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What Time is it Anyway?: Clocks, Timescales, and How the World Decides What Time It Is (September 27, 2012)
Christopher Ekstrom, Chief of Advanced Clock Development, U.S. Naval Observatory
Myth, Math, and the Measure of Maya Time (October 22, 2012)
William Saturno, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Boston University
Breaching Mountains, Crossing Deserts: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (June 14, 2012)
Kyle Wyatt, Curator of History and Technology, California State Railroad Museum
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (September 13, 2012)
Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (March 29, 2012)
Brian Fagan, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins (April 24, 2012)
Donald Johanson, Founding Director, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
Lecture video not available.
Listen to Dr. Johanson's interview on KCUR's "Up to Date" with Steve Kraske.
Neanderthal Genome Project: New Insights into Human Evolution (May 3, 2012)
Richard Edward Green, Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California-Santa Cruz
The Pleistocene Meets Middle Earth: The Significance of the Indonesian Hobbits in Human Evolution (May 10, 2012)
Matthew Tocheri, Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
The Man Who Invented the Computer (October 19, 2011)
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Disruptive Innovation: The Story of the First Digital Camera (October 26, 2011)
Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, and retired electrical engineer, Eastman Kodak Company
Pandora Radio & the Music Genome Project: What Musicology & Science Reveal About Our Musical Tastes (November 2, 2011)
Nolan Gasser, Pandora Radio and the Music Genome Project
Celebrating the Experiment (April 19, 2011)
Kary Mullis, Inventor of PCR
GFP: Adventures in Nontranslational Research (April 26, 2011))
Martin Chalfie, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind (May 4, 2011)
Robert Laughlin, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Bringing Star Power to Earth: Is Fusion Energy in Our Future? (October 6, 2010)
Jeff Wisoff, Principal Deputy Principal Associate Director, National Ignition Facility
The Bomb’s Early Light (October 13, 2010)
Richard Rhodes, Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner Author
The New Face of Nuclear Research (October 20, 2010)
Dwight Williams, Senior Science Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy
The Future of Nuclear Energy in the U.S. (October 27, 2010)
Marvin Fertel, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds (May 5, 2010)
Sara Seager, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Planetary Science and Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When Will We Find The Extra-Terrestrials? (May 10, 2010)
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
The Paradoxes of Time Travel (May 19, 2010)
Sean Carroll, Senior Research Associate in Physics, California Institute of Technology
A Rationale for a Return to the Moon, and Soon! (September 2, 2009) (Podcast on iTunes)
Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut
Finding Our Origins: The Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (September 9, 2009) (Podcast on iTunes)
Steve Hawley, five-time Shuttle astronaut, and Jonathan Gardner, deputy chief scientist, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA Goddard
Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System (September 16, 2009) (Podcast on iTunes)
Tom Jones, four-time Shuttle astronaut and Ellen Stofan, planetary scientist
Lone Eagles: America's First Orbital Spaceflights (September 23, 2009)
Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 Astronaut, with Thomas Mallon and Kris Stoever
Star Struck! Sidereal Messages from Galileo to Herschel (April 22, 2010)
Cockefair Course - Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species
Voyage of the Beagle (October 7, 2009)
Galapagos and Beyond (October 21, 2009)
Road to Origin of Species (October 14, 2009)
Road to Origin of Species II (October 28, 2009)
Cockefair Course - Atomic Perspectives
Radioactivity, X-rays, and the Atom, 1895-1913 (February 9, 2011)
A Quantum Leap, 1900-1932 (February 16, 2011)
From Transmutation to Fission, 1932-1939 (February 23, 2011)
The Road to Trinity, 1939-1945 (March 2, 2011)
Introduction and Overview of the Morning Sessions
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium, New York, New York
An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
Thomas Lovejoy, Heinz Center Biodiversity Chair, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
A History of Climate Change
James Fleming, Professor and Director of Science, Technology and Society, Colby College
Human and Natural Drivers of Climate Change
Johannes Feddema, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kansas
Deconstructing Global Warming
Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Evolution of Economic Irrationality: Insights from Monkeys (February 23, 2012)
Laurie R. Santos, Associate Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and the Director of Yale University's Comparative Cognition Laboratory
Who Discovered the Periodic Table?: The Anatomy of a Priority Dispute (April 13, 2011)
Michael Gordin, Professor, History of Science, Princeton University
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human (February 25, 2010)
Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
Faith and Facts, Experience and Expedience: A Comparison of Protestant and Italian Catholic Perspectives in 17th and 18th-century Theories of the Earth (July 18, 2012)
Dr. Francesco Luzzini, University of East Piedmont, Italy
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (October 12, 2011)
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) - (September 29, 2011)
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
The Future of Cell Phone Innovation (March 31, 2011)
Dan Hesse, COE, Sprint Nextel Corporation
We Can Now Solve the Oldest Environmental Problem (March 24, 2010)
Wes Jackson, President, The Land Institute
