Stanford Office of Science Outreach - Tracks http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291848729.01291848732 Stanford Office of Science Outreach - Tracks en-us Education no Back to Life: The Rebirth of the Monterey Coast - An Environmental Success Story for a Change Environmental Science - Audio - Back to Life: The Rebirth of the Monterey Coast - An Environmental Success Story for a Change - With stops and starts, the marine environment of Monterey Bay has been improving—it is probably healthier and more natural than anytime in the previous two centuries. Though not pristine, it's an example of successful rebirth of an environment. 1292731924 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:47 GMT Education Stephen Palumbi 1:10:44 no Back to Life: The Rebirth of the Monterey Coast - An Environmental Success Story for a Change Environmental Science - Video - Back to Life: The Rebirth of the Monterey Coast - An Environmental Success Story for a Change - With stops and starts, the marine environment of Monterey Bay has been improving—it is probably healthier and more natural than anytime in the previous two centuries. Though not pristine, it's an example of successful rebirth of an environment. 1292684131 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:08 GMT Education Stephen Palumbi 1:11:00 no Archimedes: Ancient Text Revealed with X-ray Vision Natural Science - Audio - Archimedes: Ancient Text Revealed with X-ray Vision - The 10th century “Archimedes Palimpsest” is the unique source for two of the great Greek's treatises. Some of the writings, hidden under gold forgeries, have recently been revealed at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at SLAC. 1291652737 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:12 GMT Education Uwe Bergmann 1:08:50 no 100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects Natural Science - Audio - 100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects - Mark and Mary Lou talk about the current status of earthquake prediction efforts, including the potential for breakthroughs from exciting new experiments they are carrying out in addition to sharing information about a recent discovery of seismic rumbling 1292796360 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:13 GMT Education Mark Zoback and Mary Lou Zoback 1:19:06 no Archimedes: Ancient Text Revealed with X-ray Vision Natural Science - Video - Archimedes: Ancient Text Revealed with X-ray Vision - The 10th century “Archimedes Palimpsest” is the unique source for two of the great Greek's treatises. Some of the writings, hidden under gold forgeries, have recently been revealed at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at SLAC. 1291521669 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:39 GMT Education Uwe Bergmann 1:09:13 no 100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects Natural Science - Video - 100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects - Mark and Mary Lou talk about the current status of earthquake prediction efforts, including the potential for breakthroughs from exciting new experiments they are carrying out in addition to sharing information about a recent discovery of seismic rumbling 1292747276 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:29 GMT Education Mark Zoback and Mary Lou Zoback 1:19:28 no Using Evolution to Understand Human Health and Disease Public Health - Audio - Using Evolution to Understand Human Health and Disease - Learn about the discovery that the genetic “hardware”—the genes and proteins that do the work—are for the most part dramatically similar among seemingly different animals. Most discoveries in one organism can be used to guide research in another. 1292717879 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:39 GMT Education Matthew Scott 1:56:15 no Using Evolution to Understand Human Health and Disease Public Health - Video - Using Evolution to Understand Human Health and Disease - Learn about the discovery that the genetic “hardware”—the genes and proteins that do the work—are for the most part dramatically similar among seemingly different animals. Most discoveries in one organism can be used to guide research in another. 1292781337 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:39 GMT Education Matthew Scott 1:56:30 no Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Science, Ethics, and Politics Research - Audio - Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Science, Ethics, and Politics - Human embryonic stem cells are among the most promising, most complicated, and most controversial areas of contemporary biomedical research. 1291523063 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:42:39 GMT Education Julie Baker and Henry T. Greely 1:31:45 no Regenerative Medicine: What Is It? Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? Research - Audio - Regenerative Medicine: What Is It? Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? - (June 28, 2007) Dr. Michael Longaker, Director or Childrens Surgical Research explains how regenerative, reparative, replacement and tissue engineering medicine represent an emerging field that holds great promise for core problems in medicine world wide. 1334943934 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:28:32 GMT Education Michael Longaker 1:30:30 no Recent Advances in Heart Surgery (Audio) Research - Audio - Recent Advances in Heart Surgery (Audio) - (July 12, 2007) Dr. Robert Robbins delivers cutting-edge information on the state of research, the newest studies, and the latest treatment for cardiovascular disease. Specifically, he will focus on heart transplantation and the use of stem cells to treat 1351883206 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:54:29 GMT Education Robert Robbins 1:26:01 no Cool Hands, Better Performance Research - Audio - Cool Hands, Better Performance - (July 26, 2007) Professor Heller’s lab has created a “glove” that can quickly extract or insert heat in our bodies. He shares with us how and why this novel technology is being developed and its potential to improve the quality of human life and our bodie 1354640825 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:24:55 GMT Education H. Craig Heller 1:05:35 no Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All Research - Audio - Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All - (August 9, 2007) In this talk, Russ reviews how genetic variation can affect drug response, and discuss a few examples of variation in commonly used medications. He also touches upon the ethical issues that arise when using genetic information to make dec 1357652233 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:39:05 GMT Education Russ Altman 1:28:40 no Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Science, Ethics, and Politics Research - Video - Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Science, Ethics, and Politics - Human embryonic stem cells are among the most promising, most complicated, and most controversial areas of contemporary biomedical research. 1292489661 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:57:04 GMT Education Julie Baker and Henry T. Greely 1:31:58 no Regenerative Medicine: What Is It? Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? Research - Video - Regenerative Medicine: What Is It? Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? - (June 28, 2007) Dr. Michael Longaker, Director or Childrens Surgical Research explains how regenerative, reparative, replacement and tissue engineering medicine represent an emerging field that holds great promise for core problems in medicine world wide. 1335418928 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:50:27 GMT Education Michael Longaker 1:30:30 no Recent Advances in Heart Surgery (Video) Research - Video - Recent Advances in Heart Surgery (Video) - (July 12, 2007) Dr. Robert Robbins delivers cutting-edge information on the state of research, the newest studies, and the latest treatment for cardiovascular disease. Specifically, he will focus on heart transplantation and the use of stem cells to treat 1348532894 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:54:29 GMT Education Robert Robbins 1:26:01 no Cool Hands, Better Performance (Video) Research - Video - Cool Hands, Better Performance (Video) - (July 26, 2007) Professor Heller’s lab has created a “glove” that can quickly extract or insert heat in our bodies. He shares with us how and why this novel technology is being developed and its potential to improve the quality of human life and our bodie 1357073634 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:20:37 GMT Education H. Craig Heller 1:05:35 no Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All (Video) Research - Video - Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All (Video) - (August 9, 2007) In this talk, Russ reviews how genetic variation can affect drug response, and discuss a few examples of variation in commonly used medications. He also touches upon the ethical issues that arise when using genetic information to make dec 1355068505 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:21:59 GMT Education Russ Altman 1:28:40 no