Videos Lecturer and topic Time Source Web Christopher deCharms - Inside the brain 4 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_scans_the_brain_in_real_time.html "communication with audience in the opening - shake hands, excellent body language, slides simple, headlines, animations, examples (MATRIX - good to remember)" Richard St. John - Success is a continuous journey 4 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_success_is_a_continuous_journey.html "opening with question, slides - simple animations, illustrative, funny - fater car / prozac, motto: ""Money can not buy hapiness"", same intonation all the time" Sean Gourley - Mathematics of war 7 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html Theo Jansen - Creates new creatures 8 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html Hans Rosling - Global population growth 10 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html excellent speaker Craig Venter - Creating synthetic life 15 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html Al Gore - Averting climate crisis 16 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_on_averting_climate_crisis.html "excellent gesture + facial gestures, makes jokes, changes in intonation" James Cameron - Before Avatar ... a curious boy 17 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html no science but interesting Craig Venter - Hostorical Announcement - Synthetic life 18 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html "Bonnie Bassler - How bacteria ""talk""" 18 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html Anthony Atala - Growing new organs 18 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue.html Hans Rosling - Let my dataset change your mindset 20 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state.html "mnemotechnic tools with boxes - illustrative + easy to remember, Swedish accent" Dan Gilbert - Why are we happy? 21 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html Larry Brilliant - Stop pandemics 25 min TED http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pandemics.html communicates with audience - asks to repeat after him Peter Sorger - Computational and systems biology at MIT 28 min MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/188 Lorey Hood - Systems biology 45 min MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/183 Phillip A. Sharp - The RNAi revolution 57 min MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/401 Andrew Endy - The implications of synthetic biology 64 min MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/363 Stephen Quake - Biological large scale integration 65 min MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/451 lecture starts at 6:23 Nobel Lecture by Craig C. Mello - Return to the RNAi world 69 min Nobel.org http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=87 Eric S. Lander - The Human Genome Project 71 min MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/25 Randy Pausch - Achieving your childhood dreams 96 min YOU Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo "example of good lecturer - entertaining, communication bad news in positive manner" ##### Sheet/List 2 ##### Collection of Lectures Source Web HHMI Biointeractive http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/ UCLA Society and Genetics http://www.socgen.ucla.edu/PastSpeakers.html Nobel Prize Lectures http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/ Nobel Prize Meeting Lindau Meeting http://www.lindau-nobel.org/LecturesOnline.AxCMS?ActiveID=1173