Posted: Jul 7th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Pop-Up Particle Physics from the Large Hadron Collider
Alan Alda moderates as leading physicists Lisa Randall (Harvard) and Michael Tuts (Columbia), join CERN's Emma Sanders to explain new science coming from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Lady and the Sharks: An Evening with Eugenie Clark
At the third event in the Science & the City Girls Night Out series, world-renowned ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, founding ...
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010 | Comments: 1
What to Eat: Diet, Nutrition, and Food Politics – An Evening with Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle contends that the modern grocery store is a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for your purchases with profits—not health ...
Posted: Feb 17th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Adrienne Burke, Director of Public Outreach, The New York Academy of Sciences
I first met Helen Fisher in 2006, when I ...
Posted: Jan 13th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Lust, Romance & Attachment: The Science of Love and Whom We Choose
What happens when you fall in love? Helen Fisher says it begins when someone ...
Posted: Jan 6th, 2010 | Comments: 4
150 Years of the Origin of Species
Nobel Laureate and neurobiologist Gerald Edelman, psychologist Paul Ekman, and anthropologist Terrence Deacon tell us how Charles Darwin has influenced science and their own research.
Presented by ...
Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 | Comments: 1
Powering Up Cities for Plug-In Hybrids
Taped at The New York Academy of Sciences, January 21, 2009
Speakers:
Mark Duvall: Director, Electric Transportation, Electric Power Research Institute
Arthur Kressner: Director, Research and Development, Power Supply, ...
Posted: Jun 10th, 2009 | Comments: 0
Zero Net Energy Building: Reality or Fiction
A zero net building would generate enough renewable energy to meet its own energy needs.Clark Brockman, the director of SERA Architect’s Sustainability Resource Team, moderates the first meeting ...
Posted: Oct 15th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Trafficking the Traffickers: Undercover Ethnography in the Organs Trafficking Underworld
Nancy Scheper-Hughes studies the covert activities surrounding organ transplants by renegade surgeons, international organized crime networks, local kidney hunters and so called transplant tourists engaged in ‘back-door’ and ...
Posted: Oct 6th, 2008 | Comments: 2
Understanding the Universe: An Evening with Frank Wilzcek
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, Frank Wilczek, explains the universe, synthesis the Grand Unification of Forces, and shares his vision of a new Golden Age in physics-- ...
Posted: Sep 15th, 2008 | Comments: 0
