http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291439154.01291439157 Stanford Continuing Studies Program - Tracks en-us Education no Engineering - Audio - Testing Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Mission - GP-B has been described as the most elegant spacecraft ever built. Join Professor Francis Everitt for a lively explanation of GP-B's development. No scientific knowledge is necessary—just a keen imagination and the love of a good story. 1291652803 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:12 GMT Education C.W. Everitt 1:31:41 no Engineering - Audio - Materials to Heal and Rebuild the Human Body (Audio) - (February 28, 2008) Surgeons currently use common industrial materials inside the body to replace damaged body parts. However, if we want to replace more complicated body parts such as heart tissue or the spinal cord, we need better materials. 1520813788 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:28 GMT Education Sarah Heilshorn 1:24:56 no Engineering - Video - Testing Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Mission - GP-B has been described as the most elegant spacecraft ever built. Join Professor Francis Everitt for a lively explanation of GP-B's development. No scientific knowledge is necessary—just a keen imagination and the love of a good story. 1291570849 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:29 GMT Education C.W. Everitt 1:28:58 no Engineering - Video - Materials to Heal and Rebuild the Human Body (Video) - (February 28, 2008) Surgeons currently use common industrial materials inside the body to replace damaged body parts. However, if we want to replace more complicated body parts such as heart tissue or the spinal cord, we need better materials. 1520174946 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:16 GMT Education Sarah Heilshorn 1:24:56 no Technology - Audio - Brainstorms: Making Pictures of What We See Every Day - (April 26, 2007) Behind the scenes of computer graphics are complex models and sophisticated simulations. In this lecture, we will look behind the “scenes,” and see how the magic tricks are done. 1310492003 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:43:41 GMT Education Pat Hanrahan 1:29:03 no Technology - Audio - Brainstorms: From Dust to Dust: Examining Cometary Particles - (February 28, 2007) This is the first public report at Stanford of what Richard N. Zare and his associate, Maegan K. Spencer, found as Stardust Preliminary Examination Team (PET) participants. A big question that scientists want to answer is whether comet 1318066260 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:32:56 GMT Education Richard Zare 1:36:37 no Technology - Audio - Brainstorms: Computing and the Problem of Evil - (November 7, 2008) Computers and the Internet have changed business, education, entertainment, and recreation dramatically over the past two decades. But there are some problems. For example, why are computer systems vulnerable to worms and viruses? Can't 1474799493 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:36:38 GMT Education John Mitchell 1:21:05 no History - Audio - How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps? - (April 5, 2007) For over 2,000 years, nobody has been able to identify with certainty the route that Hannibal used to cross the Alps in 218 BCE with 25,000 men and 37 elephants to the astonishment of the Romans. Now a Stanford team, under the direction of 1304676554 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:24:39 GMT Education Patrick Hunt 1:26:09 no History - Audio - Medieval Matters: Modern European Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past - (November 14, 2007) Patrick Geary examines contemporary uses of the Middle Ages by various political movements, left and right, in Europe today. He explores how modern-day Europeans proudly attempt to trace their national identities to medieval origins, l 1427523400 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:33:28 GMT Education Patrick Geary 1:22:56 no History - Audio - Rumi as a Healer: A Physician's Perspective - (January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, a learned theologian, and a foe of 1443466747 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:45:52 GMT Education Camran Nezhat and Evaleen Jones 0:45:09 no History - Audio - In Search of the Historical Rumi - (January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, a learned theologian, and a foe of 1436626699 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:45:56 GMT Education Franklin Lewis 0:28:58 no History - Audio - Rumi the Poet: Self-Portrayal, Dialogue and Image-Making - (January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, a learned theologian, and a foe of 1436675772 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:46:12 GMT Education Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak 0:29:17 no History - Audio - Hermeneutics, Self-realization, and Cosmology in the Spiritual Couplets (Mathnawi) of Rumi and The Masnavi - (January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, a learned theologian, and a foe of 1443679645 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:46:43 GMT Education Mohammad Haghi, Mohammad Este'lami, Abbas Milani (Moderator) 1:19:24 no History - Audio - Unsilencing the Sacred Self: the Music of Communication with the Divine - (January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, a learned theologian, and a foe of 1437036733 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:46:46 GMT Education The Liän Ensemble and Fatemeh Keshavarz 1:11:39 no Philosophy - Audio - Life Science Symposium: Bodies Changed to Light - Join three of Stanford's most imaginative and articulate humanists for a poetic, philosophical, and historic reflection on this universal experience: the end of life. 1292845507 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:53:10 GMT Education Andrea Nightingale, Robert Pogue Harrison, and