Audio Article #29: Greogr Mendel's Peas and Premonitions
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Explore " mendel" with insightful episodes like "Audio Article #29: Greogr Mendel's Peas and Premonitions", "Mendel Beilis, Blood Libel and the Truth behind 'The Fixer', with Jay Beilis", "Discovering Genes", "Discovering Genes" and "Lecture 7: The Biological Revolution - What is Life?" from podcasts like ""iGlobenews Pods", "More Teacher Talk", "The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner", "The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner" and "Astronomy 141 - Life in the Universe - Autumn Quarter 2009"" and more!
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Mendel Beilis, Blood Libel and the Truth behind 'The Fixer', with Jay Beilis
In this special edition podcast Jay Beilis shares the story of his grandfather and the legacy of one of the most significant events in modern history.
Mendel Beilis never sought celebrity nor to profit from his suffering even though his case gripped Russia, and the world, even more than the Dreyfus affair had gripped France. His conduct – resisting the pressure to implicate himself or other jews – saved his countrymen from a pogrom. Close to his death, when he was asked what was the enduring impression of the trial he paid tribute to the Russian Gentiles who had helped him. It was kindness, in particular the kindness of many ordinary Russians before and during his imprisonment, that mitigated his bitterness towards his persecutors.
It is in this spirit of kindness that this podcast has been created.
(credits: Jay Beilis, Jeremy Simcha Garber, Mark S. Stein; Music by http://filmtv-tracks.com)
Discovering Genes
On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we consider the human genome, eugenics, the story of science with the author of “She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity.” Carl Zimmer has authored 13 books about science and is the New York Times“Matter” columnist on which he explores the stuff of everything scientific discovery and inquiry.
Zimmer's writing has earned a number of awards including the 2016 Stephen Jay Gould prize and a 2017 Online Journalism Award for his series of articles in which he explored his genome. A professor at Yale University, Zimmer is a familiar voice on programs like Radio Laband we welcome him here today. Thank you for joining us today.
Discovering Genes
On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we consider the human genome, eugenics, the story of science with the author of “She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity.” Carl Zimmer has authored 13 books about science and is the New York Times“Matter” columnist on which he explores the stuff of everything scientific discovery and inquiry.
Zimmer's writing has earned a number of awards including the 2016 Stephen Jay Gould prize and a 2017 Online Journalism Award for his series of articles in which he explored his genome. A professor at Yale University, Zimmer is a familiar voice on programs like Radio Laband we welcome him here today. Thank you for joining us today.
Lecture 7: The Biological Revolution - What is Life?
What is the nature of life? In this lecture I will review the revolution
in biological thinking that has dramatically changed how we view life.
I will review such persistent ancient ideas as spontaneous generation
and why it took so long to disprove this notion, the impact of the
microscope on biology, and the discovery of the laws and agency of heredity.
This is obviously a highly-selective view of a vast topic, and my goal is
to highlight those episodes in the history of biology that inform us about
the nature of science (its successes and failures), and which we will concern
ourselves with in the rest of the course. Listeners will note that I do
not introduce Evolution (more precisely, Natural Selection) since that
is a huge other topic for another day. Recorded live on 2009 Oct 1 in
Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State
University.