Ranked #1
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug with Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug with Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson
Delve into the realms of predatory superbugs with infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband,... Read more
13 Mar 2019
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58mins
Ranked #2
Editing the Code of Life: Into the Future with CRISPR Technology with Jennifer Doudna - 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
Editing the Code of Life: Into the Future with CRISPR Technology with Jennifer Doudna - 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
Jennifer Doudna, co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9 and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses how genome edit... Read more
26 Oct 2019
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57mins
Ranked #3
Nadia Polikarpova: Creating New Languages for Programming
Nadia Polikarpova: Creating New Languages for Programming
2020 Sloan Research Fellow Nadia Polikarpova is an assistant professor at CSE, and a member of the Programming Systems g... Read more
2 Jan 2019
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3mins
Ranked #4
Stem Cells to the Rescue: Saving the Northern White Rhino from Extinction
Stem Cells to the Rescue: Saving the Northern White Rhino from Extinction
There are only two Northern White Rhinos left on the planet. How can we reverse extinction to save them and use the less... Read more
29 Oct 2019
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39mins
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Ranked #5
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Sarah Tishkoff: Human Population Genetics and Origins
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Sarah Tishkoff: Human Population Genetics and Origins
CARTA celebrates its 10th anniversary with a whirlwind tour of anthropogeny, the study of the origin of humans, by addre... Read more
4 Jun 2019
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16mins
Ranked #6
CARTA: Tool Use and Technology: Paula Tallal - Writing and Reading: The Evolution of Social Media
CARTA: Tool Use and Technology: Paula Tallal - Writing and Reading: The Evolution of Social Media
This symposium addresses the interactive gene-culture co-evolution of the human brain with tool use and technology - ran... Read more
28 May 2019
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20mins
Ranked #7
The Uncharted Mind: Gender Diversity Drives Scientific Discovery
The Uncharted Mind: Gender Diversity Drives Scientific Discovery
Understanding how the brain works has traditionally been undertaken by men and about men but cognitive neuroscientist Em... Read more
11 Oct 2019
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22mins
Ranked #8
CARTA: Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind: Lessons for Anthropogeny: Isabelle Peretz: Born to be Musical: What We Can Learn from Congenital Anomalies
CARTA: Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind: Lessons for Anthropogeny: Isabelle Peretz: Born to be Musical: What We Can Learn from Congenital Anomalies
Isabelle Peretz examines what congenital amusia - the condition where one is amusical, lacking such abilities as pitch o... Read more
26 Aug 2019
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20mins
Ranked #9
Eavesdropping on Whales: How Whale Calls Inform Science
Eavesdropping on Whales: How Whale Calls Inform Science
Whales are among the most fascinating animals in the ocean. People are intrigued by their impressive size, intelligence,... Read more
2 Apr 2019
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58mins
Ranked #10
Seaweed as a Superfood
Seaweed as a Superfood
Marine biologist Jennifer Smith talks about the properties and history of the superfood seaweed. Series: "Jeffrey B. Gr... Read more
9 Aug 2019
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3mins
Ranked #11
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Alyssa Crittenden: Parenting and Child Development
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Alyssa Crittenden: Parenting and Child Development
CARTA celebrates its 10th anniversary with a whirlwind tour of anthropogeny, the study of the origin of humans, by addre... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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16mins
Ranked #12
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Kristen Hawkes: Hunter-Gatherers/Life History and Reproduction
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Kristen Hawkes: Hunter-Gatherers/Life History and Reproduction
CARTA celebrates its 10th anniversary with a whirlwind tour of anthropogeny, the study of the origin of humans, by addre... Read more
5 Jun 2019
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16mins
Ranked #13
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Katerina Semendeferi: Comparative Brain Anatomy
CARTA 10th Anniversary Symposium: Revisiting the Agenda - Katerina Semendeferi: Comparative Brain Anatomy
CARTA celebrates its 10th anniversary with a whirlwind tour of anthropogeny, the study of the origin of humans, by addre... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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16mins
Ranked #14
CARTA presents Anthropogeny: The Perspective from Africa - Sarah Wurz: Klasies River as a 120000-Year-Old Archive of Human Behavior in South Africa
CARTA presents Anthropogeny: The Perspective from Africa - Sarah Wurz: Klasies River as a 120000-Year-Old Archive of Human Behavior in South Africa
This CARTA symposium focuses on the contributions of scientists and scholars of anthropogeny who live and work in Africa... Read more
22 Aug 2019
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17mins
Ranked #15
Giving Your Brain a Voice: Engineering Sensors That Listen to Brain Cells
Giving Your Brain a Voice: Engineering Sensors That Listen to Brain Cells
The human brain is composed of billions of cells that communicate through chemical and electrical signals. LLNL microele... Read more
19 Jun 2019
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46mins
Ranked #16
The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior
The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior
Yale University's BJ Casey shares an in-depth look into the detrimental effects on the brain resulting in behavioral and... Read more
14 Feb 2019
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17mins
Ranked #17
A New Perspective on Autism Could Change Interventions
A New Perspective on Autism Could Change Interventions
The authors of a provocative new paper maintain that many of the behaviors common to autism—including low eye contact, r... Read more
27 Sep 2019
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1min
Ranked #18
Navigating the Perilous Waters at the Edge of Glaciers to Understand Sea Level Rise - 2019 Keeling Lecture
Navigating the Perilous Waters at the Edge of Glaciers to Understand Sea Level Rise - 2019 Keeling Lecture
Collapsing ice shelves and calving of large icebergs in Greenland and Antarctica have recently become major drivers of s... Read more
6 Jul 2019
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58mins
