Global Educational Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology

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A natural history of scientistsSynopsis:
For most of his life, Richard Fortey, has worked with collections in London's Natural History Museum, so curation has become a kind of unbreakable habit for him. In his Michael Faraday Prize lecture he will present another collection: his own personal museum of scientists.		Science, General / HistoryUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Fortey, RichardJan 30, 200761Feedback
Ask Steve - Questions from Woodville Elementary, FLSynopsis:
Steve answers questions about the brightness of stars.		Science, General / GeneralElementary - ages 5-11Acquah, SteveMar 25, 20092Feedback
Benjamin Franklin in Europe: electrician, academician, politicianSynopsis:
Benjamin Franklin, American patriot and natural philosopher, was born 300 years ago. Apart from a brief stay in England as a young man, he spent the first fifty years of his life transforming himself from a nobody into the leading citizen of Philadelphia.		Science, General / HistoryUndergraduate - ages 18 - 22Heilbron, JohnNov 22, 200655Feedback
Bernal and the Social Function of Science - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the UK's Science Policy Research Unit introduces Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques which enabled the double helix structure of DNA to be unravelled. Bernal`s major impact on scientific research in the post-war industrialised economies through his 1939 treatise ''The Social Function of Science'' is discussed. The presentation and ensuing debate also probe the complex political pressures to which Bernal was subject during the period 1930-60.		Science, General / GeneralGeneral interest - all agesFreeman, Chris29Feedback
BuckyBall Workshop to IcelandSynopsis:
An Internet Buckyball workshop to 80 young children in Iceland which worked extremely well. It was the first test of the FSU Internet GEO project.		Science, General / GeneralMiddle - ages 11 - 14Kroto, HarryOct 26, 200546Feedback
Building Believable Synthetic CharactersSynopsis:
The scope of the research are Human Computer Interactions (HCI), non verbal communication, effective computing and believable characters.\n		Science, General / ComputingHigh - ages 14-19Shaarni, AhmadApr 06, 20099Feedback
Can we see atoms?Synopsis:
We see smaller and smaller objects through naked eye and microscopes, from hair to atoms.\n		Science, General / ChemistryMiddle - ages 11 - 14Zhou, ZhaoxiaApr 08, 20097Feedback
Continuing the voyages of the EndeavourSynopsis:
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin's address applies certain lessons learned from one of the Royal Society's greatest explorers to the endeavours NASA is carrying out today in exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets of our solar system and our own Sun.		Science, General / Remote SensingHigh - ages 14-19Griffin, MikeDec 01, 200656Feedback
Creating Virtual CellsSynopsis:
How computer modelling of cells can help biologists\n		Science, General / ComputingHigh - ages 14-19Walker, DawnDec 17, 20089Feedback
Discovery and CreativitySynopsis:
Discovery of atoms and molecules in interstellar space using spectroscopy and how it expands our ideas of our Earth's make-up.\nDiscovery of carbon-60 and creative ideas for the future.		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarryFeb 02, 200716Feedback
Discovery of C-60Synopsis:
The experiments in 1985 that uncovered the existence of C60		Science, General / GeneralGeneral interest - all agesKroto, HarryMar 03, 200610Feedback
Emotion Recognition from Physiological Signals for Human Computer InteractionSynopsis:
Use of physiological signals for emotion recognition and human-computer interaction\n		Science, General / ComputingMiddle - ages 11 - 14Palacios, Jorge ArroyoMay 22, 20096Feedback
Estimation - Educated Guesswork?Synopsis:
How can we make sensible estimates of very large numbers? It is often very important to know the size of an unknown number, at least to within a factor of ten. 		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Byfleet, ColinSep 28, 200713Feedback
Eyes in the Skies - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
We are being watched. A bewildering array of sensors are remotely observing everything on earth, from crops in Africa to the car parked outside your house. Will these aerial observations help us to save the Earth, or is science beginning to see too far into our lives? How has satellite imaging improved in the last fifty years, and what are the implications for privacy, earth observation and geosciences?		Science, General / Remote Sensing High - ages 14-19Various, Presenters29Feedback
GEO - Global Educational Outreach on the InternetSynopsis:
GEO philosophy - a wide ranging view of the benefits of science for human existence and our responsiblity for encouraging young people into studying science.		Science, General / GeneralGeneral interest - all agesKroto, HarryApr 18, 200722Feedback
Global Educational Outreach to IndiaSynopsis:
Harry Kroto addresses the final year students of the National Institute of Technology Calicut, India with a presentation on the Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering, and Technology.		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarrySep 23, 200947Feedback
Global Educational Outreach to ItalySynopsis:
Harry Kroto gives a presentation to the participants of the World Conference for Science and Peace held in Italy. The presentation stresses the importance of science and its global role.		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarrySep 24, 200919Feedback
Global Educational Outreach to MalaysiaSynopsis:
Harry Kroto sends the Geoset message to Kuala Lumpur		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarryAug 18, 200913Feedback
In conversation with Michael KashaSynopsis:
Nobel laureate, Harry Kroto, interviews Michael Kasha, who has had a distinguished career in science. He was at Berkeley during the Manhattan Project, worked as a graduate student with G N Lewis, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has designed a guitar played by Segovia.		Science, General / ChemistryGeneral interest - all agesKroto, HarryOct 19, 200460Feedback
Islam and science: beyond the troubled relationshipSynopsis:
The basic sources of Islam - the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad - place a great deal of importance on science. So, theoretically, the relationship between Islam and science is both close and very deep. It was this relationship that established science as an integral part of Muslim culture.		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Sardar, ZiauddinDec 12, 200575Feedback
John Cornforth - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Video of John `Kappa` Cornforth who was born in Australia, and has been profoundly deaf since his teens. He moved into the field of organic chemistry at Sydney University where he met his wife Rita. Together they moved to Oxford and had a profound influence on the work on penicillin during the war. In 1975 he received the Nobel prize for chemistry for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.		Science, General / BiologyHigh - ages 14-19Cornforth, John29Feedback
Joseph Rotblat 1 - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
The first part of an interview with a very remarkable man.		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Rotblat, JosephMar 21, 200237Feedback
Joseph Rotblat 2 - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
The second part of an interview with a very remarkable man.		Science, General / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Rotblat, JosephMar 21, 200540Feedback
Kroto conducts Klemperer, K80Synopsis:
An 80th birthday presentation to Bill Klemperer at Harvard		Science, General / GeneralGeneral interest - all agesKroto, HarryMar 10, 20075Feedback
Lindau - A Week With Nobel Laureates - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Each year some thirty or more Nobel laureates come to Lindau to give lectures and interact with around 1000 young scientists from around the world. In any one year the focus is generally on one area eg chemistry, physics, medicine or economics. The informal relaxed atmosphere enables the students to engage the scientists in informed and open-minded interaction. This unique formula attracts many representatives of the media and so encourages a dialogue between the scientific community and the public so contributing effectively to the general understanding of science and technology.\n\nThis documentary follows the experiences of 6 young British Ph.D students who competed to become some of the few British students previleged enough to attend the Lindau meeting of Nobel Laureates. A once in a life time experience we watch as these student prepare to meet their scientific heroes for the first time!		Science, General / GeneralGeneral interest - all agesVarious, PresentersMar 19, 200328Feedback

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