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Origins: Astrobiology:  Talking with ET: The Language and Timescales of Interstellar Communication (Webcast)
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0:27:33
What if we did contact another intelligent life form in the universe? What should we say? What traits best represent our humanity? Douglas Vakoch, the SETI Institute’s Director of Interstellar Message Composition, is working with scientists, artists, linguists, composers, and others to imagine how to speak for our planet.

Project: Origins: Astrobiology: The Search for Life | Browse All

Date: November 22, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: douglas vakoch, seti, extraterrestrials, scientists, artists, linguists, composers, communication, language, communicate


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Origins: Astrobiology:  What About Intelligent Life? (Webcast)
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00:46:27
SETI is a scientific effort seeking to determine if there is intelligent life outside Earth. We were at Aricebo Radio Observatory in March 2003 when scientists listened to the most promising transmissions from UC Berkeley’s SETI@home search. Join the Exploratorium’s Ron Hipschman and special guest Dan Werthimer, chief scientist and principal investigator for the SETI Institute’s efforts, including Arecibo Observatory’s search of artificial radio signals coming from other stars.

Project: Origins: Astrobiology: The Search for Life | Browse All

Date: November 21, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: astrobiology, seti, search for extraterrestrial intelligences, interstellar communication, radio waves, drake equation, planet detection, planetary detection, primordial soup, designing interstellar messages, radio telescope, sky surveys, astropulse,


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Origins: Astrobiology:  Is There Life Elsewhere? (Webcast)
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00:58:53
How can a mathematical equation frame the question of life in the universe? We’ll talk with Frank Drake, one of the founders of the SETI Institute, about his famous equation and how it frames the search for signs of intelligent life in the universe.

Project: Origins: Astrobiology: The Search for Life | Browse All

Date: November 15, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: astrobiology, seti, search for extraterrestrial intelligences, intersteallar communication, drake equation, stars with planets, planetary detection, planet detection, primordial soup, radio telescopes, designing interstellar messages


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Osher Fellowship:  A Live Conversation with World-Renowned Biologist/Conservationist E. O. Wil (Webcast)
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00:33:44
In this archived program from 2003, join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning biologist E. O. Wilson, who introduced the term biodiversity to describe the interlocking dependence and diversity of organisms in sustaining life in biological communities.

Project: Osher Fellowship | Browse All

Date: August 28, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: osher fellow, biodiversity, astrobiology, diversity of life, chemical communication, watching ants, social behavior, ant society, entomology, pheremones, ants and social behavior, and communication in insects, ant colony, habitat destruction, all species surve


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Origins: Cold Spring Harbor:  Dr. Jan Witkowski (Webcast)
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00:13:41
Dr. Jan Witkowski, Executive Director of the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor, talks with us about the purpose of scientific meetings, about science as a social endeavor, and about some of the interesting people, events, and science stories that we can look forward to during the Biology of DNA meeting, which he coorganized with Dr. David Stewart, Director of Meetings and Courses at CSHL.

Project: Origins: Unwinding DNA at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Browse All

Date: February 26, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: biology of dna conference at cold spring harbor laboratory description, meeting dynamics, poster sessions, seminars, scientific communication


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Women's Health:  Explainer Perspectives:Teen Pregnancy (Webcast)
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0:50:36
This informative programming includes dispatches from the Young Women's Health Conference, a Webcast on breast cancer, and teen perspectives on pregnancy and gay issues.

Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All

Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology

Keywords: women's health issues, teens, teenagers, youth, explainers, pregnany, planned parenthood, birth control, peer pressure, prevention, sex education, unplanned, communication, lifestyles, counseling


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Women's Health:  Explainer Perspectives: Gay Issues (Webcast)
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0:37:21
This informative programming includes dispatches from the Young Women's Health Conference, a Webcast on breast cancer, and teen perspectives on pregnancy and gay issues.

Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All

Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology

Keywords: communication, self image, human sexuality, homophobia, queer bashing, teens, terenagers, explainers, peer pressure, lifestyles, coming out of the closet, hate crimes, counseling, gay issues,


Real: 35K  
 
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