| Ranulfo Romo, Kun Chang A neurophysiologist and a filmmaker team up to talk about somatosensory research. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 11/14/2008 |
| Ira Flatow, Ari Handel, Darcy Kelley, Sidney Perkowitz, Billy Shebar The Imagine Science Film Festival kicks off with a discussion on the key to making a successful science movie - without compromising the story or the science. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/24/2008 |
| The Neuroscience of Elections Psychological and neurological studies suggest that individuals' personality types and even neurology may shape their political attitudes. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/17/2008 |
| John Jost, Liz Phelps, David Amodio Three NYU scientists describe some of the research into why we vote the way we do. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/17/2008 |
| Paul Ekman Psychologist Ekman discusses how 40 hours of conversation with the Dalai Lama changed his views on our ability to be emotionally aware. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/10/2008 |
| Philip Zimbardo A renowned psychologist describes how our individual perception of time shapes the choices we make. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/3/2008 |
| Frank Wilczek A Nobel Laureate explains the Large Hadron Collider and its potential to revolutionize the field of physics.
Multimedia: videoSponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 9/26/2008 |
| David Edwards Learn about new fusions of art and science, and the creation of a unique innovation space in Paris. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 7/11/2008 |
| Simon Brooking Learn all that goes into making Scotland's traditional drink, which turns out to be a lot of culture, a bit of science, and just a pinch of art. Multimedia: SlideshowSponsored By: S&C Food Series Posted: 5/30/2008 |
| Gerard Liger-Belair Gerard Liger-Belair has been studying the science of champagne bubbles for 10 years. Learn just how important bubbles are to the taste this celebratory drink - and find out the science behind it. Multimedia: Video highlightsSponsored By: S&C Food Series Posted: 5/16/2008 |
| Donald Pfaff The head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University describes how ethics may be a hardwired function of the human brain. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 3/14/2008 |
| Jeffrey Blumberg A nutrition scientist from Tufts University gives an overview of the health benefits of chocolate. Sponsored By: S&C Food Series Posted: 2/29/2008 |
| Vijay Vaitheeswaran The Global Environment and Energy Correspondent for The Economist takes an up-close look at global warming, the auto industry, and government. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 2/15/2008 |
| Andrea Illy The Chairman of illycaffe S.p.A. discusses the chemistry and technology that produce a great cup of coffee. Sponsored By: S&C Food Series Posted: 1/4/2008 |
| Devra Davis A new book from the director of the Center on Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute exposes a muddled century-long research effort. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 12/7/2007 |
| Tales of Music and the Brain The famed author and physician introduces ideas from his new book, Musicophilia, to a sold-out crowd at the New York Academy of Sciences. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 11/16/2007 |
| Steven Pinker Hear what Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker has to say about language and cognition, what swearing reveals about emotion, and what innuendo says about relationships.
Warning: Explicit Language. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 11/2/2007 |
| Oliver Sacks is the master of medical case-study storytelling. His new book is a trove of strange-but-true tales about the mind and music. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/1/2007 |
| An interview with author Walter Isaacson The acclaimed biographer and onetime CNN chairman personalizes history's most famous genius. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 5/25/2007 |
| Marc D. Hauser on Our Intuitive Inheritance In a new book, the Harvard evolutionary psychologist argues that all humans share an innate sense of right and wrong. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 3/21/2007 |
| Why DARPA funds brain research, and what scientists should do about it In Mind Wars, bioethicist Jonathan Moreno tells why the defense industry is interested in new discoveries in neuroscience. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 11/27/2006 |
| Why the Pursuit of Truth Precludes Faith in the Divine Oxford University professor of public understanding in science, Richard Dawkins, makes a scientific argument against the existence of a supreme being. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/13/2006 |
| How a theoretical physicist made a career in banking Emanuel Derman was a pioneer in the now-established field of financial engineering. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 10/6/2006 |
| Are we past the point of no return? British climate change expert James Lovelock says Earth is under a more dire threat than even most environmentalists imagine. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 9/6/2006 |
| Perhaps as famous for his atheism as for his scientific research, ethologist Richard Dawkins offers an excerpt from his controversial new book, "The God Delusion." He is speaking at the Academy on October 18th. Listen to podcast. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 9/5/2006 |
| Christian de Duve on the Origin of Life In his new book, Christian de Duve examines the molecular mechanisms common to all known organisms and ponders the inevitability of life as we know it. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 7/7/2006 |
| The Anthropic View of the Universe According to Leonard Susskind, the universe we know might be just one crude but carefully balanced case among a host of different universes, each with its own physical laws. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 6/9/2006 |
| A Problem-Solving Group for Successful Women Scientists Author and former scientist Ellen Daniell discussed how participating in a small problem-solving group can lead to success in academic and other careers. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 5/25/2006 |
| Eric Kandel on His Life and Work In celebration of his new memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist recounted many formative episodes from his life in science. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 5/5/2006 |
| How Great Breakthroughs Happen For author Alan Lightman, reading landmark scientific papers provides a window onto the lives and intellectual adventures of the men and women behind the 20th century's most influential ideas. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 4/14/2006 |
| Darwin's theory of natural selection has never been very good at explaining novelty or complexity in living organisms. The new theory of "facilitated variation," however, promises to fill in the gaps. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 3/3/2006 |
| How Human Minds Make Human Kinds Author David Berreby discussed how science is beginning to understand and explain tribal loyalty, the apparently innate human tendency to divide the world into "us" and "them." Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 2/21/2006 |
| From Germ Theory to Mass Warfare In her book, Jeanne Guillemin explores the history of bioweapons and the scientific discoveries that made them possible. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 1/13/2006 |
| Life after 9/11 Marian Fontana's husband was a firefighter who perished at the World Trade Centers. Sandro Galea is a medical epidemiologist whose research team interviewed 10,000 New Yorkers after the terrorist attacks of 2001. The two shared their perspectives on the psychological effects of mass trauma. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 12/2/2005 |
| The Emerging Science of "Tribal" Psychology Scientists strive to understand the prevalence of “tribal” perceptions and feelings—about race, religion and nation. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 11/18/2005 |
| Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral While the nineteenth century's greatest scientific debate was that over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the century's other great scientific debate, almost forgotten now, posed problems even more vexing than the species question did. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 11/11/2005 |
| Celebrating David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel Scientific collaborators David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel were joined by fellow Nobelist Eric Kandel in celebration of Wiesel and Hubel’s recently published book. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 8/23/2005 |
| With Comments by Oliver Sacks In a long collaboration with the late Francis Crick, Christof Koch attempted to identify the specific mechanisms in the brain that create perception. Recent experiments have provided the first, tentative support of their hypotheses, suggesting that "zombie agents" might control what you see.
Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 7/29/2005 |
| Jeff Hawkins on How to Build a Functioning Brain How many notes of a pop tune do you need to hear before you can identify the song? The brain's ability to predict the whole from familiar parts might be the key to understanding how it works, according to author Jeff Hawkins. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 4/30/2005 |
| Simon Singh Takes on the Cosmos First proposed by a Belgian priest in the 1920s, the Big Bang found confirmation in the 1970s with the discovery of its "cosmic echo." Along the way, quite a few scientists changed their minds, including Albert Einstein. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 3/31/2005 |
| Susan Quinn's Tale of Human Trials and Oral Tolerance Could oral tolerance, a means of quieting the immune system, be used to treat autoimmune diseases? This book excerpt tells a gritty tale from the land of human trials. Sponsored By: S&C Author Series Posted: 2/23/2005 |
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