The New Science of Building Great Teams
Artwork: Andy Gilmore, Chromatic, 2010, digital drawing
Featuring Alex “Sandy” Pentland
If you were looking for teams to rig for success, a call center would be a good place to start. The skills required for call center work are easy to [...]
God Particle’ Detected?: Higgs Boson Experiment Bearing Fruit
Creating new particles by smashing light speed traveling protons together in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is producing breakthroughs in physics. CERN spokesman Guido Tonelli explains the experiment and why it’s important.
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ScienceCasts: The 2012 Transit of Venus
NASA’s ScienceCast explains the history and astronomy behind the transit of Venus.
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It won’t happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit the face of the sun in an [...]
NASA’s Transit of Venus Sun-Earth Day Event!
Even if you don’t see a single picture from the transit, you’ve got to appreciate the role that the event has played over the centuries in planetary science. These two videos tell you more about the history of transit observations:
Transit [...]
Seven test tube twins born in 12 hours to create world record in Bulandshahr
Fourteen test tube babies were born using the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure to seven childless mothers in Bulandshahr.
Gist:
Uttar Pradesh doctors have set a new world record.
Fourteen test tube babies were born using the in-vitro [...]
Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based observatory, and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit of [...]
Student Orations || Harvard University Commencement 2012
Michael Velchik, Latin oration Anthony Hernandez, undergraduate oration Jonathan Service, graduate oration Once a series of thesis defenses, often presented in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, Harvard’s Commencement orations have evolved into [...]
Joshua Goodman on the Challenges Facing American Schools || American Conversation Essentials
Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor Joshua Goodman outlines the challenges facing American schools, and compares them to more successful school systems in other countries.
NCSE on Facebook
A milestone: there are now over 15,000 fans of NCSE’s Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the “Like” box by NCSE’s name? You’ll receive the latest NCSE news [...]
The mind’s eye revealed
New technology uses brain scans to see what a person is watching
Researchers have just wrapped production on a special movie of the mind that stars a brain scanner, a sophisticated computer program and millions of YouTube videos. By monitoring [...]
