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March 13, 2006
Looking for Life in All The Wrong Places
Cassini and Huygens at the Saturn System
Reta Beebe,
New Mexico State University
54 min.
March 20, 2006
Could We Tell Life If We Saw It?
ALH84001 in 2004
Joe Kirschvink,
California Institute of Technology
34 min.
March 27, 2006
Part II: Could We Tell Life If We Saw It?
Potential for Early Life Hosted
in Basaltic Glass on a Wet Mars
Neil R. Banerjee,
University of Alberta, University of Bergen, Norway
11 min.
April 3, 2006
Part III: Could We Tell Life If We Saw It?
Life in Ice on Mars
Christopher P. McKay,
NASA Ames Research Center
28 min.
April 10, 2006
Less Tar, More Life
Constraining Scenarios for the Origin of Life: Working Backwards, Working Forwards, and Synthesizing Life in the Laboratory
Steven Benner,
University of Florida
27 min.
April 17, 2006
Part I: Planetary-scale Patterns
The Dynamics of Global Biodiversity:
Insights from the Fossil Record
David Jablonski,
University of Chicago
35 min.
April 24, 2006
Part II: Planetary-scale Patterns
Auditing the Earth: Present Changes,
Future Changes, and Irreversibility
Stuart Pimm,
Duke University
35 min.
May 1, 2006
Part I: Is Evolution Sufficient?
Accelerating Problem Solving by Combining
Machine Learning and Human Learning
David Fogel,
Natural Selection, Inc.
28 min.
May 8, 2006
Part II: Is Evolution Sufficient?
The Challenge of Intelligent Design
Eugenie Scott,
National Center for Science Education, Inc.
62 min.
May 15, 2006
Part III: Is Evolution Sufficient?
A Planetary Perspective on Evolution
Andrew Knoll,
Harvard
35 min.
May 22, 2006
Part I: Astrobiology
Planets Around Other Stars
Heidi Hammel,
Space Science Institute
43 min.
May 29, 2006
Part II: Astrobiology
Exoplanets, Yellowstone, & the Prospects for Alien Life
Geoff Marcy,
University of California, Berkeley
52 min.
June 5, 2006
Part III: Astrobiology
Taking the Galactic Planetary Survey
Gregory Laughlin,
University of California, Santa Cruz
35 min.
June 12, 2006
Part IV: Astrobiology
New Worlds Imager
Webster Cash,
University of Colorado, Boulder
33 min.
June 19, 2006
Part V: Astrobiology
Sympathy for the Devil:
The Case for Life on Venus
David Grinspoon,
Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
33 min.
June 26, 2006
Part VI: Astrobiology
Surficial Geology of the Sprit Rover Traverse
in Gusev Crater: Dry and Desiccating
Since the Hesperian
Matt Golombek,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
20 min.
July 3, 2006
Part VII: Astrobiology
The MER Mission and the Stratigraphic History
of the Meridiani Planum
Steven Squyres,
Cornell University
34 min.
July 10, 2006
Part VIII: Astrobiology
Evolution of the Early Atmospheres
of Venus, Earth and Mars
David Catling,
University of Bristol
23 min.
July 17, 2006
Part IX: Astrobiology
Extremophiles and the Physical Limits
of Life on Earth... and Mars
Lynn J. Rothschild,
NASA Ames Research Center
38 min.
July 24, 2006
Part X: Astrobiology
Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms —
A Possibility for Extraterrestrial Life?
Harald Huber,
University of Regensburg
38 min.
July 31, 2006
Part XI: Astrobiology
Biology and the Future of Mars
Christopher P. McKay,
NASA Ames Research Center
15 min.
August 7, 2006
Part XII: Astrobiology
Robotic Lunar Ecopoesis Test Bed
Paul Todd,
Space Hardware Optimization Technology, Inc.
30 min.
August 14, 2006
Part XIII: Astrobiology
Redesigning Living Organisms for Mars
Amy Grunden and Wendy Boss,
North Carolina State University
35 min.
August 21, 2006
Part XIV: Astrobiology
Uncovering Extraterrestrial Intelligence:
When Will It Happen, and What Will We Find?
Seth Shostak,
SETI Institute
24 min.
August 28, 2006
Part XV: Astrobiology
Life and Death on Ice-Covered Worlds
Jere Lipps,
University of California, Berkeley
24 min.
September 4, 2006
Part XVI: Astrobiology
Cosmology and Life
Mario Livio,
Space Science Telescope Institute, Baltimore
37 min.
September 11, 2006
Part I: What Makes Us Human?
Chimpanzee Comparative Genomics
Andrew Clark,
Cornell University
37 min.
September 18, 2006
Part II: What Makes Us Human?
The Origin of Adaptability and Human Beings
Rick Potts,
Smithsonian Instituition
35 min.
September 25, 2006
Part I: Asking the Right Questions
Chapter 5: Tongues of Stone
Alan Cutler,
Smithsonian Instituition
17 min.
October 2, 2006
Part II: Asking the Wrong Questions
Eyes Wide Shut:
Exploring Solutions Past
Anabel Ford,
MesoAmerican Research Center
University of California, Santa Barbara
22 min.
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