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Gobero: Preparing the Triple Burial One of the most exquisite discoveries from Gobero is a triple burial which preserved an adult woman interred with two young children. The bodies were buried with their arms around each other and were holding hands. Paul Sereno's vision was to create something unique that would enable people to 1) view the burial from both sides and 2) preserve all of the scientific information in place: from the tiniest bones to the original position of the artifacts. He met with his staff at the University ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gobero: An Interdisciplinary Discovery Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, discusses an unexpected discovery he made while searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in 2000. Sereno and his team uncovered a massive graveyard containing over 200 burials. By combining techniques from paleontology and archeology, the team was able to preserve a site that might otherwise have been lost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Life of Shells: Looking into the ecological past Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems. By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can perform what is called a live-dead analysis. Large discrepancies in the ratio of living and dead organisms correlate with radical changes in the ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: A Conversation with the Authors Thaler and Sunstein reminisce at their favorite Hyde Park lunch spot, Noodles, where they say they did some of their best work on the book. Noodles was so important to the creative process, it even made the acknowledgments. The two talk about what each brought to the project, the origin of the elephants on the book cover, their fear of forms, and their hopes for a new political consensus in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: An Overview University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be useful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing A fundamental economic question is the tradeoff between investment and consumption and how it determines asset prices in the macroeconomy. New research studies the relationship between consumption and asset prices using microeconomic data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency and Political Relationships Since the 1990s, foreign capital has become an increasingly important source of financing for emerging market firms. Because companies that access global capital markets receive substantial benefits, it is difficult to understand why so few firms take advantage of foreign capital markets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economics of Pricing: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? The current practice of charging money for life-saving health products in developing countries is a source of controversy among policymakers. Opponents argue that the practice is unfair and that fees will result in goods only reaching the richest of the poor. Advocates of pricing, including non-governmental organizations, argue that free products will not be valued or used. New research suggests charging money for these products could lead to more intensive product use, and thus greater hea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Insider Trading and Future Earnings Even though insider trading laws have become stricter over time, insiders are still trading their company's stock and making money from trades. New research examines how insiders limit trading their company's stock for fear of legal repercussions when future earnings reports are likely to become extremely positive or negative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discretion Meets Disclosure It has long been suspected that fear of competition spurs managers to hide better-than-average business unit profit performance. However, a new study instead finds evidence that fear of increased oversight leads managers to hide less-than-average business unit performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rational Revolutions The widespread adoption of new technologies-from the automobile to the internet-tends to be accompanied by stock market booms and busts. Why do the stock prices of innovative firms tend to exhibit apparent "bubbles" during technological revolutions? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading the Fine Print One of the key questions in corporate finance is how a firm's reliance on external finance affects its investment policy. New research suggests that creditors play a much more direct role in firm investment policy than has been previously recognized. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collegial Connections Mutual fund managers tend to invest more heavily in companies headed by senior officers who attend the same universities as the fund mangers. Futhermore, those investments tend to be more fruitful than their holdings in firms with which they have no connection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blowing the Whistle New research suggests that the best way to promote fraud detection is to extend the Federal Civic False Claims Act to corporate fraud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Bird, One Stone How do we choose the means--that is, the actions, objects, or other resources--with which we attempt to achieve our goals? New research suggests that these choices are partly determined by the extent to which available means are only good for the specific goal we hope to accomplish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Know What I'm Thinking? Much of everyday behavior is directed toward understanding, responding to, or attempting to change how we are seen by the people around us. We can be easily led astray, however, by common errors in these perceptions. New research shows us that when we want to better understand how others see us, we should start by changing the way we look at ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory: Overview and Tour Olaf Schneewind, M.D., Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, and Joe Kanabrocki, Ph.D, Biosafety Officer for the Ricketts Biocontainment Laboratory, talk about a new state-of-the-art facility designed to develop new treatments, diagnostic tests and vaccines for emerging infectious diseases. The Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory (HTRL) will house research on microbial agents that are considered either Risk Group 2 (agents that cause mild to moderate symptoms in humans, but ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thai Family Research Project: How entrepreneurship shapes economies Robert Townsend, co-director of the Thai Family Research Project, discusses the importance of individual entrepreneurs in shaping local and regional economies and reducing poverty. His findings draw on over 10 years of data collected from nearly 3,000 households throughout Thailand. This research contributed to the creation of The Enterprise Initiative, a new project funded by the John Templeton Foundation which focuses on wealth creation and poverty reduction in developing countries. