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Hermaphrodites: The Safer Sex Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3393 Date: February 12, 2009 What can a microscopic worm teach us about sex? Dr. Barbara Meyer emphasizes the value of studying the model organism C. elegans, a roundworm whic...

Kathryn Moler - Assistant Professor of Physics Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1680 Date: February 12, 2009 Kathryn Moler is assistant professor of physics at Stanford whose research focuses on the development of lacal magnetic probes and on their applica...

Forests Aflame: Strategies and Challenges for Managing Fire in the West Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3189 Date: February 12, 2009 Wildfires in western forests have become uncharacteristically severe, large, and frequent as a result of past forest management practices. Forests...

Deconstructing Obesity Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 To approach the problem of obesity scientifically, we must first define and measure it.  Dr. Friedman describes various methods fo...

Help Save America’s Pearly Mussels Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 Freshwater mussels serve as biological filters, food for wildlife, monitors of water quality, and the basis of a $50 million industry. &am...

Improbable Research and Public Support for Science Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3346 Date: February 12, 2009 Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the science humor magazine 'Annals of Improbable Research' and father of the Ig Nobel Pr...

Bridges to the Future, Part II: Water in 2025 Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3426 Date: February 12, 2009 From leaky municipal water systems to growing populations, water supplies in the U.S. face increasing pressure. As freshwater supplies decrease, ...

Civil Unions - CC #80 Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1689 Date: February 12, 2009 They’ve been called progressive steps for human rights and destructive actions against the moral fabric of society.  The Supreme Co...

Jefferson and Race Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1649 Date: February 12, 2009 For many of us, it has been years since a science teacher forced us to think about DNA. Now, as the controversy over Thomas Jefferson’s DNA resurf...

Deciphering the Language of Sex Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3482 Date: February 12, 2009 Even from a purely biological perspective, gender is a complex subject. Dr. David Page reviews the biological basis for sex, emphasizing the role ...

Food Safety in the Supply Chain Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 What weaknesses exist in the current U.S. food-supply chain? Find out how the system can be improved as we observe science and policy at work in a ...

Energy Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 5018 Date: February 12, 2009 As we gear up for war in the Middle East and watch oil prices soar, it is easy to understand that energy is a big issue. We have to somehow wean o...

America’s Crayfish Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 About 300 species of crayfish populate America’s freshwater environments.  This program examines their remarkable diversity, their...

Circle of Excellence: Mae Jemison Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1882 Date: February 12, 2009 This program features scientist and former astronaut Mae C. Jemison, the first woman of color in space, in an interview by Charlotte Bunch. From t...

Circle of Excellence: Mae Jemison Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1882 Date: February 12, 2009 This program features scientist and former astronaut Mae C. Jemison, the first woman of color in space, in an interview by Charlotte Bunch. From t...

Hurricane Katrina: Perspectives on Hurricane Forecasting Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 In a blow-by-blow account of Hurricane Katrina’s rampage, Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center, describes what went righ...

Is Science Fiction Science? (301) Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1602 Date: February 12, 2009 Science Fiction enables scientific creativity to break free, unrestricted by the laws of nature as we know them, and allows contemporary issues to...

Breaking the Code: Sequencing the Arabidopsis Genome Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 646 Date: February 12, 2009 In 1996, international research teams that have been decoding the genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed in the mustard family whose rapi...

Focus the Nation: Presentations from CSU Monterey Bay Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3480 Date: February 12, 2009 Three presentations: "Global Climate Change: Observations from Native America"; "A Geological Perspective on Climate Change and Global Warming"; ...

Field Notes from a Catastrophe - LIVE! with Elizabeth Kolbert Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 0 Date: February 12, 2009 Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming...

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