The second program in the Multiple Scleroses From A to Z series is presented by the distinguished MS researcher and clinician, Dr. Jock Murray. Dr. Murray is acknowledged as the world's leading expert on the history of MS. He is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he has served as dean of Dalhousie Medical School, chairman of the Department of Neurology, and founder and director of the MS Clinic.
In this University of Maryland, Baltimore County program, Ed Beimfohr sits down with Christopher Corbett, author of "Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express," for a discussion of the beloved American myth of the Wild West. Behind the image of a lone rider galloping across the plains lie the facts: Where does the fiction end and reality begin?
Get an inside view of the University of Kentucky's Center for Manufacturing, which works to educate students, research solutions to industry issues and retain the state's manufacturers.
What is the experience of schizophrenia-- from the inside, as one with the disease, but also from the perspective of one who is close to the sufferer? Identical twins Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn Spiro reflect on their experiences with schizophrenia, and a bond between them stronger even than their twinship, vividly and insightfully captured in their dual memoir, Divided Minds.'
Step into the stars in this video from the National Science Foundation with David Charbonneau, associate professor of astronomy at Harvard University. Charbonneau, recipient of NSFs 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award, shares his research on the detection and characterization of extra-solar planets, known as exoplanets.
Nadjia Varney, host of School Talk, converses with Associate Professor of Educational Transformation, Mark A. Hicks. Dr. Hicks' approach focuses on affecting habits of mind and heart. The goal of his intense, extended course is to produce transformed teachers who, in turn, transform schools to create justice-oriented ways of thinking, learning, and being.
Andrew W. Lo, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Laboratory for Financial Engineering, breaks down the hot debate brewing about the cause of the current financial crisis. Learn the arguments for and against the claim that complex financial securities and the mathematical models used to manage them should take the blame. Was it systematically programmed or just human nature?
UMBC History Professor Emerita Sandra Herbert talks with host Dr. Joe Tatarewicz about her career as a Darwin scholar and her most recent book, "Charles Darwin, Geologist."
How have human hands molded the earths biomes? Dr. Erle Ellis, associate professor of geography and environmental systems, unveils the way humans are changing the planet with regards to land use in the biosphere. This University of Maryland at Baltimore County video is hosted by Karin Readel, lecturer in environmental science.
The presence of the Y chromosome triggers a human embryo to become male. Dr. David Page describes how the Y chromosome was once very much like every other gene-filled chromosome, but in the course of vertebrate evolution has lost almost every function except making males.
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