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Campbell Soups, Frosted Flakes and Sex11/14/06 - Linda Hancock is the director of the Office of Health Promotion at Virginia Commonwealth University. She's also an expert on social norms, and recently gave the Susan G. Grossman Lecture for the U.Va Women's Center. 56 students in the audience were given clickers to measure their response to Hancock's questions. The experiment provides some surprising answers. |
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Engaging the Mind: Hurricanes and Climate Change 11/3/06 - How and why do hurricanes form? Are we seeing more powerful storms because of climate change? That's one of the questions explored by Jose Fuentes, associate professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. He spoke at the U.Va Center in Roanoke as part of the University's Engaging the Mind series. |
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Successful Aging: Recent Findings and Implications for an Aging Society 10/23/06 - Dr. John Rowe is the former Executive Chairman of Aetna Inc., and the founding director of the Division on Aging at Harvard Medical School. He spoke in the Dome Room at an event sponsored by the U.Va Institute On Aging. |
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Space Flight: A Human Perspective 10/6/06 - Why is humanity driven to go into space? What are scientists learning from the first baby-steps taken off of Earth? Four-time space veteran Kathy Thornton explores these issues in an Engaging the Mind talk on "Space Flight: A Human Perspective." Thornton is Professor of Technology, Culture and Communications in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. |
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More than the Score: The Physics of Football 9/16/06 - Ever wonder why a football should be thrown in a spiral? Or why it's important for a football receiver to have soft hands? How a good tackle actually works? U.Va physics professor Lou Bloomfield demonstrates how the principles of physics apply to football before a gathering of alumni, as part of the More than the Score Pre-Game Lecture series. |
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Russian Forests, New Satellites and Computer Models: Unraveling Regional Carbon Dynamics and Feedbacks 9/7/06 - The U.Va Department of Environmental Sciences began its fall seminar series with a lecture from Hank Shugart. He discusses "Russian Forests, New Satellites and Computer Models: Unraveling Regional Carbon Dynamics and Feedbacks."
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Technology in World History (2 of 12) 6/14/06 - Bernard Carlson, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia, explores the ways that people have used technology to shape history, in "Technology in World History." In this installment I invite you to think about why did Africans domesticate cattle and donkeys, but not zebras. (2 of 12) |
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Primordial Sound: Eavesdropping on the Big Bang 6/3/06 - U.Va Astronomy Professor Mark Whittle explains to alumni how Big Bang Acoustics is one of the biggest developments in modern cosmology. |
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