Monthly Archive: April 2017
If there is no God watching us, why be good? [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”0″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”65″ disable_keyboard=”0″]aLulcfyqrc0[/wpdevart_youtube] Richard Dawkins examines sin. He asks whether the old religious rules about what is right and wrong are helpful...
Finding the Achilles Heel(Last part of the emperor of all maladies) This episode picks up the story at another moment of buoyant optimism in the cancer world: Scientists believe they have cracked the essential mystery of the malignant cell and the first targeted therapies have been developed, with...
“Have you ever been to the Cluny, the museum? There you will see Persian carpets of the most exquisite hue and of a pattern the beautiful intricacy of which delights and amazes the eye. In them you will see the mystery and the sensual beauty of the East,...
In the face of what appears to be a blindly indifferent universe, Dawkins argues that we each have to forge our own sense of meaning. For Dawkins, it is the awe and wonder in scientific enquiry – from the human genome to the quest for the Higgs Boson...
The Blind Men and the Elephant(Second part of the emperor of all maladies) This episode picks up the story in the wake of the declaration of a “war on cancer” by Richard Nixon in 1971. Flush with optimism and awash with federal dollars, the cancer field plunges forward...
[wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”0″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”64″ disable_keyboard=”0″]gy0jGhpuNUo[/wpdevart_youtube] “And what of Marriage, master?” And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when white wings of death scatter...
The challenge for the future is how we can keep science as a public enterprise. Professor Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh, and Dr Paul Williams, University of Reading, look at why accurate data are critical for the scientific record. This film is part of a series of...
9 May 2011—Intel announced a big change to the electronic switches at the heart of its CPUs. Going forward, the firm will be using three-dimensional transistors to take the place of long-used planar devices. The new transistors—dubbed “tri-gates”—are a variation on the FinFET, a transistor design that substitutes...
Had this ant research been performed in the early 1970s, when researchers were working on communications algorithms, it might have saved them a little time. Not that the researchers would have necessarily given the ants the credit. After all, quips “the ants didn’t publish.” Before researchers developed the...
Simon talks about technology, millennials, and the importance of practicing empathy. [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”0″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”66″ disable_keyboard=”0″]sjxNTcsquG8[/wpdevart_youtube]