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: The Final Chapter Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the project for the past 11 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Empathy Switch: How Doctors Regulate Pain Perception Jean Decety, Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, explains his research into pain responses and how physicians learn to turn off the part of the brain that activates feelings of empathy. Decety co-authored "Expertise Modulates the Perception of Pain in Others," published in October 2007, which discusses the necessary ability of a doctor to regulate pain perception in order to better treat patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: A Conversation with the Authors Thaler and Sunstein reminisce at their favorite Hyde Park lunch spot, Noodles, where they say they did some of their best work on the book. Noodles was so important to the creative process, it even made the acknowledgments. The two talk about what each brought to the project, the origin of the elephants on the book cover, their fear of forms, and their hopes for a new political consensus in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: An Overview University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be useful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gobero: An Interdisciplinary Discovery Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, discusses an unexpected discovery he made while searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in 2000. Sereno and his team uncovered a massive graveyard containing over 200 burials. By combining techniques from paleontology and archeology, the team was able to preserve a site that might otherwise have been lost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Life of Shells: Looking into the ecological past Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems. By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can perform what is called a live-dead analysis. Large discrepancies in the ratio of living and dead organisms correlate with radical changes in the ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: A Conversation with the Authors Thaler and Sunstein reminisce at their favorite Hyde Park lunch spot, Noodles, where they say they did some of their best work on the book. Noodles was so important to the creative process, it even made the acknowledgments. The two talk about what each brought to the project, the origin of the elephants on the book cover, their fear of forms, and their hopes for a new political consensus in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: An Overview University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be useful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing A fundamental economic question is the tradeoff between investment and consumption and how it determines asset prices in the macroeconomy. New research studies the relationship between consumption and asset prices using microeconomic data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency and Political Relationships Since the 1990s, foreign capital has become an increasingly important source of financing for emerging market firms. Because companies that access global capital markets receive substantial benefits, it is difficult to understand why so few firms take advantage of foreign capital markets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economics of Pricing: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? The current practice of charging money for life-saving health products in developing countries is a source of controversy among policymakers. Opponents argue that the practice is unfair and that fees will result in goods only reaching the richest of the poor. Advocates of pricing, including non-governmental organizations, argue that free products will not be valued or used. New research suggests charging money for these products could lead to more intensive product use, and thus greater hea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Insider Trading and Future Earnings Even though insider trading laws have become stricter over time, insiders are still trading their company's stock and making money from trades. New research examines how insiders limit trading their company's stock for fear of legal repercussions when future earnings reports are likely to become extremely positive or negative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discretion Meets Disclosure It has long been suspected that fear of competition spurs managers to hide better-than-average business unit profit performance. However, a new study instead finds evidence that fear of increased oversight leads managers to hide less-than-average business unit performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rational Revolutions The widespread adoption of new technologies-from the automobile to the internet-tends to be accompanied by stock market booms and busts. Why do the stock prices of innovative firms tend to exhibit apparent "bubbles" during technological revolutions? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading the Fine Print One of the key questions in corporate finance is how a firm's reliance on external finance affects its investment policy. New research suggests that creditors play a much more direct role in firm investment policy than has been previously recognized. