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National Academy of Sciences

This collection contains more than 150 lectures contributed by over 70 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

National Academy of Sciences Lectures

Anderson, Don L.

• Eclogite Engine

Annas, George J.

• American Bioethics after Nuremberg: Pragmatism, Politics, and Human Rights. Part I

Atwater, Tanya M.

• A Tectonic explanation of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan Earthquake
• A Tectonic explanation of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan Earthquake in Chinese (32421) translated by Supercourse China team

Ayala, Francisco J.

• Biology to Ethics: The Biological Roots of Morality
• Darwin’s Greatest Discovery: Design without Designer
• Evolutionary Origin and World Expansion of Malaria

Bazant, Zdenek P.

• MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part I
• MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part II
• NANO-MECHANICS BASED ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RISK, SIZE EFFECT AND LIFETIME OF QUASIBRITTLE STRUCTURES AT DIFFERENT SCALES

Beachy, Roger

• Controlling Pests and Diseases via Genetic Transformation: Examples from the Public

Berger, James

• CS&E and Statistics

Berner, Robert A.

• Geoscience Systems: Modeling oxygen and carbon dioxide over the past 600 million years

Berry, R. Stephen

• Energy: Mysterious and Amazing, Conserved and Conserving

Blumberg, Baruch S.

• Australia Antigen and the Biology of Hepatitis B
• Australia Antigen and the Biology of Hepatitis B in Chinese 14151 translated by Supercourse China
• CONSCIOUSNESS IN HUMANS AND ELSEWHERE
• HEPATITIS B VIRUS: COMMENTS ON VIRAL AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
• HEPATITIS B VIRUS. Discovery and Development
• Hepatitis B Virus.Discovery, the Present, and the Future

Breslow, Ronald

• HYDROPHOBIC AND ANTIHYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS ON ORGANIC REACTIONS

Cairns, John

• BIOSPHERIC CHANGES ARE THREAT MULTIPLIERS
• BIOSPHERIC FEEDBACK LOOPS AND RAPID GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
• BIOSPHERIC HEALTH AND INTEGRITY: THE TOP PRIORITY FOR HUMANKIND
• CARRYING CAPACITY FOR HUMANS IN A FINANCIALLY GLOBALIZED WORLD
• CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE BIOSPHERE
• CHAOS THEORY AND BIOSPHERIC “SURPRISES” in Spanish
• CHAOS THEORY AND BIOSPHERIC “SURPRISES” in Spanish translated by Nicolás Padilla Raygoza and Ana María Padilla Aguirre
• CLIMATE WARS, SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, AND THE FUTURE OF HOMO SAPIENS
• CRITICAL THINKING, THE COMMON GOOD, AND THE NEW NORMAL GLOBAL CLIMATE
• DEFINING GOALS AND CONDITIONS FOR NURTURING THE PRESENT BIOSPHERE
• DELIBERATELY CREATING AN ALIEN PLANET
• DENIAL OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: A MAJOR THREAT TO THE BIOSPHERE (AND YOU)
• EARTH’S BIOSPHERE: THE GLOBAL COMMONS
• Eco-Ethics and Sustainability Ethics to Protect the Biospheric Life Support System
• ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE BIOSPHERE
• ELIMINATING THE BIOSPHERIC REFUGEE CRISIS
• ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES: ETHICAL ISSUES INVOLVING OVERPOPULATION
• EVOLVING TOWARD AN EVIDENCE-BASED/ETHICAL VALUE-BASED SOCIETY TO NURTURE EARTH’S BIOSPHERE
• EXPANDING ECOTOXICOLOGY TO ENHANCE THE HEALTH OF THE BIOSPHERE
• FACING REALITY ON SUSTAINABILITY
• FOSSIL SUNLIGHT VS RENEWABLE SUNLIGHT
• FUTURE AVAILABILITY OF BIOSPHERIC RESOURCES: HOW WILL HUMANS FRAME THEIR WORLD VIEWS?
• GETTING TO KNOW HUMANITY’S LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM: EARTH’S BIOSPHERE
• Global Climate Pacts: Self Destructive or Successful?
• LIVING WITHIN BIOSPHERIC LIMITS
• MONITORING BIOSPHERIC HEALTH AND INTEGRITY
• MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION (MAD): THE BIOSPHERE, HOMO SAPIENS, AND THE HUMAN ECONOMY
• OIKOS, ECONOMICS, ECOLOGY, AND THE FUTURE OF THE SIXTH BIOSPHERE
• PROTECT THE WORLD’S CHILDREN: LEAVE A HABITABLE PLANET FOR POSTERITY
• REASON AWAKE: CATASTROPHES MAY FAIL TO CHANGE PUBLIC INDIFFERENCE TO BIOSPHERIC DAMAGE
• SLOWING DOWN BIOSPHERIC CHANGE in Spanish translated by Nicolás Padilla Raygoza and Laura Ruiz Paloalto
• SOCIETAL ADAPTATION TO A BADLY DAMAGED BIOSPHERE
• SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BIOSPHERIC LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
• THE CATASTROPHIC RISKS OF IGNORING THE “NEW NORMAL” CLIMATE
• THE EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES UPON BIOSPHERIC HEALTH AND INTEGRITY
• THE NINTH THREAT TO THE BIOSPHERE: HUMAN THOUGHT PROCESSES
• THE ULTIMATE TIPPING POINT: DESTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT BIOSPHERE
• TO SURVIVE, HUMANITY MUST LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LARGER SYSTEM OF WHICH IT IS A PART: THE PRESENT BIOSPHERE
• TRANSITION FROM A HUMAN CENTERED TO A BIOSPHERE CENTERED WORLD VIEW
• USING WITHOUT ABUSING THE BIOSPHERE
• USING WITHOUT ABUSING THE BIOSPHERE
• WARNINGS FROM THE BIOSPHERE
• WARNINGS FROM THE BIOSPHERE

