http://www.thoughtware.tv/site/list Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:26:51 GMT Thoughtware.TV's RSS Video Feed http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5324 Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Jim Garvin, takes us on a journey to Mercury, Venus, Earth, the moon, near-Earth objects, and Mars. Why does space matter? Why is exploring the inner solar system so crucial? Where will humans and robots venture to next? In this video lecture... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5324 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5323 Jeff Herbst, VP of Business Development for Nvidia, talks to us about the 2010 Emerging Companies Summit, which is the premier event for emerging companies to show off software applications that are built on top of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) platform. http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5323 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5322 PyConAU 2010 KeyNote Presented by Mark Pesce Although Mark Pesce does know Python, he doesn't consider himself any sort of expert so he won't be talking about Python, except to whinge that his friends pick on him for choosing a language which uses whitespace as syntax. Try as he might, he can't... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5322 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5321 This is Part 4 of the interview with Randolph Nesse from "The Genius of Charles Darwin", presented by Richard Dawkins. In it an important question is asked: "Why has natural selection left our bodies vulnerable to disease?" http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5321 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5320 "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." Giordano Bruno -- burned alive by the catholic church in 1600, using real fl... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5320 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5319 The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is made up of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation, built and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro P... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5319 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5318 Does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? Perhaps. In August 2009, scientists announced the discovery of the amino acid, glycine, on the comet Wild 2. Amino acids provide key components for life here on Earth, but this is the first time we have definitive evidence of these molecules occurring in spa... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5318 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5317 In this popular video series, real astronomers answer common questions about astronomy. Part 1: "Where Is the Center of the Universe?" Dr. Varoujan Gorjian explains the mind-boggling expansion of the Universe. Where is the center of the Universe? This may seem like a simple question. Since t... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5317 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5316 Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). ... http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5316 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5315 Kokoro Co. Ltd.'s Actroid-F (previously unveiled by ATR as Geminoid-F) is shown close-up in this short video preview. http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5315 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5314 How do you give a robot a sharper sense of smell? By using genetically modified frog cells, according to Shoji Takeuchi, a bioengineer at the University of Tokyo in Japan. http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5314 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5313 Robisuke is a conversational robot developed at Waseda University's Kobayashi Lab to interact using natural language communication. http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5313 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5312 Researchers at ETH Zurich's Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems have used a fruit fly to steer a mobile robot through an obstacle course. They call it the Cyborg Fly. http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5312 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5311 Star Size Comparison: The biggest/largest known stars in the Universe. http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5311 http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5310 John Oliver presenting at the Economist's World in 2010 Festival http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/watch/5310