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For several decades, Elizabeth Loftus has been manufacturing memories in unsuspecting minds. Sometimes these techniques change details of events that someone actually experienced. Other times, the…
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Elizabeth Loftus Date
February 27th, 2020
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Chemical elements have played important roles in the geopolitics of modern times and will continue to do so.From Einstein’s 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt highlighting the need…
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Margaret Kosal Date
November 12th, 2019
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In 1997, the Japanese oceanographer Yoshiyuki Nozaki compiled a periodic table of ocean chemistry, encapsulating the distribution of elements as a function of depth. In this periodic table, many…
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Takamitsu “Taka” Ito Date
October 31st, 2019
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For more than half a century, dedicated and eager groups of scientists have contrived ways to introduce heavier and heavier elements into the universe. Their efforts finally completed the seventh row…
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Monica Halka Date
September 11th, 2019
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Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? How did radium nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre…
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Sam Kean Date
April 18th, 2019
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Why do atoms behave the way they do? Why do electrons form “shells,” as seen in the periodic table? Why does the first shell hold 2 electrons, the second 8, and the third 18: twice the…
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John Baez Date
April 2nd, 2019
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The history of silicon is usually told as a history of electronic materials and devices. However, it is better told as a history of manufacturing innovation. This talk will take a journey through the…
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Michael A. Filler Date
March 5th, 2019
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The creation of the elements in the universe took billions of years and required various processes.The first few minutes of the big bang produced only hydrogen (H) and helium (He). No new elements…
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James Sowell Date
February 6th, 2019
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes two breakthrough inventions in laser physics. The first, optical tweezers, allows scientist and engineers to use lasers like the tractor beams of Star Trek…
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Jennifer Curtis, Chandra Raman, Rick Trebino Date
October 23rd, 2018
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The 2016 confirmation of Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves has put the spotlight back on the importance of curvature for the physics of the universe. While the ability of mass to…
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Elisabetta Matsumoto Date
October 15th, 2018
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Are we alone in the universe? The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now well into its fifth decade, and we still haven’t discovered any cosmic company. Could all this mean…
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Seth Shostak biography
Seth Shostak is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. Date
September 24th, 2018
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What is computer science? Ask Google or Alexa, and you'll get an answer like "the study of the principles and use of computers." That doesn't really capture the breadth of the…
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Lance Fortnow Date
April 19th, 2018
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In a rare public appearance, Ernő Rubik will give a public lecture, discussing a wide range of topics including design and architecture, the role of curiosity in the human condition, and his…
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Ernő Rubik Date
April 11th, 2018
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Scientists and journalists have similar, but not identical interests in getting information about their work to the public in an appealing, but accurate way. James Gorman will draw on his experience…
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James Gorman Date
March 27th, 2018
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August 17, 2017, is a milestone date for astrophysics. For the first time, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected signals from the collision of two neutron stars. The powerful…
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Laura Cadonati, Nepomuk Otte, Ignacio Taboada Date
February 13th, 2018
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This presentation will describe an arc in the mathematical/theoretical physics research of the presenter that has traversed concept spaces from equations, to graphical imagery, to coding theory…
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S. James Gates, Jr. Date
March 26th, 2018
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