Toni Morrison is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Litera...

How close are technologies to simulating or overtaking human intelligence and what are the implications for industry and society? Speakers: -Matthew Grob, Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Qualcomm, USA. -Andrew Moore, Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University...

“Every place you step, there’s 10,000 bacteria, most of which we've never seen,” said Brady, an associate professor at Rockefeller University in New York. Many of these bacteria behave in ways that aren't yet understood and produce molecules that haven't been seen before. He and his colleagues repor

Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. He stopped by The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert to demonstrate an exciting new sci...

In December 2022, California scientists achieved a major breakthrough -- a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was used to create it. Scientists have done it again and this time their results produced even more energy. Professor Peter Hosemann, chair of nuclear and mechanical eng...

In this eight installment of male contemporary and ballet dancers we include a training dance class to male dancers by Professor Jean Guilleme Bart at the Ballet de L'Opera de Paris and a n Excerpt from Mauro Bigonzettis ballet "Caravaggio". Drawing inspiration from the life and work of the Italia...

In GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE, two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson (Love, Actually) embodies the candor and apprehension of retired teacher Nancy Stokes, and newcomer Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders) personifies the charisma and compassion of sex worker Leo Grande. As Nancy embarks on a po...

Squirrels - the acrobats of the animal world - are helping scientists develop ever more agile smart robots. Engineers have got to the bottom of the split-second thinking of the bushy-tailed rodents. It enables them to leap and land - from the sturdiest wall to the flimsiest branch. The breakthrough...

This passionate talk from Dr. James O'Keefe MD gives us a deeply personal and fascinating insight into why homosexuality is indeed a necessary and extraordinarily useful cog in nature's wheel of perfection. James H O'Keefe MD, is a Board Certified Cardiologist and Director of both the Charles & Bar