Chien, Stu

• Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells Part I
• Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells Part II

Cohen, Joel E.

• Food Webs Augmented With Additional Data: Structure and Dynamics

Coifman, Ronald

• Diffusion Geometries, and multiscale Harmonic Analysis on graphs and complex data sets
• Harmonic Analysis, diffusion geometries and Multi Scale organizations of data and matrices

Cronin, James W.

• Auger Northern Observatory
• Detection of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
• Pierre Auger Observatory
• Properties of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from The Pierre Auger Observatory
• Solving the Mystery of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays: 1938 to 2007 cosmic rays
• The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays. Propagation and Detection

Danishefsky, Samuel

• Biology - Chemistry Frontier. Part 1. Roger Adams Award Lecture
• Biology - Chemistry Frontier. Roger Adams Award Lecture Part 1.

Demain, Arnold L.

• Actinomycetes: Contributions to Medicine

Dmowska, Renata

• Dynamics of rupture through branched and offset fault systems

Donoho, David

• An Information-Theoretic Approach to Traffic Matrix Estimation

Dressler, Alan

• IMACS Commissioning Report to the Magellan SAC

Dye, James L.

• My half-century with alkali metals. From alkali metal anions to anionic electrons

Elledge, Stephen J.

• Cell Division. Part I
• Cell Division. Part II
• GENETICS IS A STUDY OF HOW PROTEINS INTERACT, FOLD, AND FUNCTION. Part I
• GENETICS IS A STUDY OF HOW PROTEINS INTERACT, FOLD, AND FUNCTION. Part II

Fedoroff, Nina V.

• Flattening the World: The Role of Science and Technology Diplomacy in the 21st Century
• Genetically Modified Foods: Miracles or Monsters? Part I.
• Genetically Modified Foods: Miracles or Monsters? Part II.
• Genetically Modified Foods: Miracles or Monsters? Part III.
• Genetically Modified Foods: Myths and Realities
• Plant Epigenetic Mechanisms
• Where Will the Food Come From in a Hotter, More Crowded World?

Fienberg, Stephen E.

• Allowing Access to Confidential Data: Some Recent Experiences and Statistical Approaches
• Statistical Disclosure Limitation: Releasing Useful Data for Statistical Analysis
• The Interplay Between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice

Fraumeni, Joseph

• Genes and the Environment in Cancer Causation
• Genes and the Environment in Cancer Causation in Russian 29961 translated by Shubnikofs
• Genes and the Environment in Cancer Causation in Spanish 29961 translated by Nicolas Padilla

Friedman, Avner

• INTERACTION BETWEEN TUMOR & ITS MICROENVIRONMENT
• What is Mathematical Biology and how useful is it?

Gallistel, C. Randy

• An Information Processing Perspective on Conditioning

Goldhaber, Gerson

• The Discovery of Dark Energy

Golub, Gene

• Shape from Moments - An Estimation Perspective

Gostin, Lawrence O.

• Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health

Halver, John Emil

• How Oleic Acid in Olive Oil Reduces Blood Pressure
• How Se and C affect Fish Health
• Latest Facts for Fish and Shrimp Feed Formulations

Haussler, David

• Assembly, Comparison, and Annotation of Mammalian Genomes

Holdren, John P.

• Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being. Part I
• Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being. Part II

Hunter, Tony

• Tyrosine phosphorylation: from discovery to the kinome and beyond

Kaback, H. Ronald

• BIOENERGETICS OFION-COUPLED ACTIVE TRANSPORT
• Inaugural lecture
• MEMBRANE POTENTIALS AND pH GRADIENTS IN MICROSCOPIC SYSTEMS: THE CHEMIOSMOTIC PARADIGM
• THE MODEL SYSTEM: PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL MEMBRANE VESICLES

Kandel, Eric R.

