10, 2010
00:53:16
Science journalist Rebecca Skloot discusses her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
February 2, 2010
00:49:06
Award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein reads from her new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. After Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's dubbed "the atheist with a soul" and becomes a celebrity.
Health Impacts of Global Warming
Kim Knowlton
January 28, 2010
00:43:52
Kim Knowlton, DrPH, who was among the scientists who participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, discusses "Global Warming: A Matter of Health". Dr.
Arctic Warming: Risks for Methane Emissions
Ronald Prinn
January 28, 2010
00:46:39
Dr. Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, shares the result of his project measuring the rates of change in atmospheric concentrations of trace greenhouse gases.