Talks and Lectures Released In 2008  »

Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which…

We live in a world of black and white. For hundreds of years, human skin color has been used as a marker of race. Now, science is…

Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies – in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some…

Biologist Richard Dawkins launches into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education….

In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead…

Simon is a Baltimore-based author, journalist and writer-producer of television, specializing in criminal justice and urban issues. He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of…

Michael Wesch focuses on how we as the generation of Web 2.0, connect with the world differently due to new media such as YouTube. With thousands of…

This is a John Shook v. William Lane Craig debate held at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Craig brings up the point several times that a…

The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It serves as an introduction to the fundamental science and…

This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection,…

There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine…