[정보] Science Broadcast - Closer to Truth (pbs)

 
 Closer to truth..
 
 자연과학, 우주, 현대물리학, 의학, 인간에 대한 탐구(심리학/신경과학),Computer,Technology 에 관한 토론의 주제를 갖고 각 분야의 저명한 학자들, 교수, 의사, 예술/문학가 등 다양한 분야의 전문가들을 게스트로 초청하여 토론을 진행하는 프로그램입니다.

 최신 과학동향(leading-edge science)과 현대 과학의 쟁점에 대해 다시 한번 생각해 볼 수 있고, esteemed experts는 어떤 소견을 갖고 있는지 들어볼 수 있어 유익하네요-

* 4 Main catagories
  : Brain & Mind, Biology & Medicine, Cosmos & Universe, Science & Our World

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Is Science Fiction Science? Science Fiction enables scientific creativity to break free, unrestricted by the laws of nature as we know them, and allows contemporary issues to be explored in radically different environments than the normal trappings. By definition, Science Fiction is a genre that creates alternate scenarios and then watches them play out. Participants   Michael Crichton Author, Producer, Director   David Brin, Ph.D. Author, Physicist   Octavia E. Butler Author, MacArthur Fellow

How Does the Autistic Brain Work? Crammed into our craniums, the three-pound human brain may be the most complex matter in the universe. And scientists are learning more about how it works by investigating how it doesn't work. A 13 year-old young man named Tito Mukhopadhyay may be the Rosetta stone for autism, revealing what it feels like to be autistic. Participants   Eric Courchesne, Ph.D. Prof. Neuroscience, UC San Diego   Portia Iversen Cure Autism Now Foundation   Tito Mukhopadhyay Autistic Youth, Author, Poet   Soma Mukhopadhyay Teacher, Mother   Erin Schuman, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Biology, Caltech   Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D. Dir., Computational Biology lab, Salk Institute

How Weird is the Cosmos? The Cosmos is weirder that we think. It's so weird that four experts can only sit around and laugh as they outdo each other in trading stories about amazing findings and discoveries. Participants   Roger Blandford Ph.D. Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech   David Goodstein Ph.D. Vice Provost, Caltech, Prof. of Physics & Applied Physics   Alan Guth Ph.D. Physics, MIT   Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, Director, Hayden Planetarium

Microbes -- Friend or Foe? Bacteria become resistant to our antibiotics. Viruses evolve with blinding speed. Prions may lurk in our meat. Anthrax is put into our mail. Stranger yet, could microbes be causing other illnesses, like cancers and heart attacks? Participants   Agnes Day, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Howard University   Paul Ewald , Ph.D. Prof. Biology, U. Kentucky   Alice S. Huang, Ph.D. Microbiologist, Sr. Councilor, External Relations, Caltech   Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D. Cell biologist, Dir. Beckman Ctr. for Molecular & Genetic Med., Stanford