Posted: Apr 22nd, 2010 | Comments: 1
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 ...
What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?
Writer Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan
The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains ...
Posted: Apr 14th, 2010 | Comments: 1
How Do Our Brains Cope with Long-term Stress?
Arjia Rinpoche + Bruce S. McEwen
A survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution talks to the Rockefeller University neuroendocrinologist about how stress hormones act on the ...
Posted: Mar 10th, 2010 | Comments: 0
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
James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering ...
Posted: Dec 10th, 2009 | Comments: 0
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
Science and Faith: Complementary or Contradictory?
The Bible's Buried Secrets – NOVA’s landmark new film—is an archeological detective story that explores the origins of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, and the birth of monotheism. This ...
Posted: Nov 13th, 2008 | Comments: 1
