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To Be Human: What Makes The Human Brain Human with Terrence Sejnowski

Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, addresses the uniqueness of the human brain in the “To Be Human” series, sponsored by the Making of the...

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Transistors and Integrated Circuits from DC to the (far) Infrared (Doluca...

UC Santa Barbara Professor Mark Rodwell, whose research has extended the limits of high-frequency radio, high-speed optical communications, and powerful imaging applications, has been awarded the...

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CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Genetic Impact of...

How cultural traditions have shaped, and continue to shape, our genomes with presentations on Genetic Impact of Culturally-Based Mating Systems (Marcus Feldman), The Grandmother Hypothesis and Rates of...

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The Present: Cognitive and Computer Science Our Digital Self - Our Digital...

Episode two moves from the digital past to the present, where cognitive scientists and computer engineers at UC Merced are collaborating and using real time, 3-D motion capture technology to understand...

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The Dalai Lama on Science and Climate Change - UCTV Prime Cuts

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama praises the work and methods of skeptical scientists and encourages all to be open-minded and collaborative in the pursuit of knowledge. This excerpt is from “The...

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The Future: Teaching and Life-Saving Tools - Our Digital Life (Ep. 3)

The final episode of “Our Digital Life” shows how UC Merced scientists are developing digital technology to help visualize, research and learn about things we could previously only imagine. Using 3-D...

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Efficiency For Sale - Who’s Buying? with Merrian Fuller

Merrian Fuller from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Energy Technologies Division joins former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer Sabin Russell...

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Jellyfish Burgers or How We Changed the Oceans and They Changed Us with...

Marine biologist Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia, warns that modern fishing practices, left unmanaged, will leave little but jellyfish and plankton in the sea for future generations to eat...

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Author Bill McKibben: Third-Annual Keeling Lecture - Perspectives on Ocean...

The annual Keeling Lecture honors the memory of distinguished Scripps Oceanography professor Charles David Keeling's life and invaluable contributions to climate science and Scripps. This year join...

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Customizing Plants for Biofuels with Henrik Scheller

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory biological engineer Henrik Scheller chats with Sabin Russell, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned Berkeley Lab science writer. Scheller hopes to...

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Cooperation Trumps Conflict in Tomales Bay - UCTV Prime Cuts

Scenic Marin County in California is home to two thriving industries that were once in conflict – oyster farming and dairy farming. In order to grow healthy and marketable oysters, the farmers depended...

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Coring for Clues in Clear Lake - UCTV Prime Cuts

UC Berkeley scientists play forensic detectives by drilling into the ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California’s Clear Lake. They’re searching for clues that will help them predict how...

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Blood Spatter Science - UCTV Prime Cuts

What do forensic science students and engineers have in common? At UC Davis, it's an effort to find clues at a crime scene through the blood stain patterns left behind. A joint research project has a...

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Academic-Industry Collaborations: Can We All Just Get Along?

It is understood that academia and industry both have essential roles in bringing new and improved clinical products to the public. However, it is also generally agreed that academic-industry...

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Solar Concentrators - UCTV Prime Cuts

A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has redesigned luminescent solar concentrators to be more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells. Professor Sayantani Ghosh is...

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Too Many People - Earth 101

Most of our serious problems in the world today can be traced back to the impact of human populations on the environment. With each person requiring energy, space and resources to survive, the stress...

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Personalized Medicine: A Case Study of Academic-Industry Collaboration

The use of genomics and genetics to predict disease, prognosis, and optimal treatments for individuals is a promising development in medicine, but it will require successful academic-industry...

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What Hollywood Can Teach Us About Our Planet - Earth 101

Plants have a lot to teach us about how our planet works and movies like the blockbuster film “Avatar,” in which plants play an important role, can inspire us to pay closer attention to them. Jodie...

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135 Years of Global Ocean Warming - Perspectives on Ocean Science

A new study comparing past and present ocean temperatures reveals the global ocean has been warming for more than a century. Join Dean Roemmich, Scripps physical oceanographer and study co-author, as...

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Leaping Lizards - UCTV Prime Cuts

UC Berkeley biologists and engineers interested in motion look at how lizards use their tails for clues on how to improve the mobility of the robots they are designing for use in search, rescue or...

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