Thomas Sheehan 2:43:43 no Healthy Living - Audio - Improving Children's Heart Health - (March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what are we doing about it. They examine the perceptions and realities of heart disease in America and new and emerging treatments that are be 1310967184 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:23:13 GMT Education Dr. Thomas Robinson 0:48:22 no Disease - Audio - Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure - (March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what are we doing about it. They examine the perceptions and realities of heart disease in America and new and emerging treatments that are be 1311114623 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:37:51 GMT Education Dr. Robert C. Robbins 0:55:30 no Research - Audio - Current Therapies for Heart Disease - (March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what are we doing about it. They examine the perceptions and realities of heart disease in America and new and emerging treatments that are be 1310819775 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:23:04 GMT Education Dr. Mark A. Hlatky 0:26:57 no Mental Health - Audio - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - Philip G. Zimbardo is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford. His work and research have addressed such issues as prisons, violence and evil, persuasion, political psychology, and terrorism. He describes how the situational forces at the Abu Ghrai 1291965392 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:13 GMT Education Philip G. Zimbardo 0:49:41 no Biology - Audio - Looking into the Brain (Audio) - (April 29, 2008) Understanding how thought and emotion are realized in the human brain is a remarkable enterprise. How a mere three-pound collection of nerve cells gives rise to human art, wisdom, and passion is one of the central mysteries of our existen 1529248683 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:26:56 GMT Education Brian Wandell 1:49:50 no United States Politics - Audio - An Evening with Geoff Nunberg: The Paradox of Political Language - There's a paradox in modern attitudes about political language. Left and right may disagree as to which expressions count as deceptive packaging and which are merely effective branding, but both acknowledge that the American public is particularly suscept 1292685129 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:54 GMT Education Geoff Nunberg 1:42:18 no International Economics - Audio - European Roundtable: The EU in Crisis? Difficult Choices between Integration and Expansion - An expert team of scholars from Stanford and beyond addresses these and other issues in the light of recent developments and on the basis of a sober assessment of both the problems and promises that lie ahead on the road to further European integration. 1291965372 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:06 GMT Education Marina Bourgain, Christophe Crombez, Meredith Heiser, Timothy Josling 2:43:06 no Human Rights - Audio - Torture Sexual Politics and the Ethics of Photography - Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley. She discusses the photographs of prisoners abused by at Abu Ghraib, drawing on the work of Susan Sontag and Emmanuel Levinas. 1292781236 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:57:04 GMT Education Judith Butler 1:25:33 no Human Rights - Audio - Torture Policy at Abu Ghraib: Military Use of Science for the Control of the Country - Gerald Gray is the author of Psychology and US Psychologists in Torture and War in the Middle East. In his talk, Gerald Gray stresses the importance of offering appropriate treatment for survivors of torture. 1292733248 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:01:25 GMT Education Gerald Gray 0:26:07 no Human Rights - Audio - The Poisoned Chalice: Humanity at Nuremberg and Now - David J. Luban is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown Law School and Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School. He looks at how Nuremberg shaped the conventions for dealing with prisoners of war. 1291752339 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:54 GMT Education David J. Luban 0:25:20 no Human Rights - Audio - The Law of Torture - Jenny S. Martinez is Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford. She explores torture within the context of Western and American legal traditions. 1292717791 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:01:25 GMT Education Jenny S. Martinez 0:26:55 no Human Rights - Audio - Into the Light of Day: Human Rights after Abu Ghraib - Mark Danner is a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to the New York Review of Books, writing on foreign affairs and American politics. He explores how the Bush administration developed its policies for dealing with prisoners taken in Iraq and 1292846045 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:57:04 GMT Education Mark Danner 1:18:04 no Human Rights - Audio - Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib - Seymour Hersh is one of the nation's premier investigative journalists. He gained worldwide recognition for his exposure of the My Lai massacre and its cover up during the Vietnam War and again in 2004 for his disclosure of prison abuse at the Abu Ghraib 1292781252 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:57:04 GMT Education Seymour Hersh 1:46:57 no Globalization - Audio - European Roundtable: "Stretching the Safety Net: Is the European Welfare State in Crisis" - Torn between the time-honored social democratic traditions of equal opportunity and the protection of the needy and the pressures of demographic change and declining public resources, European governments are finally confronting the limits of the welfare 1292765090 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:48:05 GMT Education Marina Bourgain, Jonah Levy, Isabela Mares, and Hans N. Weiler (Moderator) 2:45:34 no