• Molecular Biology of Memory: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses, Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute at Columbia

Kennel, Charles F.

• Earth Observations: The View from Scripps

Khush, G.S.

• Rice for Feeding half the World Population

Kim, Sung-Hou

• A Global View of the Protein Structure Universe and Protein Evolution

Leaf, Alexander

• The Beneficial Effects of Long-Chain, Polyunsaturated n-3 Fish Oil Fatty Acids on the Cardiovascular System Part I.
• The Beneficial Effects of Long-Chain, Polyunsaturated n-3 Fish Oil Fatty Acids on the Cardiovascular System Part II.

Lean, Judith

• Our Home in Space: The Sun-Earth System

Lederberg, Joshua

• Microbial Threats to Health in the United States: Natural and Manmade

Lehn, Jean-Marie

• Three-level Synthetic Strategy Towards Mixed-valence and Heterometallic [2×2] Gridlike Arrays

Li, Wen-Hsiung

• Evolution by Gene Duplication Part I
• Evolution by Gene Duplication Part II

Loftis, Elizabeth F.

• Illusions of Memory and Loss of Justice
• Illusions of Memory and Loss of Justice in Spanish translated 23041 by Nicolas Padilla

McLaughlin, David W.

• Kinetic Theory for the Dynamics of Fluctuation-Driven Neural Systems

Metzger, Henry

• Dual-Use Research: A Double Challenge for International Science

Meyers, A.I.

• Chiral Oxazolines - Their Legacy in Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation. Part I
• Chiral Oxazolines - Their Legacy in Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation. Part II

Molina, Mario J.

• The Mexico City Air Quality Case Study

Mumford, David

• Discovering the same things in two such different ways: Indian and Western Calculus
• Pattern Theory: the Mathematics of Perception

Navrotsky, Alexandra

• Energetics of Nanomaterials and Zeolites

Neher, Erwin

• Brainsignals, Synaptic Transmission and Short-term Plasticity

Ostrom, Elinor

• Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
• Halting Deforestation: Reflections from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Experimental Lab
• Sustaining Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach
• Why Development Aid Has Failed So Often

Pardee, Arthur B.

• Regulatory Molecular Biology

Rice, James R.

• Structure of Mature Faults and Physics of Their Weakening during Earthquakes. Part I
• Structure of Mature Faults and Physics of Their Weakening during Earthquakes. Part II

Richter, Burton

• Energy in the 21st Century
• GAMBLING WITH THE FUTURE: ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• Nuclear Renaissance

Rubbia, Carlo

• New Horizons
• Visible and Invisible Universe: A short commentary

Sachs, Leo

• The control of hematopoiesis and leukemia: From basic biology to the clinic

Schwarz, John H.

• STRING THEORY: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Sessler, Andrew M.

• 75 Years of Particle Accelerators. Part I
• 75 Years of Particle Accelerators. Part II
• An Introduction to Cancer Therapy With Hadron Radiation

Sternberg, Shlomo

• General covariance and the passive equations of physics

Tobler, Waldo

• Exploring Geography Cartographically. Part I
• Exploring Geography Cartographically. Part II
• Exploring Geography Cartographically. Part III
• Geographical Interpolation
• Geographical Movement - Maps and Models. Part I
• Geographical Movement - Maps and Models. Part II
• Geographic Location and Map Projections. Part I
• Geographic Location and Map Projections. Part II
• Map Making for Social Scientists. Part I
• Map Making for Social Scientists. Part II
• Qibla Maps
• Resel Processing. Part I
• Resel Processing. Part II
• The Care and Feeding of Vector Fields. Part I
• The Care and Feeding of Vector Fields. Part II
• The World is Shriveling as it Shrinks. Part I
• The World is Shriveling as it Shrinks. Part II
• Unusual Map Projections. Part I
• Unusual Map Projections. Part II
• Unusual Map Projections. Part III
• Using Asymmetry to Estimate Potential. Part I
• Using Asymmetry to Estimate Potential. Part II

Tonegawa, Susumu

• An Important Role of Neural Activity-Dependent CaMKIV Signaling in the Consolidation of Long-Term Memory

Van Allen, James A.

• The Modern Saga of Planetary Exploration

Wilczek, Frank

• HEP 2002: Summary and Prospect

Wilson, Kenneth G.

• The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory

Wyngaarden, James B.

• Physician Scientist

Zewail, Ahmed H.

• Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond

Zinkernagel, Rolf R.

• Infection. Tumor Grafts. Specificity. Memory. “Tolerance“

External links

• Elinor Ostrom: Lecture at the inauguration of the new Stockholm Resilience Center (May 2007)
• Eric E. Conn: Our Work with Cyanogenic Plants
• Kip S. Thorne: Gravitational Waves A Web-Based Course
• Kip S. Thorne: Lectures on the Web
• Tony Hunter: ASBMB Tabor lecture