http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1466791451.01466791454 Leading Matters - Seattle Leading Matters is a 17-event city tour presented by Stanford University. It features academic panels that reveal how Stanford is addressing the challenges of the 21st century. en-us Education no Environmental Science - Audio - Big Plans for a Small Planet: Can We Feed the World Without Wrecking the Oceans? - (January 26, 2008) This panel explores the environmental impact of marine aquaculture and strategies for “greening” fish farming, land/water interactions, dynamics in coastal zones, and some of the tough regulatory and policy issues at hand. 1463793615 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:49:58 GMT Education Meg Caldwell, Jeffrey Koseff, Rosamond Naylor, Pamela Matson (Moderator) 1:27:04 no Environmental Science - Audio - Vulnerability of People and Ecosystems in a World of Global Environmental Change - (January 26, 2008) Professors Vitousek and Matson give a brief overview of global environmental changes, their causes and the uneven distribution of their consequences for people and societies. They then lead a conversation about how people and ecosystems 1463925059 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:49:59 GMT Education Pamela Matson and Peter Vitousek 1:01:03 no History - Audio - The First Great Divergence: China and Europe - (January 26, 2008) Six hundred years ago China was the most powerful state on Earth and seemed destined to become the world’s first global power. But that did not happen. Scholars have been asking for more than a hundred years why the Chinese and European 1464203381 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:50:27 GMT Education Ian Morris and Richard Saller 0:55:19 no Fine Art - Audio - Your Brain on Art - (January 26, 2008) Stanford researchers are investigating how the brain responds to the visual and dramatic arts, music and literature. Faculty from the arts, neuroscience and psychiatry discuss their groundbreaking work in this area. 1464285368 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:02:14 GMT Education Jonathan Berger, Vinod Menon, Blakey Vermeule, Harry Elam (Moderator) 1:33:21 no Education Policy - Audio - The New Educational Landscape - (January 26, 2008) The deans of the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business have a vision that integrates cutting-edge knowledge from their separate fields to design and manage high-performing schools and other educational organizations. W 1463318494 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:53:44 GMT Education Robert Joss and Deborah Stipek 0:59:36 no Research - Audio - Healing Wounds, Curing Cancer and Breathing Easier: Engineering Therapies for Human Health - (January 26, 2008) In the coming decades, engineers have an unprecedented opportunity to join the ranks of healers by creating precise and powerful technologies to fight disease and repair injury. This emerging field—called bioengineering—fuses engineerin 1474570480 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:33:11 GMT Education James Plummer, Jennifer Cochran, and Annelise Barron 0:59:42 no United States Politics - Audio - Presidential War Powers - (January 26, 2008) What rights should a president have when national security is threatened? In times of war, the historical debate about separation of powers comes to the fore. The questions become even more complicated in “nontraditional wars.” How can 1463662582 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:58:22 GMT Education Larry Kramer and Jenny Martinez 1:00:45 no Globalization - Audio - Emerging Superpowers: Influence and Supremacy in the 21st Century - (January 26, 2008) The landscape of world power has evolved dramatically since the end of the cold war. What nations are considered “up and comers” in the 21st century? What are the key elements in the making of a current “superpower”? The panelists discu 1463171143 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:55:39 GMT Education Michael McFaul, William Perry, Steve Stedman, Robert Joss (Moderator) 1:31:11 no