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collegial Connections Mutual fund managers tend to invest more heavily in companies headed by senior officers who attend the same universities as the fund mangers. Futhermore, those investments tend to be more fruitful than their holdings in firms with which they have no connection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blowing the Whistle New research suggests that the best way to promote fraud detection is to extend the Federal Civic False Claims Act to corporate fraud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Bird, One Stone How do we choose the means--that is, the actions, objects, or other resources--with which we attempt to achieve our goals? New research suggests that these choices are partly determined by the extent to which available means are only good for the specific goal we hope to accomplish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Know What I'm Thinking? Much of everyday behavior is directed toward understanding, responding to, or attempting to change how we are seen by the people around us. We can be easily led astray, however, by common errors in these perceptions. New research shows us that when we want to better understand how others see us, we should start by changing the way we look at ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gobero: Preparing the Triple Burial One of the most exquisite discoveries from Gobero is a triple burial which preserved an adult woman interred with two young children. The bodies were buried with their arms around each other and were holding hands. Paul Sereno's vision was to create something unique that would enable people to 1) view the burial from both sides and 2) preserve all of the scientific information in place: from the tiniest bones to the original position of the artifacts. He met with his staff at the University ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory: Overview and Tour Olaf Schneewind, M.D., Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, and Joe Kanabrocki, Ph.D, Biosafety Officer for the Ricketts Biocontainment Laboratory, talk about a new state-of-the-art facility designed to develop new treatments, diagnostic tests and vaccines for emerging infectious diseases. The Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory (HTRL) will house research on microbial agents that are considered either Risk Group 2 (agents that cause mild to moderate symptoms in humans, but ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thai Family Research Project: How entrepreneurship shapes economies Robert Townsend, co-director of the Thai Family Research Project, discusses the importance of individual entrepreneurs in shaping local and regional economies and reducing poverty. His findings draw on over 10 years of data collected from nearly 3,000 households throughout Thailand. This research contributed to the creation of The Enterprise Initiative, a new project funded by the John Templeton Foundation which focuses on wealth creation and poverty reduction in developing countries. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: The Final Chapter Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the project for the past 11 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Empathy Switch: How Doctors Regulate Pain Perception Jean Decety, Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, explains his research into pain responses and how physicians learn to turn off the part of the brain that activates feelings of empathy. Decety co-authored "Expertise Modulates the Perception of Pain in Others," published in October 2007, which discusses the necessary ability of a doctor to regulate pain perception in order to better treat patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigrant Children's Advocacy Maria Woltjen, Director of the Immigrant Children's Advocacy Project, describes how she founded a program to provide unaccompanied immigrant children with guardians ad litem. In 2005, nearly 8,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were taken into federal custody and many of these children had to face immigration judges without any legal aid. By working with multilingual law students, The Center pairs advocates with immigrant and refugee children to ensure the child's welfare is represented, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Physics and the Cell: Mysteries of the Cytoskeleton Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Physics, is a 2007 recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer award, along with four others from The University of Chicago. Fundamentally interdisciplinary, Gardel's research straddles both the physical and biological sciences by exploring disease on a molecular level. Gardel explains how the physical structure of cells may yield clues to advanced treatments for cancer and other diseases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolving Brains Dr. Bruce Lahn discusses newly discovered variants in two genes, one of which affects brain-size in humans. Because these variants have arisen very recently, studying them may help researchers understand the ongoing evolution of the human brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hamoukar: Redrawing the Map of the World's Earliest Cities Clemens Reichel, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, explains the importance of the groundbreaking archaeological expedition he co-directed at Hamoukar in Northern Syria. Until recently, archaeologists believed that urban civilization first arose in Southern Mesopotamia, or modern day Iraq. Work at Hamoukar has revealed a separate and equally ancient urban movement to the north of the area that has been traditionally regarded as the birthplace of "the city." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mystery of the Child Martin E. Marty, Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity, discusses his new book, The Mystery of the Child, and the origins of his interest in the subject of children. Departing from literature on children that regards the child as a problem to be controlled, Marty's new work--emanating from his involvement in Emory University's three-year study of "The Child in Law, Religion and Society"--calls for us to foster wonder in children, asking that we r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Early-onset Breast Cancer among Black Women Why do black women have a disproportionately high rate of breast cancer at an earlier age? A new interdisciplinary research center hopes to unravel the genetic, behavioral, and social causes of this health disparity. