Harvard University (videos of the past month: 01/30-02/24/2017)

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47:43 Lamia Joreige | Under-Writing Beirut—Ouzaï || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Lamia Joreige ’17 assembles elements from such diverse fields as film, history, and urban and po...
46:32 Jeff Gelles | Seeing the Birth of an RNA Molecule || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jeff Gelles ’17 examines the ways that genetic information is processed in living cells. It turn...
32:20 Leadership in Academic Medicine: A Conversation with Elizabeth Nabel Elizabeth Nabel has served as president of Brigham Health—comprised of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization—since 2010...
55:00 Hormone-Altering Chemicals: Fertility and Health Implications How can commonly found chemicals impact our health? This Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health was presented jointly with The Huffington Post. Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH....
1:37 Harvard Medical School researchers look at cocoa for health Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are conducting a massive, 18,000-person trial seeking answers to the question of whether cocoa is good for you. The COSMOS tri...
1:00:31 A QUIET READING: Jen Bervin & Dan Beachy-Quick | Woodberry Poetry Room WPR Creative Grant recipient Dan Beachy-Quick presents excerpts from his project---"A Quiet Book"---and Jen Bervin presents her innovative erasures of Shakespeare’s sonnets, in addition to her “Sil...
1:40 Harvard professor and Nas discussing Walt Whitman Hip hop artist Nas and English professor Elisa New study Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” as part of New’s course “Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop.” Here, the pair d...
57:28 Estimating Income Inequality from Binned Incomes with Paul von Hippel Researchers studying the gender wage gap often analyze data that puts income into bins, such as $0-10,000, $10,000-20,000, and $200,000+. Many methods have been used to analyze binned incomes, but ...
0:45 Folding the world record paper plane John Collins, who designed the distance world record for paper airplane flight, presented a workshop for students in the master’s in design engineering program, a joint program of Harvard’s Graduat...
1:01 A long loop through Harvard’s design school John Collins, who holds the distance world record for a paper airplane flight, launches a plane over Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s “trays” after delivering a talk on paper airplane design t...
0:59 Paper planes by world record holder soar from Harvard’s Science Center Six paper planes gave their lives for this shot as John Collins, who designed the world’s longest-flying paper airplane — more than 226 feet — tried his hand at launching from the windy roof of Har...
1:56:32 The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era Tuesday, January 31, 4–6 pm., Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Shorenstein Center on...
9:48 Lolly Bowean on how journalism can inspire us Lolly Bowean, reporter from the Chicago Tribune and Nieman Fellow, shares an inspiring story about how journalism can show us ways to change and contribute to the world.
This clip is from "The Fut...
1:17:15 Linking Non-Cognitive Skills & Educational Achievement to Girls in Developing Societies. Recent literature on non-cognitive skills provides promising evidence on the power of community and classroom based interventions for closing achievement gaps across school quality, race, and class...
1:50 When extinction stares you in the face A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History provides an artist’s view of extinction, a global crisis threatening many of our plant and animal companions on Planet Earth. The exhibit, Nex...
1:44 Creativity, medicine and the arts The Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School presents a series of workshops about the value of an ongoing relationship with the arts while in pursuit of a study of science as part o...