Linda Hall Library Webcasts
Video of recent programs are made available through Vimeo and iTunes. Modern Inventions Lecture SeriesThe 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 Nobel Laureate Lecture Series: The Future of InnovationCelebrating 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 Exploring the Nuclear Age Lecture SeriesBringing 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 Are We Alone? Lecture Series: The Scientific Search for Extraterrestial LifeExoplanets 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 To the Moon and to the Planets Beyond Lecture SeriesA Rationale for a Return to the Moon, and Soon! (September 2, 2009) Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut Finding Our Origins: The Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (September 9, 2009) 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) 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 Professor William B. Ashworth Jr. VideosStar 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) 2009 Linda Hall Library Climate Change SymposiumIntroduction 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 Paul D. Bartlett Sr. LectureWho 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 Other LecturesThe 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 |