Jonathan Berger discusses the pervasive, often obsessive connection between music and human behavior. Looking at the associations with music and salient life events, he explores the features, curses, and possible benefits of music that arise. (May 7, 2011)

Music, Memory, and (Gulp) Aging

Tom Byers and Tina Seelig demonstrate how they encourage their students to take life lessons from entrepreneurship even if their students are from a seemingly unrelated field. (May 7, 2011)

Entrepreneurship as an Extreme Sport

Abbas Milani believes that Iran's nuclear program will have incredible effects on the democratic aspirations of the population of Iran and the rest of the Middle East. (May 7, 2011)

Democratic Winds, Nuclear Nightmares: Iran's Nuclear Program and the Development of Democracy in Iran and the Middle East

Professor of Bioengineering Russ Altman discusses personalized medicine and his new discoveries in the field. He presents his research in applying computing technology to basic molecular biological problems of relevance to medicine. (May 7, 2011)

Personalized Medicine: Prescribing the Right Drugs Based on Your Genes

Jenna Davis and Jeff Koseff lead a discussion in which they detail the current state of the world's freshwater sources. Growing needs and increasing variability in resources are driving research to determine how we can ensure an adequate water is available. (May 7, 2011)

Water: The New Oil?

Eric Hanushek and Michael Kirst discuss educational reforms in the United States and specifically in California and how they believe these reforms can be improved in the future. (May 7, 2011)

Do Politics and Economics Mix in School Policy?

David Kennedy talks about the development of the American West as a region as well as the issues that need to be solved in order to create a successful future, specifically water management. (May 7, 2011)

The Future of the American West: A History

Social psychologist and marketer Jennifer Aaker gives a presentation which draws on psychological insights on happiness, storytelling principles, and design thinking methodology to reveal why some ideas and brands take off quickly. (May 7, 2011)

The DragonFly Effect: How Ideas Take Flight

Irv Weissman gives a presentation on the current state of stem cell research and technology, describing the current uses for them and how they will affect medical techniques in the future. (January 22, 2011)

Stem Cells and the Promise of New Cancer Therapies

(January 22, 2011) Jeff Koseff and Buzz Thompson give a presentation about the state of the world's water supply. They describe how economic development and population growth are increasing the demand for water and detail measures that may become necessary to ensure that water is available to all.

Leading Matters

Claude Goldenberg and Susan O'Hara discuss the challenges of teaching english language learners in the public school system and what is begin done to improve the process. (January 22, 2011)

What's Happening with English Language Learners in Our Schools?

(November 13, 2010) Deborah Stipek discusses the efforts that have been made over the last few years to reform the public education system in America. She shows why education will need to be so much different in the future.

Race to … Where? Will "Reform" Cure or Kill the American Public Education System?

Professor Priya Satia explores the parallels between the British occupation of Iraq after World War I and the current American occupation. (November 13, 2010)

Iraq Then and Now: Lessons from Empires Past

Jonathan Berger discusses music as an aspect of human behavior and how it can be used to trigger memories and emotions. He also examines how music and memory correlate during the aging process. (November 13, 2010)

Music, Memory and (Gulp) Aging

Jack Rakove gives a detailed history of the historic event that we now know as the Boston Tea Party. He gives historical background and explains the events leading up to and the implications stemming from the political event. (September 25, 2010)

Why the Boston Tea Party Really Mattered

Michael Shanks, Chris Gerdes, Clifford Nass, and Sebastian Thrun -- all leading inventors and researchers at Stanford's new Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) -- investigate the topic of current, present, and future automobilles. (May 22, 2010)

The Automobile: Past, Present and Future

Dr. Abraham Verghese, a professor at Stanford University, discusses how doctoring has changed in the technological age, yet how some aspects of medicine -- some rituals -- are vital and unchanged since antiquity. (May 22, 2010)

Touching Where It Hurts: The Physician in a Technological Age

The presenters discuss how Stanford is leading the way in inventing and developing novel diagnostic and medical surveillance capabilities; techniques for disease control, mitigation and eradication; and tools for ensuring health and well-being. (May 22, 2010)

From Dreams to Reality: Medical Breakthroughs on the Horizon

Peggy Phelan, Stanford Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts, discusses the elements of performance and self-fashioning in social networking sites. (May 22, 2010)

Performance in the Age of Social Networks, or, Facebook as Theater

Professor Frank Flynn explores alternative "psychological levers" that can help engender employee motivation--tools that truly motivate employees without excessive spending. (May 22, 2010)

Motivating People in Lean Times

FLASH

David Kelley, George Kembel, Perry Klebahn, and Diego Rodriguez, four leading innovators from the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, explore the process behind innovative outcomes to complex problems. (May 22, 2010)

Innovation Is a Process, Not a Flash

Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford Professor of Law, discusses recent rulings by the US Supreme court and asks if these decisions strike the right balance between respecting and restraining the work of the other executive branches. (April 17, 2010)

What's New at the U.S. Supreme Court?

Carol Dweck and Deborah Stipek discuss their perspectives on how a "fixed" mind-set can compromise a student's motivation and achievement, while teaching a "growth" mind-set can have the opposite effect. (March 6, 2010)

Improving Education: The Connection Between Motivation, Mind-Set and Achievement

Pamela Karlan will discuss what President Obama's election means for the blockbuster statutes passed during the Second Reconstruction and for civil rights law. (November 14, 2009)

Civil Rights Law After Obama

Mark Applebaum, jazz pianist, composer, and Associate Professor of Composition and Theory in the Stanford Music Department, presents a mini-concert and lecture demonstration in which the basic principles of jazz and improvisation are explained. (May 9, 2009)

The Jazz Improviser's Mind

Lawrence Marshall, professor of law and associate dean for public service and clinical education, discusses the ramification over the wrongful conviction phenomenon on the criminal justice system in general and on the death penalty in particular. (May 9, 2009)

The Innocence Revolution and the Death Penalty

John Shoven, professor of economics and director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and George Shultz, fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Secretary of State, discuss long-term problems with the U.S. economy. (May 9, 2009)

Solutions to the Long-Run Problems of the Economy

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