Amishi Jha: Building Attention
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Amishi Jha is a brain scientist who is working on ways to train brains to pay better attention. How can mindfulness training help people in high-stress situations -- from medical staff to soldiers -- better navigate their challenging environments?
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- -: Amishi Jha: Building Attention
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Amishi Jha is a brain scientist who is working on ways to train brains to pay better attention. How can mindfulness training help people in high-stress situations -- from medical staff to soldiers -- better navigate their challenging environments?
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- -: Amro Hamdoun: Cell Self-Defense
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Cell biologist Amro Hamdoun seeks to understand the systems that cells and embryos use to protect themselves against chemical pollution. Why do some "bad" chemicals make it into cells, and how can we predict which ones will as we develop even more chemicals?
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- -: Ben Dubin-Thaler: Science by Bus
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Ben Dubin-Thaler, a biologist and founder of Cell Motion Laboratories Inc., drives the BioBus, a remodeled yellow school bus outfitted with a high-tech science lab that serves as a mobile laboratory to get kids interested in science.
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- -: Beth Shapiro: What Goes Extinct?
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro explores the influences of climate and humans in determining species extinction. Why did brown bears survive while giant beavers didn't? Her cutting-edge DNA research is helping us make informed decisions about how to preserve the species that are currently und...
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- -: Brian Hare: Peaceful as a Bonobo?
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)What can human society learn from bonobo behavior? Brian Hare studies primates' and non-primates' social skills and asks whether areas of their evolution have surpassed our own.
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- -: Gidon Eshel: The Impact of Food
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Gidon Eshel is a statistician who grew up working on a dairy farm on an Israeli Kibbutz, a combination that's led to a deep knowledge of how what we eat affects our planet. His finding: a meat-based diet far exceeds the carbon emissions of a plant-based diet -- meaning that most people's usual wa...
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- -: Kim Cobb: How Climate Changes
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Kim Cobb studies the climate variability of the past in order to construct a sense of what we can expect in the future. Having a clearer sense of rainfall, for example, over the next 100 years will be incredibly valuable in informing public policy.
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- -: Sarah Fortune: Fighting TB
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Why is tuberculosis so resistant to treatment? Sarah Fortune studies the bacterium that causes tuberculosis as well as how it responds to various eradication efforts, with a view to more effectively fighting this increasingly common global scourge.
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- -: Sean Gourley: Tracking innovation
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Sean Gourley is a mathematician who has spent the last seven years using math to understand war and insurgency. He is now applying that understanding to develop ways to map technology companies -- in search of the "technology genome."
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- -: Sinan Aral: Social Contagion
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Sinan Aral's two areas of interest are behavioral contagions and causality. He believes that if we can understand how behavior is spread in a population, there's the potential to promote good behaviors such as condom use and tolerance and to deter behavior like smoking and violence.
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