Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx46mCwCRS4
Title: The Godfather of Energy Efficiency
Description: “The cheapest energy is what you don’t use.”—A simple yet brilliant idea. Arthur H.
Rosenfeld received his PhD in physics under the legendary Enrico Fermi. From his beginnings in
particle physics, Rosenfeld made an abrupt career change in the midst of the 1970’s Oil Crisis. His
solution to the massive energy demand was at the time a radical proposition: rather than building
more power plants, Rosenfeld suggested that more energy could be “freed-up” by using energy
more efficiently.
He founded the lab that would be responsible for seminal inventions in energy efficiency,
including components for CFLs, smart windows, and building energy analysis programs. In the
political arena, Rosenfeld worked tirelessly to promote appliance and building energy standards.
His methods, which cut away at the unessential, are estimated to save $1.8 trillion and 7 billion
tons of CO2 emissions by 2030, according to a 2001 US National Academy of Sciences report.
Length: 46 minutes
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYrP_wSf7G8
Title: The Sci-Fi World of CRISPR Gene Editing
Description: It has long been the wish of scientists and the general public alike to be able to change
the basic building blocks of life; to make crops that are more drought resistant; to prevent children
from inheriting disease; or even to eradicate the contracted diseases that plague humanity now,
like cancer and AIDS.
While that day is not quite here, it is closer than you think.
With the discovery of CRISPR and the work of scientists like Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer
Doudna, and Feng Zhang, we are ever closer to making big changes to the code of life.
Length: 46 minutes
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tg0eNT3jo
Title: Confucius of the West
Description: The Chinese sage Confucius lived in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE during an
intellectual wellspring of Chinese culture and thought. Now, 2,500 years later, a scholar at
Columbia University plays the role of a “Modern Confucius” by provoking independent thought
and collective discussion in his students. This man, William Theodore de Bary, not only imparts
the words and methodologies of a great cultural legacy, he lives them as well.
A scholar with over 70 years of devotion to Asian intellectual history, William Theodore de Bary
has edited multiple volumes of source texts in English translation, including his monumental
Sources of Chinese Tradition. Rather than interpreting the meanings of classic texts for students,
he advocates understanding Chinese issues through the study of China’s history on its own terms,
breaking away from Western theories and values to reappraise China’s long cultural history.
Length: 46 minutes
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJTWpki_7w
Title: Justice with Compassion
Description: While serving as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for both the
former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Louise Arbour made strategic breakthroughs in securing
indictment and apprehension of international war criminals—including those holding paramilitary
or political positions at the highest levels.
Speaking from her extensive experiences—ranging boldly across such fields as criminal procedure,
civil liberties, and gender issues, Arbour has remained an untiring voice for the sufferers of war
and conflict, as well as people whose rights have been neglected to the peripherals of public
awareness.
Length: 46 minutes
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