Capital Science Lectures - Tracks
by Carnegie Institution for Science
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Description
The Capital Science lecture series allows outstanding scientists from a broad range of disciplines to present their research to a general audience. Presentations are accessible but engaging, and topics range from string theory and Mayan studies to evolution and code breaking. Presenters represent the preeminent researchers in their respective fields.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoIn Search of Memory Documentary by Petra Seeger - Question and Answer Session | -- | 3/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Creation of Everything: The First 2 Billion Years | -- | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoHazy Skies on the Early Earth - Lessons from Saturn's Moon Titan | -- | 2/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoBrains, Minds, and Social Process | -- | 11/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoIf You Knew SUSY | -- | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Search for Supermassive Black Holes | -- | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoGet Rich and Save the World - Or Else | -- | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoRethinking the Rotting Y Chromosome | -- | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoPluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System | -- | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoConsensus in Science - How Do We Know We're Not Wrong | -- | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoMysteries of the Dark Universe | -- | 1/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoGenesis - The Scientific Quest for the Origins of Life | -- | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoOur Solar System and Others Not So Like It | -- | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe Dynamic Architecture of Plant Cells - Molecular Machines Biological Organization | -- | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoOrigin of the Earth and Moon | -- | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoClimate Change on Mars | -- | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoThe Carbon Age: From Crisis to Stability | -- | 9/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoSystems Biology - Changing Biology, Medicine, and Society | -- | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoCooperation and Collective Behavior, from Bacteria to the Global Commons | -- | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoHow to Make a Milky Way | -- | 11/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoHow the Brain Discovers Language | -- | 11/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoStem Cells - Biology, Medicine and Beyond | -- | 11/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoThe Long and Short of Long Term Memory | -- | 11/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoPersisting Problems in Tuberculosis | -- | 11/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoEnergy Flow in Tropical Mangroves | -- | 11/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoThe Human Genome and Beyond | -- | 11/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoSearching for Life in the Universe - Lessons from the Earth | -- | 11/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoExtrasolar Planets - First Reconnaissance | -- | 11/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoHow Genes are Expressed and Repressed | -- | 11/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoThe Invisible Forest Phytoplankton and Global Change | -- | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoWill the Universe Expand Forever? | -- | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoWeird Animals: Genomes and Sex | -- | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoFrom the Big Bang to Broadway: How Things Evolve | -- | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoFrom Earth to Stars...and Planetary Extremes | -- | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoA New Job for Telescopes: Making Solar Electricity | -- | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoLight and Energy, Mimicking Natural Photosynthesis | -- | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoThe Galactic Center: Uncovering the Pulse of Our Galaxy | -- | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoStem Cells: Their Biology and Promise for Regenerative Medicine | -- | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoA Conversation with Carl Djerassi | -- | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoShining Light on the Dark History of the Early Solar System | -- | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoSchema and Bias: A Historian’s Reflection on Double-Blind Experiments BALZAN LECTURE | Dr. Carlo Ginzburg University of California, Los Angeles Department of History Winner of the 2010 Balzan Prize, Dr. Ginzburg was honored for the exceptional combination of imagination, scholarly precision and literary skill with which he has recovered and illuminated the beliefs of ordinary people in Early-modern Europe. How can we conceive a fruitful dialogue between the humanities and sciences? Dr. Ginzburg will look at the historian’s craft from new and unexpected angles and discuss whether double blind experiments, used in medicine to test drug effectiveness, can be applied to historical research. Co-hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science with the Embassies of Italy and Switzerland, and the Balzan Foundation. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoAstrobiology, Exoplanets, and the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth | SPECIAL EVENT A presentation by author and Washington Post science writer Marc Kaufman, followed by a discussion with Carnegie planet-hunter Paul Butler. Recent discoveries have convinced many astronomers that our galaxy is home to billions of exoplanets and that other galaxies have hundreds of billions more. The search is now on for distant planets in "habitable zones," where water is sometimes liquid and the possibilities for life are greatest. With a scientific consensus forming that these potentially life-sustaining planets also number in the billions, the logic for the existence of extraterrestrial life grows stronger all the time. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoAtom Manipulation: New Perspectives in Nanoscience | Winner of the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, Dr. Eigler was honored for the development of atom manipulation and for the elucidation of quantum phenomena with precisely controlled atomic and molecular arrangements on surfaces. In 1959 Richard Feynman discussed a "great future" in which "we can arrange the atoms the way we want." In 1989, Feynman's "great future" was ushered in with the discovery of ways to manipulate individual atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope. Dr. Eigler was the first person ever to move and control a single atom. He will review the basics of scanning tunneling microscopy and describe how to extend its capabilities to include the construction of atomically precise structures through the manipulation of individual atoms. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoThe Universe from Beginning to End | 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics The Australian National University, The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory In 1998 two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that indicated more than 70% of the cosmos was in the form of dark energy. 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics Brian Schmidt, leader of the High-Redshift Supernova Search Team, will describe this discovery and explain how astronomers have used observations to trace our universe's history back more than 13 billion years, leading them to ponder the ultimate fate of the cosmos. Co-hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science with The Australian National University, and the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 44 Episodes |
