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Elizabeth Loftus - The Fiction of Memory

For several decades, Elizabeth Loftus has been…

From  Katie Gentilello March 9th, 2020 105 plays 0  

Margaret Kosal - The Geopolitics of the Rare and Not-So-Rare Elements

Chemical elements have played important roles in…

From  Katie Gentilello November 20th, 2019 8 plays 0  

Takamitsu “Taka” Ito - Turning Sour, Bloated, and Out of Breath: Ocean Chemistry under Global Warming

In 1997, the Japanese oceanographer Yoshiyuki…

From  Katie Gentilello November 13th, 2019 3 plays 0  

Monica Halka - The Elusive End of the Periodic Table: Why Chase It?

For more than half a century, dedicated and eager…

From  Katie Gentilello September 19th, 2019 7 plays 0  

Sam Kean - The Periodic Table: A Treasure Trove of Passion, Adventure, Betrayal, and Obsession

Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese…

From  Katie Gentilello May 8th, 2019 13 plays 0  

John Baez - Mathematical Mysteries of the Periodic Table

Why do atoms behave the way they do? Why do…

From  Katie Gentilello April 15th, 2019 22 plays 0  

Michael A. Filler - Celebrating Silicon: Its Success, Hidden History, and Next Act

The history of silicon is usually told as a…

From  Katie Gentilello March 11th, 2019 19 plays 0  

How the Universe Made the Elements in the Periodic Table - James Sowell

The creation of the elements in the universe took…

From  Katie Gentilello February 13th, 2019 63 plays 0  

Jennifer Curtis, Chandra Raman, Rick Trebino - Celebration of 2018 Physics Nobel Prize: Lighting the way with microscopic tractor beams and sculpted laser pulse

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes two…

From  Katie Gentilello November 7th, 2018 30 plays 0  

Elisabetta Matsumoto - Non-Euclidean Virtual Reality

The 2016 confirmation of Einstein's…

From  Katie Gentilello October 25th, 2018 121 plays 0  

Seth Shostak - When Will We Find E.T. and What Happens If We Do?

Are we alone in the universe? The scientific hunt…

From  Katie Gentilello October 1st, 2018 240 plays 0  

Computer Science in Six-Tenths of a Second: What Happens After Hitting ENTER in a Google Search - Lance Fortnow

What is computer science? Ask Google or Alexa,…

From  Katie Gentilello May 16th, 2018 20 plays 0  

In Conversation with Ernő Rubik - Ernő Rubik

In a rare public appearance, Ernő Rubik will give…

From  Katie Gentilello April 16th, 2018 52 plays 0  

Sex, Flies and Video: Communicating Science to the Public in Words and Images - James Gorman

Scientists and journalists have similar, but not…

From  Katie Gentilello April 2nd, 2018 132 plays 0  

Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817: A Multi-sensory Experience of the Universe - Laura Cadonati, Nepomuk Otte, Ignacio Taboada

August 17, 2017, is a milestone date for…

From  Katie Gentilello March 5th, 2018 37 plays 0  

Will Evolution and Information Theory Provide The Fundamentals Of Physics? - S. James Gates, Jr.

This presentation will describe an arc in the…

From  Katie Gentilello March 2nd, 2018 120 plays 0