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Health & Medicine

Audio: Blending medicine and engineering

Michael B. Mayor talks about how his career has blurred the lines between medicine and engineering, and how he thinks this should be the model for the future.

Government & Politics

Audio: A new president for Bolivia

John Carey talks about the political climate in Bolivia, the issues President-elect Evo Morales will face, and the implications for Latin America and for the U.S.

Audio: The Perils of Apology Diplomacy

ennifer Lind talks about her findings on the subject of national apologies and discusses the not-so-obvious trade-offs between victims' rights and domestic policy goals.

Audio: Social Security reform plan

Research & Science

Audio: Affirmative action programs in the construction industry

David "Danny" Blanchflower talks about his study and the state of affirmative action in construction today.

Audio: The Big Green Bus

Elliott May '06 spent his senior year working with a group of environmentally conscious classmates to convert a used school bus to run on waste vegetable oil.

Audio: The case for atheism

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the reasoning behind his beliefs and talks about the social and political implications of heterodoxy in matters of faith.

Audio: The economics, politics, science, and morality of climate change

It's going to take an interdisciplinary approach to tackle global warming and climate change, according to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, a professor of philosophy, and Richard Howarth, a professor of environmental studies.

Audio: Energy, the environment, and you

Andrew Friedland talks about the different choices people can make, if they want, to ease their environmental impact.

Audio: Open-source organizing

Quintus Jett is working to design a new, more flexible way of organizing groups of people, a method inspired by the success of open-source programming.

Audio: The workings of an 18-year-old brain

Abigail Baird talks about her research in general, and about a recent study that looked at the brains of college students throughout their freshman year at Dartmouth.

Technology

Audio: Golden Anniversary for AI

Philosophy professor Jim Moor discusses the history of AI and some of the philosophical questions he's been thinking about.

Audio: Striving to understand technology

Elsa Garmire, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, talks about her interest in promoting technology literacy among both children and adults.

Audio: Training emergency responders

Dennis McGrath develops computer simulated exercises to train emergency responders.