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...
View ArticleTransistors 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...
View ArticleCARTA: 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleEfficiency 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...
View ArticleJellyfish 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...
View ArticleAuthor 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...
View ArticleCustomizing 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...
View ArticleCooperation 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...
View ArticleCoring 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...
View ArticleBlood 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...
View ArticleAcademic-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...
View ArticleSolar 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...
View ArticleToo 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...
View ArticlePersonalized 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View Article135 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...
View ArticleLeaping 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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