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Why Health Matters
with Dr. Andrew Weil
Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine of the College of Medicine, University of Arizona.
Physician, author and columnist Andrew Weil is one of the world’s foremost authorities on health, wellness and integrative medicine. His books, PBS specials and frequent appearances on Larry King Live have inspired people everywhere to live healthier lives.
7pm, Thursday October 15, 2009
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Nano-World Beneath the World
with Dr. Donald Tomalia
Director of The National Dendrimer & Nanotechnology Center
Central Michigan University
As a result of their unique physicochemical properties dendrimers are suitable for a wide range of novel biomedical and industrial uses. This new branch of supramolecular chemistry should spark new developments in both organic and macromolecular chemistry. Numerous applications of these compounds are conceivable, particularly in mimicking the functions of large biomolecules as drug carriers and immunogens.
7pm, Thursday March 11, 2010
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Science and Society
with Freeman Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study
Renowned in science circles not only for his rigor and insight, but for his science fiction imaginativeness and populist ethics. Dyson is concerned about the future of mankind, both in the short term and in the very remote future. “He puzzles over the meaning of life, the purpose of the universe and the nature of God. In short, he is a philosopher in the broadest sense.” -- Dr. Roger Penrose, New York Times Book Review
7pm, Thursday December 3, 2009
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Cyber Attacks Change Everything
with Scott Borg
U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit
Every aspect of national, economic, and personal security needs to be re-thought because of what can be accomplished by cyber attacks. Scott Borg originated many of the concepts and categories currently being used to understand the strategic and economic implications of these attacks.
7pm, Wednesday April 21, 2010
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Collaborative Intelligence
with Howard Rheingold
UC Berkeley and Stanford
Noted author and commentator Howard Rheingold has a proven record of accurate technology and social forecasting over two decades of syndicated columns, bestselling books, and pioneering online enterprises. Now he's on to the next and biggest thing: the marriage of mobile phone, PC, and wireless Internet that is changing the way we meet, mate, entertain, govern, and conduct business.
7pm, Thursday January 21, 2010
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Tomorrow's People
with Dr. Susan Greenfield
Oxford University
Britain's foremost neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield is the first woman director of the 204-year-old Royal Institution of Great Britain. At the beginning of the 21st Century, we may be standing on the brink of a mind-makeover more cataclysmic than anything in our history. The science and technology that is already becoming central to our lives, will soon come to transform not just the way we spend each day, but the way we think and feel.
7pm, Thursday May 6, 2010
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