brownbag recordings
We get some great lunchtime speakers at the Exploratorium, so I recorded some of their talks. Here they are!
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Eric
Mazur (Harvard University) Confessions of a converted lecturer |
Date: 1/25/07; Running time: 1 hour Eric discusses his career as a physics teacher at Harvard, and his transition from lecture to peer instruction. Download PowerPoint Presentation (2nd presentation here) |
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Tom
Nugent (LiftPort Group) Space Elevator |
Date: 9/15/2006 Tom discusses LiftPort Group's research and development efforts on creating a space elevator. Using a thin ribbon of carbon nanotubes, they envision sending cargo into space without the space shuttle. Download MP3 (26 MB) |
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Don Eigler (IBM-Almaden) and Eric Heller (Harvard) Atomic Imaging |
Date: 5/19/06 Don discusses his work manipulating atoms with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and explains how that works. Eric (Rick) Heller chimes in about his collaborations with Don, and shows some of his own artistic science images. Download MP3 (54 MB) Other resources:
Music: "Gina" by Victor Cajiao and Joe Cristina, copyright 1995 under Creative Commons license. |
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Eric
Heller (Harvard) |
Date: 5/23/06 Rick treats Stephanie Chasteen to an audio tour of one of his elegant images representing two-dimensional electron flow (see image to left; click for larger version). For more of Rick's images, visit the Heller Image Gallery Download MP3 (5MB) |
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Modesto
Tamez (Teacher Institute) |
| Date: 8/1/06 The Teacher Institute's own food and entertainment maven takes us on a whirlwind tour of our golden city. Find out the cheapest eats, the best place to see Art Deco or go kayaking, and where to get insulted while you get your sandwich. |
