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In a special video address, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the creation of the NeXXt Scholars Initiative, an innovative education initiative designed to encourage women from predominantly Muslim countries to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers at U.S. women's colleges.
Scientific organizers, speakers, and participants at the New York Academy of Sciences' June 2011 conference on Chronic Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain talk to the Pain Channel about the importance of scientific conferences such as this one in fostering information sharing and collaborations to advance our understanding of the etiology, mechanism(s), and treatment of chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Highlights of this conference, presented by The New York Academy of Sciences, MedImmune, and Grünenthal Gmbh, will be published shortly as 1) an online Meeting Report in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and as 2) a comprehensive multimedia report (eBriefing) with a selection of speakers' slides and audio.
At the Fourth Annual Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics conference, jointly presented by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the New York Academy of Sciences in fall, 2010, Michael J. Fox, actor, advocate and founder of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, thanked prominent Parkinson's researchers gathered at the Academy and encouraged them to continue their vital work towards a cure for Parkinson's.
At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference,
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and 2010 Blavatnik Award winner, Daniela Schiller, talks to Roger Bingham about how she got into science and reviews research in modifying fear memories.
At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference, speaker Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Chair in Audiology at Northwestern University, discusses the long lasting effects that musical experience has on nervous system development which impact very basic communication skills.
At the NYAS March 2011 Music, Science and Medicine conference, scientific co-organizer, Joseph LeDoux, Director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety, talks about his "heavy mental" band, the Amygdaloids, which plays all original songs about mind and brain disorders. LeDoux discusses his research into fear and emotion, what the Amygdala does and what functional imaging tells us.
National Institute on Aging Deputy Director Marie Bernard explains why the aging of America over the coming decades will place unprecedented strains on the U.S. healthcare system.
Nobel laureate Peter Agre surveys some examples of pressing problems in the United States and around the world arising from threats to water supplies.
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As internet dating gains popularity, millions of singles are turning over huge amounts of personal data to computers, hoping that an algorithm will find them the perfect mate. OK Cupid's data blogger Christian Rudder explains how all that data can reveal some interesting—and often funny—facts about the sex lives of humans online.
Podcast
December 26, 2011
In the world of online gaming, natural reality often blends and blurs with virtual reality. This November, anthropologist Thomas Malaby and game designer Lee T. Guzofski spoke at the Academy on "The Anthropology of Online Worlds"; in this two-part series, we bring you that talk.
Podcast
December 15, 2011
In the world of online gaming, natural reality often blends and blurs with virtual reality. This November, anthropologist Thomas Malaby and game designer Lee T. Guzofski spoke at the Academy on "The Anthropology of Online Worlds"; in this two-part series, we bring you that talk.
Podcast
November 21, 2011
Cognitive neuroscientists are discovering new insights into how our brains learn all the time, but lab research doesn't always translate to real world of education. S&C asked three brain scientists—and organizers of the Academy's Aspen Brain Forum—about their own work and how it can be applied to the classroom.
As a medium, film has the power to bring us into the inner world of science, breaking down misconceptions by creating an alternative narrative. Alexis Gambis, founder of the Imagine Science Film Festival, and filmmaker and scientist Valerie Weiss share their insights.
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