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Death, Sex & Evolution
Jun 13, 2010 3:00pm
IN THIS RIVETING STORY about his remarkable discoveries from the Gogo fossil site in the Kimberly district of Western Australia, the Australian paleontologist John Long, now Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of L.A. County, takes us beyond just reconstructing animal morphology and into the...
Adventures Among the Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
May 23, 2010 3:00pm
INTREPID INTERNATIONAL EXPLORER, biologist, and National Geographic photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological...
How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes & Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
May 2, 2010 3:00pm
In this lecture based on his new book, How the Economy Works, one of our leading economists, the UCLA professor Roger Farmer, provides a jargon-free exploration of the current crisis, offering a powerful argument for how economics must change to get us out of it....
On Fact & Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science
Apr 11, 2010 3:00pm
FRAUD IN SCIENCE is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist’s ethical misstep isn’t always clear. In his lecture based on his new book, On Fact and Fraud, Caltech physicist David...
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Mar 21, 2010 3:00pm
A DRUNKARD’S WALK is a type of random statistical distribution with important applications in scientific studies ranging from biology to astronomy. Mlodinow, a visiting lecturer at Caltech and coauthor with Stephen Hawking of A Briefer History of Time, takes us on a walk through the hills and valleys of randomness...
Does God have a Future? A Great Debate Filmed by ABC’s Nightline
Mar 14, 2010 3:00pm
Does God Have a Future? Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston debate the question with Michael Shermer and Sam Harris....
Natural Experiments of History
Feb 28, 2010 2:00pm
Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel and the bestselling work in environmental history Collapse, here reveals for the first time his methodology in the applied use of natural experiments and the comparative method....
Learn to be a Psychic in 10 Easy Lessons
Feb 25, 2010 12:16pm
Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them....
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