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Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Monday, February 7, 2011
Friday, May 16, 2008
Wrold Science Festival May 28 - June 1, 2008 New York City
It is going to be an awesome fête. Wish I could attend this rare event.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Sherwin Nuland: My history of electroshock therapy
Sherwin Nuland, the surgeon and author, talks about the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"
In a lively show, "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days. How does he do it? He'll be happy to tell you.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
'Growing Up in the Universe' - Richard Dawkins
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic. See more at http://richarddawkins.net/growingupintheuniverse.
Episode 1/5: Waking Up in the Universe
Episode 2/5: Designed and Designoid Objects
Episode 3/5: Climbing Mount Improbable
Episode 4/5: The Ultraviolet Garden
Episode 5: The Genesis of Purpose
Saturday, November 10, 2007
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
This video is all about Stephen Hawking's ideas from his book titled the same and about his life.
Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass
Google Tech Talks June 18, 2007.
"Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the ... all » Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis"
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in Summer 2008, will collide protons at energies not accessible since the time of the early Universe. The study of the reactions produced at the LHC has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the most fundamental forces in nature. The ATLAS experiment, currently being installed at the LHC, is designed to detect collisions at the LHC, to collect the relevant data and to provide a unified framework for the reconstruction and analysis of these data. This talk will review the goals of the ATLAS program and will describe the software and computing challenges associated analyzing these data. Among the relevant issues are the need to develop and maintain a unified analysis framework for use by more than 1000 scientists and the need for distributed access to large (petabyte) scale data samples, including a significant metadata component.
"Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the ... all » Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis"
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in Summer 2008, will collide protons at energies not accessible since the time of the early Universe. The study of the reactions produced at the LHC has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the most fundamental forces in nature. The ATLAS experiment, currently being installed at the LHC, is designed to detect collisions at the LHC, to collect the relevant data and to provide a unified framework for the reconstruction and analysis of these data. This talk will review the goals of the ATLAS program and will describe the software and computing challenges associated analyzing these data. Among the relevant issues are the need to develop and maintain a unified analysis framework for use by more than 1000 scientists and the need for distributed access to large (petabyte) scale data samples, including a significant metadata component.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Dangerous Knowledge
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, ... all » Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity. Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.
Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.
The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.
Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.
The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity. Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.
Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.
The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.
Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" by Rob Bryanton.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Six Months in the Space Station
A Google Tech Talk by Daniel W. Bursch (Captain, USN, Ret.)\NASA Astronaut (former) NASA.
ABSTRACT - A special space station tour for Googlers by NASA astronaut Daniel W. Bursch detailing his more than six months long stay on the International Space Station. In addition of illustrating the stay with many unpublished pictures of both the station and Earth, Dan will take us through the nooks and crannies of living and working in weightlessness. He will also talk about the psychological challenges of living with two other people in the same "can", a theme that will no doubt affect profoundly any human mission to Mars. Carl Walz and Dan Bursch set the US record for the longest single spaceflight in 2002, when they flew for 196 days, this record was just broken this year by US astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria.
ABSTRACT - A special space station tour for Googlers by NASA astronaut Daniel W. Bursch detailing his more than six months long stay on the International Space Station. In addition of illustrating the stay with many unpublished pictures of both the station and Earth, Dan will take us through the nooks and crannies of living and working in weightlessness. He will also talk about the psychological challenges of living with two other people in the same "can", a theme that will no doubt affect profoundly any human mission to Mars. Carl Walz and Dan Bursch set the US record for the longest single spaceflight in 2002, when they flew for 196 days, this record was just broken this year by US astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria.
Nanowires and Nanocrystals for Nanotechnology
A Google Tech Talk by Yi Cui, assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University.
Monday, September 3, 2007
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
Produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC's HORIZON series. It was based on his It was based on his book of the same name, and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.
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