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Heat Islands John Frederick of the University of Chicago hopes to discover more about the health effects of particulate matter, such as its relationship to incidents of asthma and a warming trend known as the heat island effect. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theoretical Cosmology What is dark matter? Is the universe speeding up? University of Chicago Professor Michael Turner clarifies how theoretical and experimental cosmologists challenge each other to unravel the deep mysteries of the universe. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emerging Infectious Diseases New research led by University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind on the mechanisms that bacteria use to cause human disease may help produce new therapeutics. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizenship, Distrust, and Democracy Danielle S. Allen, Dean of Humanities at The University of Chicago, discusses why our political life is characterized by so much distrust and gives her thoughts on how we can arrive at a place of more peaceful interaction. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense Under University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind, researchers lead a collaborative effort to use modern science to protect the public from infectious agents. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protective Hypothermia Cardiac arrest and industrial cooling? Dr. Lance Becker of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have discovered an improbable link between the two that may transform treatment for heart attacks. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Streets of Glory In 'Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood' University of Chicago sociologist Omar McRoberts explores the relationships between urban 'storefront' churches and the community in which they are situated. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Collected Works of Ben Jonson University of Chicago Professor David Bevington discusses the process of publishing the comprehensive new electronic and print editions of Ben Jonson's work, which will feature modernized language and will include secondary materials such as costume and set sketches. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chicago Judges Project Are votes of federal judges predictable from their ideology? University of Chicago law professor Cass R. Sunstein discusses judicial behavior on federal courts, examining considerable data on how appointees have voted, and considers whether judges are affected by their colleagues. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit-Breaking: The Startle Response and Neuromotor Function Neurobiologist Melina E. Hale investigates how fish respond to predators in order to better understand neuro-mechanics in humans, providing a basis to address neurological disorders and spinal cord injury. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demons, Angels and Unnatural Beings In Renaissance demonology, the relationship between humans and fallen angels is essentially a dialogue. Armando Maggi examines this rhetorical interaction--how demons seduce humans into speaking their language--and reconsiders an impossible question that concerned church fathers: What happens when demons and humans mate? Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preventing HIV in Africa: Understanding Sexual Behavior Change Roughly 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, and the number is growing. Since 90 95 percent of HIV infections in Africa result from heterosexual sex, understanding changes in heterosexual behavior in response to rising HIV rates is crucial to developing effective prevention strategies. In the new study 'HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?' Emily Oster, Becker Fellow for the Gary S. Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Gra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Value of Life Robert Topel, professor of economics from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, assesses the benefits of medical research from an economic perspective. Topel calculates the social value of increased longevity, observing that even modest reductions in mortality may indicate enormous social returns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Tiktaalik University of Chicago fossil preparator, Tyler Keillor, discusses the iterative process of creating the model for Tiktaalik, the fossil discovery by paleontologist Neil Shubin that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biological Microsystems Milan Mrksich, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, discusses his research on integrating living cells with non-living engineered microsystems to create hybrid devices. (c) 2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking the National Brand Sanjay Dhar, of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, observes several striking geographic patterns in the performance of national brands. (c)2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advertising as Strategic Investment Sanjay Dhar, marketing professor in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, investigates the strategic role of advertising investments in the formation of long-run industrial market structures. (c)2006 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiktaalik: Fish out of Water Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Shubin and his colleagues describe the species in the April 6, 2006 issue of Nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preventing HIV in Africa: Understanding Sexual Behavior Change Roughly 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, and the number is growing. Since 90 95 percent of HIV infections in Africa result from heterosexual sex, understanding changes in heterosexual behavior in response to rising HIV rates is crucial to developing effective prevention strategies. In the new study 'HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?' Emily Oster, Becker Fellow for the Gary S. Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Gra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preventing HIV in Africa: Understanding Sexual Behavior Change Roughly 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, and the number is growing. Since 90 95 percent of HIV infections in Africa result from heterosexual sex, understanding changes in heterosexual behavior in response to rising HIV rates is crucial to developing effective prevention strategies. In the new study 'HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?' Emily Oster, Becker Fellow for the Gary S. Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Gra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Value of Life Robert Topel, professor of economics from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, assesses the benefits of medical research from an economic perspective. Topel calculates the social value of increased longevity, observing that even modest reductions in mortality may indicate enormous social returns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Tiktaalik University of Chicago fossil preparator, Tyler Keillor, discusses the iterative process of creating the model for Tiktaalik, the fossil discovery by paleontologist Neil Shubin that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biological Microsystems Milan Mrksich, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, discusses his research on integrating living cells with non-living engineered microsystems to create hybrid devices. (c) 2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking the National Brand Sanjay Dhar, of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, observes several striking geographic patterns in the performance of national brands. (c)2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advertising as Strategic Investment Sanjay Dhar, marketing professor in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, investigates the strategic role of advertising investments in the formation of long-run industrial market structures. (c)2006 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiktaalik: Fish out of Water Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Shubin and his colleagues describe the species in the April 6, 2006 issue of Nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Heat Islands John Frederick of the University of Chicago hopes to discover more about the health effects of particulate matter, such as its relationship to incidents of asthma and a warming trend known as the heat island effect. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Chromosomes University of Chicago Professor Daphne Preuss has discovered an ingenious method to add genetic material to plants. Her research on chromosome assembly may have important, real world consequences in improving crops and making medical breakthroughs. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theoretical Cosmology What is dark matter? Is the universe speeding up? University of Chicago Professor Michael Turner clarifies how theoretical and experimental cosmologists challenge each other to unravel the deep mysteries of the universe. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emerging Infectious Diseases New research led by University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind on the mechanisms that bacteria use to cause human disease may help produce new therapeutics. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizenship, Distrust, and Democracy Danielle S. Allen, Dean of Humanities at The University of Chicago, discusses why our political life is characterized by so much distrust and gives her thoughts on how we can arrive at a place of more peaceful interaction. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense Under University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind, researchers lead a collaborative effort to use modern science to protect the public from infectious agents. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protective Hypothermia Cardiac arrest and industrial cooling? Dr. Lance Becker of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have discovered an improbable link between the two that may transform treatment for heart attacks. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Streets of Glory In 'Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood' University of Chicago sociologist Omar McRoberts explores the relationships between urban 'storefront' churches and the community in which they are situated. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Collected Works of Ben Jonson University of Chicago Professor David Bevington discusses the process of publishing the comprehensive new electronic and print editions of Ben Jonson's work, which will feature modernized language and will include secondary materials such as costume and set sketches. Copyright 2003 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chicago Judges Project Are votes of federal judges predictable from their ideology? University of Chicago law professor Cass R. Sunstein discusses judicial behavior on federal courts, examiningconsiderable data on how appointees have voted, and considers whether judges are affected by their colleagues. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit-Breaking: The Startle Response and Neuromotor Function Neurobiologist Melina E. Hale investigates how fish respond to predators in order to better understand neuro-mechanics in humans, providing a basis to address neurological disorders and spinal cord injury. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demons, Angels and Unnatural Beings In Renaissance demonology, the relationship between humans and fallen angels is essentially a dialogue. Armando Maggi examines this rhetorical interaction--how demons seduce humans into speaking their language--and reconsiders an impossible question that concerned church fathers: What happens when demons and humans mate? Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Early-onset Breast Cancer among Black Women Why do black women have a disproportionately high rate of breast cancer at an earlier age? A new interdisciplinary research center hopes to unravel the genetic, behavioral, and social causes of this health disparity. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Greatest Speech of the Century: FDR's Second Bill of Rights Law professor Cass R. Sunstein talks about his book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and brings back from obscurity an important speech: FDR's State of the Union Address of 1944, in which he articulates the idea that human beings have inherent economic and social rights. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone discusses his recent book, which recounts our nation's long history of limiting free speech and civil liberties in times of crisis. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinema and its Ancestors: The Magic of Motion Film historian Tom Gunning examines an important precursor to modern film: the magic lantern. He considers the eighteenth and nineteenth century's fascination with this new, very modern way of experiencing images and how this form of visual media ushered in the era of motion pictures. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Science of RIA: ATLAS, Hulk and Brute Force Physics The Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) will be the world's most powerful research accelerator dedicated to producing and exploring new rare isotopes that cannot be found on earth. Tour the ATLAS facility and see why The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory is the ideal future home for RIA. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poloxamer-188: A Revolutionary Approach to Healing Injury University of Chicago researchers Raphael Lee, M.D., and Ka Yee Lee, Ph.D., discuss how a synthetic surfactant called Poloxamer-188 has been shown to seal cell membranes damaged from electrical shock, restoring cell integrity and enhancing tissue survival. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gut Instincts: Keeping Killer Bacteria Quiet University of Chicago researcher John Alverdy, M.D., has discovered a way to keep bacteria from communicating, which may help save surgical patients from dying of infection. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Myths of Self-Masquerade University of Chicago Divinity School Professor Wendy Doniger explores the cultural fascination with pretending to be another version of oneself, a popular theme in film, theater, and literature. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Survival and Diversity on Tatoosh Island University of Chicago ecologists Cathy Pfister and J. Timothy Wootton journey to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest to examine causes and effects of species extinction. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detecting Cosmic Rays: The Auger Observatory and Frontier Science University of Chicago astrophysicist Angela Olinto discusses high energy cosmic rays and a new observatory determined to find their origins. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designing Intelligence: Language Acquisition as a Model for Teaching Computers to Learn By researching how children learn language, computer science professor Partha Niyogi seeks to unlock the secret to programming truly 'intelligent' machines. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Tiktaalik University of Chicago fossil preparator, Tyler Keillor, discusses the iterative process of creating the model for Tiktaalik, the fossil discovery by paleontologist Neil Shubin that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Value of Life Robert Topel, professor of economics from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, assesses the benefits of medical research from an economic perspective. Topel calculates the social value of increased longevity, observing that even modest reductions in mortality may indicate enormous social returns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiktaalik: Fish out of Water University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. (c)2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advertising as Strategic Investment Sanjay Dhar, marketing professor in The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, investigates the strategic role of advertising investments in the formation of long-run industrial market structures. (c)2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking the National Brand Sanjay Dhar, of The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, observes several striking geographic patterns in the performance of national brands. (c)2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biological Microsystems Milan Mrksich, professor of chemistry at The University of Chicago, discusses his research on integrating living cells with non-living engineered microsystems to create hybrid devices. (c)2006 The University of Chicago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designing Intelligence: Language Acquisition as a Model for Teaching Computers to Learn By researching how children learn language, University of Chicago computer science professor Partha Niyogi seeks to unlock the secret to programming truly "intelligent" machines. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poloxamer-188: A Revolutionary Approach to Healing Injury University of Chicago researchers Raphael Lee, M.D., and Ka Yee Lee, Ph.D., discuss how a synthetic surfactant called Poloxamer-188 has been shown to seal cell membranes damaged from electrical shock, restoring cell integrity and enhancing tissue survival. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinema and its Ancestors: The Magic of Motion Film historian Tom Gunning examines an important precursor to modern film: the magic lantern. He considers the eighteenth and nineteenth century's fascination with this new, very modern way of experiencing images and how this form of visual media ushered in the era of motion pictures. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On"Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism" University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone discusses his recent book, which recounts our nation's long history of limiting free speech and civil liberties in times of crisis. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Early-onset Breast Cancer among Black Women Why do black women have a disproportionately high rate of breast cancer at an earlier age? University of Chicago Professor Sarah Gehlert and a new interdisciplinary research center hope to unravel the genetic, behavioral, and social causes of this health disparity. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demons, Angels and Unnatural Beings In Renaissance demonology, the relationship between humans and fallen angels is essentially a dialogue. Armando Maggi examines this rhetorical interaction--how demons seduce humans into speaking their language--and reconsiders an impossible question that concerned church fathers: What happens when demons and humans mate? ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit-Breaking: The Startle Response and Neuromotor Function University of Chicago neurobiologist Melina E. Hale investigates how fish respond to predators in order to better understand neuro-mechanics in humans, providing a basis to address neurological disorders and spinal cord injury. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Collected Works of Ben Jonson University of Chicago Professor David Bevington discusses the process of publishing the comprehensive new electronic and print editions of Ben Jonson's work, which will feature modernized language and will include secondary materials such as costume and set sketches. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Streets of Glory In"Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood"University of Chicago sociologist Omar McRoberts explores the relationships between urban"storefront"churches and the community in which they are situated. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protective Hypothermia Cardiac arrest and industrial cooling? Dr. Lance Becker of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have discovered an improbable link between the two that may transform treatment for heart attacks. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense Under University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind, researchers lead a collaborative effort to use modern science to protect the public from infectious agents. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizenship, Distrust, and Democracy Danielle S. Allen, Dean of Humanities at The University of Chicago, discusses her new book on why our political life is characterized by so much distress and gives her thoughts on how we can arrive at a place of more peaceful interaction. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emerging Infectious Diseases New research led by University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind on the mechanisms that bacteria use to cause human disease may help produce new therapeutics. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theoretical Cosmology What is dark matter? Is the universe speeding up? University of Chicago Professor Michael Turner clarifies how theoretical and experimental cosmologists challenge each other to unravel the deep mysteries of the universe. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Chromosomes University of Chicago Professor Daphne Preuss has discovered an ingenious method to add genetic material to plants. Her research on chromosome assembly may have important, real world consequences in improving crops and making medical breakthroughs. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Heat Islands John Frederick of the University of Chicago hopes to discover more about the health effects of particulate matter, such as its relationship to incidents of asthma and a warming trend known as the heat island effect. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detecting Cosmic Rays: The Auger Observatory and Frontier Science University of Chicago astrophysicist Angela Olinto discusses high energy cosmic rays and a new observatory determined to find their origins. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Survival and Diversity on Tatoosh Island University of Chicago ecologists Cathy Pfister and J. Timothy Wootton journey to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest to examine causes and effects of species extinction. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On"Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism" University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone discusses his recent book, which recounts our nation's long history of limiting free speech and civil liberties in times of crisis. ©2005 The University of Chicago® Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Sized Dinosaur Early Ancestor of T-Rex A 9-foot dinosaur from northeastern China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least 125 million years ago. University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and five co-authors describe the newly discovered dinosaur in the Sept. 17 Science Express, advanced online edition of the journal Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Color Binding in the Brain Steven Shevell, Professor of Psychology, Ophthalmology, Visual Science, discusses new research about how our brains process information about the color of objects. The research shows that the brain processes the shape of an object and its color in two separate pathways and, though the objects shape and color normally are linked, the neural representation of the color can survive alone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban farm research investigates sustainable agricultural practices Pamela Martin, Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences, and her students discuss her Feeding the City research project, which investigates small-scale sustainable agriculture. The goal of the project, now in its pilot year, is to collect data on the direct and indirect energy inputs and outputs. Martin and her team will analyze this data to determine the energy efficiency and environmental impact of food production on urban and rural farms that practice sustainable methods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovery at the University of Chicago Medical Center Scientists and clinicians at the University of Chicago Medical Center are always seeking new ways to enhance patient care through research. In this video, researchers Neil Shubin, Funmi Olopade and Kevin White describe how their scholarship on topics ranging from breast cancer to evolutionary biology advances knowledge while benefitting patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website