June 30 2008 - Physicist Brian Cox guides satirist Chris Morris around the Large Hadron Collider.
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Chris Morris visits the Large Hadron Collider
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Time’s Mysteries Part I: Marking Time
Time’s a mystery, yet we’ve invented clever ways to capture it. From sundials to atomic clocks, trace the history of time-keeping. Also, discover the surprising accuracy of nature’s dating schemes - from the decay of carbon to laying down tree rings.
Plus, why the "New York minute," stretches to hours in Rio de Janeiro: cultural differences in the perception of time.
Guests:
* Chris Turney - Geologist at the University of Exeter, UK, and the author of Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened * Demetrios Matsakis - Head of the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Time Service * Steven Jefferts - Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado * Robert Levine - Psychologist at California State University in Fresno and the author of The Geography of Time * Norman Mohr - Owner, Mohr Clocks, Mountain View, California -
Niall Ferguson - The New World of Finance
Financial historian Niall Ferguson knows humanity’s long trail of boom and bust cycles. But he is hardly buried in the past.
In the long run-up to today’s crisis, Ferguson was warning loud and clear that we were headed for trouble. He called it early, and he called it right.
Now, Ferguson is sizing up the mess we’re in. Bottom line guess, he says: we’re headed for ten percent unemployment and five-plus years of hard times.
On the other side, the world could look quite different. But the U.S., he says, still has some good cards to play. Saving graces.
This hour, On Point: Niall Ferguson, and the big view of the mess we’re in.
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/11/the-new-world-of-finance/
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The DOM scripting toolkit: jQuery
Led by Remy Sharp, this presentation will introduce, and demonstrate, how jQuery can be used to quickly and concisely apply JavaScript behaviour to your web app. It aims to cover most of the jQuery API - selectors, Ajax, DOM manipulation, plugins, and a few less known titbits. Remy’s talk is aimed at beginner-to-intermediate level JavaScript / jQuery peeps.
Tagged with skillswap jquery skillswap-brighton javascript remysharp
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David Lankes “The Library as Conversation”
Every librarian has “the story.†That story about linking a patron to a needed social service or helping someone get a job, or simply find the perfect book. These stories lie at the heart of the library. Books, videos, web pages, these are simply artifacts – tools to aid in the libraries true mission of building knowledge. The keynote will outline a vision of libraries as true and participatory knowledge organizations. Organizations that facilitate the conversations of their communities, not simply provide access to a collection.
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Hot, Flat and Crowded
Thomas L Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of our biggest challenges – the global environmental crisis and America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 – and shows how they’re linked. He argues that we need American commitment and leadership in a green revolution, a revolution that will be the biggest innovation project in history, one that will inspire us to summon all the intelligence, creativity, boldness and concern for the common good that are our greatest human resources.
(Oct 14, 2008 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
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Do Memes Shape Our Future? (part 1 Of 2)
Phil and Stephen, from The Speculist, talk about the importance of Memes and ask "How important are ideas in shaping the future"?
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Openness 2.0 - Part 1: The State of Openness
Welcome to Openness 2.0 a five part ongoing series brought to you by First Monday Podcast, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries.
In Part 1 Sandra Braman, Mary Case and Steve Jones breakdown the current state of Openness in policy, culture and academics.
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Marcus du Sautoy steps into Dawkins’ boots
We speak to mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, who is replacing Dawkins as chair for the public understanding of science at the University of Oxford
"It captures precisely the things that I love doing," Marcus du Sautoy tells Alok Jha and James Randerson as he prepares to take up the post of Simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at the University of Oxford in December.
"One is high-level science … and the other is communicating it. It gives me the brief to do the two things that I love doing." Accordingly, du Sautoy will continue to pursue his passion for prime numbers, number theory and group theory as professor of mathematics at Oxford.
Earlier in October he came into the studio to talk about The Story of Maths, a series of films he has made for BBC4 where he travels the globe looking for the roots of his subject.
As the new chair for the public understanding of science he will be stepping into the boots of Richard Dawkins, but he insists he won’t be pursuing his predecessor’s anti-religious agenda. "I’m bracing myself for people asking me whether I believe in god. I’m an atheist, but for me the important thing is the wonder of science. There are so many exciting things to talk about. My focus is going to be very much on the science and less on religion."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/audio/2008/oct/28/marcus-du-sautoy-richard-dawkins
Tagged with richard dawkins dawkins science mathematics maths simonyi marcus du sautoy
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Interview with Microsoft’s Steve Clayton - Geek in Disguise
This post/podcast is an interview with Steve Clayton. Steve is Microsoft’s UK Partner Group CTO and author of the popular Geek in Disguise blog.
Tagged with microsoft steve clayton sedley geek in disguise
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