This short, time-lapse video shows the changes in the Columbia Glacier from ...
This short, time-lapse video shows the changes in the Columbia Glacier from May 12, 2007 to August 20, 2010. Narration provides general description of the geophysical dynamics and processes.
A compilation of science update articles dealing with research on the use ...
A compilation of science update articles dealing with research on the use of testosterone to treat Multiple Sclerosis, research on plant hormone signaling and bioengineered plants, research into the properties Caulobacter crescentus bacteria and the creation of a new type of glue, and information on how vaccine fermenters operate.
A video from the Extreme Ice Survey in which Dr. Tad Pfeffer ...
A video from the Extreme Ice Survey in which Dr. Tad Pfeffer and photographer Jim Balog discuss the dynamics of the Columbia glacier's retreat in recent years through this time-lapse movie. Key point: glacier size is being reduced not just by glacial melting but due to a shift in glacial dynamics brought on by climate change.
A compilation of science update articles dealing with research of dolphin behavior ...
A compilation of science update articles dealing with research of dolphin behavior and rudimentary language particularly focusing on name recognition, new early research in Japan making a connection between kissing and reducing the effects of hayfever, research on Western Scrub jay behavior and the ability of these birds to visually recognize and remember each other, the creation of a new digital fish library that limits the need for the dissection of preserved specimens through the use of MRI technology.
Professor David Skuse explains that symptoms of autism are not precisely distinct ...
Professor David Skuse explains that symptoms of autism are not precisely distinct from 'normal' behavior.
Professor Christian Keysers explains that social cognition is a widely used term ...
Professor Christian Keysers explains that social cognition is a widely used term to describe how people relate to each other.
Professor David Porteous describes how his group was first alerted to the ...
Professor David Porteous describes how his group was first alerted to the DISC1 gene, which was found in a family with a pedigree of schizophrenia and psychoses.
As drugs for cognitive disorders improve, so does the temptation to use ...
As drugs for cognitive disorders improve, so does the temptation to use them even when one does not have a cognitive disorder?
Cytogenetics is the study of chromosomes and how changes in chromosome structure ...
Cytogenetics is the study of chromosomes and how changes in chromosome structure and number affect the individual. In this video, Professor Porteous describes the process of hunting for the DISC1 gene, a gene disrupted by a balanced translocation on chromosome 1q42.
Interviewee: Mary-Claire King DNAi Location:Applications>Genes and Medicine>gene hunting>the finish line Hearing BRCA1 ...
Interviewee: Mary-Claire King DNAi Location:Applications>Genes and Medicine>gene hunting>the finish line Hearing BRCA1 had been cloned Mary-Claire King recalls her reaction when she heard that the Skolnick team had successfully cloned BRCA1 and made it to the finish line first.
Doctor Josh Dubnau explains that model systems are particular species of animals ...
Doctor Josh Dubnau explains that model systems are particular species of animals that substitute for humans or other animals. For genetic and historic reasons, the fruit fly is a commonly used model.
Professor Daniel Weinberger predicts that because of recent progress in genomic research, ...
Professor Daniel Weinberger predicts that because of recent progress in genomic research, the future for schizophrenic research is extremely promising.
Professor David Van Vactor provides a simple explanation for why researchers work ...
Professor David Van Vactor provides a simple explanation for why researchers work with model systems (model organisms).
Interviewee: Mark Skolnick
Interviewee: Benno Muller-Hill, James Watson DNAi Location:Chronicle>in the third reich>"the final solution" ...
Interviewee: Benno Muller-Hill, James Watson DNAi Location:Chronicle>in the third reich>"the final solution" Gas chamber, part 1 Carbon monoxide gas was piped into a room disguised as a shower. "The final solution" to mental illness In September 1939, Hitler attacked Poland. Sterilizations slowed nearly to a halt, likely because most people who fit the legal crtieria had already been sterilized. Acting on Hitler's suggestion that incurable mental patients "be granted mercy killing," a panel of psychiatrists and medical doctors completed a one-page questionnaire on each of 283,000 patients in mental hospitals throughout Germany. More than one-fourth of cases, those who were incurable or could not work, were marked with a "íĘ" for death. In January, 1940 a shower room fitted with a carbon monoxide vent was first tested to kill patients at the psychiatric hospital in Brandenberg, outside Berlin. Gas chambers on the Brandenberg model were quickly set up at Bernberg and other sites around Germany to accept patients marked for death. In 1940-41, more than 70,000 patients were poisoned with carbon monoxide at these extermination centers. íćOther patients were starved; given sleeping pills, morphine or scopolamine; or slowly administered poisons to disguise the cause of death. No such ruse was thought necessary in Poland and East Prussia, where storm troopers simply shot thousands of mental patients. Benno Mí_ller-Hill takes James Watson on a tour of the gas chamber at Bernberg Psychiatric Hospital, one of six euthanasia facilities for mental patients established in 1940-41.
Professor Eric Kandel explains that the CA1 region of the hippocampus is ...
Professor Eric Kandel explains that the CA1 region of the hippocampus is important for representing and remembering spaces.
Doctor Abraham Zangen explains that clinical depression is extremely common, affecting one ...
Doctor Abraham Zangen explains that clinical depression is extremely common, affecting one in ten people at some stage in their life.
Eric Muller, science educator for the Exploratorium Teacher Institute in San Francisco, ...
Eric Muller, science educator for the Exploratorium Teacher Institute in San Francisco, CA, provides a hands-on, "feet-on" way of teaching about volcanoes and the layers of the Earth.
Interviewee: Mary-Claire King DNAi Location:Applications>Genes and medicine>gene hunting Families and pedigrees Mary-Claire ...
Interviewee: Mary-Claire King DNAi Location:Applications>Genes and medicine>gene hunting Families and pedigrees Mary-Claire King talks about the value of using the centuries-old tool of family pedigrees to gain insight into patterns of inheritance of genetic disorders.
Professor David Van Vactor explains how growth cones guide axons during neurodevelopment.