Ted Janssen

TEDxCaltech - David Awschalom - Spintronics: Abandoning Perfection for the Quantum Age

David Awschalom is a professor of physics, electrical, and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Peter J. Clarke Director of the California NanoSystems Institute.  He is a pioneer in the field of semiconductor spintronics, exploring the quantum mechani

From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11

Brian K. Kobilka: 2012 Nobel Prize Recipient in Chemistry Press Conference

Brian Kobilka, MD, professor and chair of molecular and cellular physiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has received the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He shares the prize with Robert Lefkowitz, MD, professor of biochemistry and of medicine at Duke University. The two m

From playlist Stanford News 2012

TEDxCaltech - Don Eigler - Moving Atoms, one-by-one

Don Eigler, an IBM Fellow, is a physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, where he has been a leader of the Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Project. His research is aimed at understanding the physics of nanometer-scale structures and exploring their

From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11

TEDxCaltech - Leonard Susskind - Richard Feynman

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.  His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics, and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts an

From playlist Quantum Mechanics Prof. Susskind & Feynman

INTERVIEW AT CIRM: PETER SARNAK

Peter Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in

From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews

Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren

http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution. TEDTalks is a daily

From playlist Interviews and Talks

Edward Frenkel - Interview at Cirm

Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1997 after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of th

From playlist English interviews - Interviews en anglais

Seeing the Unseen - Reinier Janssen (JPL) - 3/16/2019

"Seeing the Unseen" by Reinier Janssen, Postdoctoral Researcher at JPL TED-style talk presented at Caltech's Science for March event. For more information: http://scienceformarch.sites.caltech.edu © 2019 California Institute of Technology

From playlist Caltech Science for March 2019: TED-style talks

An Exoplanet Home to Metal Aliens? | NASA's Unexplained Files

Experts investigate if a nearby exoplanet could be the home to an alien civilization of strange, metallic monsters after a new discovery confirms that life can thrive on such a world. Stream Full Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/nasas-unexplained-fi

From playlist NASA's Unexplained Files

TEDxCaltech - Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Rives, Kip Thorne - Finding Things Out

Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved su

From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11

Wind-powered beasts that are works of art

For years Dutch artist Theo Jansen has created what he calls Strandbeests - ambulatory contraptions that walk across the beach powered by nothing but the wind. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

From playlist Misc

The History of Microscopy

After completing a fairly extensive survey of bacterial and viral pathogens, it's time to learn about some other more general microbiology concepts. What better place to start than the indispensable tool of the microbiologist, the microscope! What is the history of the microscope? What typ

From playlist Microbiology/Infectious Diseases

Take the Red Pill: Glenn Kelman at TEDxWindyCity

Glenn Kelman is CEO of Redfin. After a decade in which American culture came to be defined by Internet startups, we lost our way. IPOs collapsed. Doubts bloomed. But now virtual and real-world elements are coming together in a new kind of company that's slower and harder to build, but can

From playlist Interviews and Talks

Was Our Current Universe Already Inevitable At One Second Old?

🌏 Get your exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/hotu It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 00:00 Introduction 05:59 A Hot Dense State 19:22 How To Build A Universe 26:3

From playlist The Entire History of the Universe

How The One-Shot COVID Vaccine Changes Things

The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is now the third approved for emergency use authorization in the United States, and it's a little different from its predecessors. SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscrip

From playlist COVID-19 News & Updates

Jeroen Janssens' Ignite presentation, "Sudo Make Me a Visualization!", at Strata NYC 2013.

Jeroen Janssens' Ignite presentation, "Sudo Make Me a Visualization!", at Strata NYC 2013.

From playlist Ignite Strata + Hadoop World 2013

How Norman Lockyer Discovered Helium (& the Chromosphere & Nature Magazine)

Norman Lockyer was amazing! He went from a poor civil servant with no science background to an internationally famous astronomer who discovered the chromosphere of the sun and helium in the sun with a telescope he made with paper mache! And he also started and managed Nature magazine. Thi

From playlist Early History of Spectroscopy: Astronomy

What Does a 95% Effective Vaccine Really Mean?

If you've received a vaccine that's 95% effective, that does not mean you have a 5% chance of getting sick. That’s just not how the numbers are calculated. So let’s take a closer look at how it does work, why we can’t compare these numbers between different vaccines, and why that’s ok. Sc

From playlist COVID-19 News & Updates

The Blind Watchmaker With Paul Stepahin | Exploratorium

Theo Jansen’s strandbeests are made up of many interesting organs. They have legs that take elegant strides. They have stomachs to store energy, allowing them to walk even when there’s no wind. They can even detect water and count their steps. Explore strandbeest anatomy and what it reveal

From playlist Strandbeests at the Exploratorium Summer 2016

TEDxCaltech - Scott Aaronson - Physics in the 21st Century: Toiling in Feynman's Shadow

Scott Aaronson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Scott's research interests center around fundamental limits on what can efficiently be computed in the physical world. This has entailed studying quantum computing, the most powerful model of co

From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11