Bench to Bedside - Innovation at Harvard
Harvard researchers and clinicians collaborate across disciplines and around the globe to craft solutions to the world's toughest health challenges. They're promoting the well-being of disadvantaged children worldwide; turning the human body into a laboratory to more effectively study cells; and advocating for a more proactive approach to medicine. Together, they drive advances from the laboratory bench to the patient bedside.
Hear remarks from these Harvard faculty at the cutting edge:
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Digitizing Giza - Innovation at Harvard
What if you could enter a decorated tomb chapel in a Giza pyramid, descend down an ancient burial shaft, or see 5,000-year-old inscriptions come to life—without ever having to travel? Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is leading an effort to digitize the extensive archives available from sites in Giza to make remote antiquities more accessible. He draws on 3-D technology in Harvard's Visualization Center at the Geological Museum to
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Drawing a Net For Rectangular Prisms And Square Pyramids
This student-created video provides directions for making a net for a rectangular prism and a square pyramid. Demonstration includes use of a ruler to make sides the correct lengths. ( 2:52)
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In the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, 3,000 Union soldiers prepare to face the onslaught of 60,000 advancing Confederate soldiers. In this video clip, learn about the strategy of the two conflicting armies in this battle. (2:53)
This video segment from Nature chronicles several years of Cloud’s life documented and narrated by Emmy-winning producer/director, Ginger Kathrens. Cloud, a young colt, moves in a band of wild horses (a group or family of horses that travels together) in the Arrowhead Mountains of southern Montana. In this segment, Kathrens finds helicopters herding the wild horses into a corral. Later, forty-six of the horses are sold at auction, never to be free again. Cloud and his family are
In this video from Nature, Cloud is a four-year-old bachelor who lives in a "group" of wild horses in the Arrowhead Mountains of southern Montana. Although he seems to live a carefree life as he rolls in the muddy water and plays with the other horses, he also has to face and survive the dangers with which he is confronted in nature. There may be conflicts with other horses. Lightening can also be a dangerous force of nature that can strike at any time, killing unsuspecting horses. Learn mo
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In this video clip, biographer Liz Pryor reveals Confederate general, Robert E. Lee's greatest regret about his military career. (1:35)
Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8th March 2012
'The Heart' image is a visualisation of how the #ukoer Twitter community is connected (friend relationships) based on users whose tweet included the #ukoer tag from April 2009 to the beginning of January 2012. The results are graphed in Gephi, node size reflecting the bridging capacity of that person within the network (betweenness centrality), and grouped using a community detection algorithm (modularity class). Profile descriptions for each of the groupings is used to generate a word cloud. 'T
Muslim Scholars developed institutions of learning and even created encyclopedias as learning facilities. Learn more about the Muslim Empire in this video clip from Discovery Channel's "Assignment Discovery." (2:32)
On Discovery Channel's "Massive Engines," host Chris Barrie explains how Ancient Chinese official Wan Hu attempted to travel to space using a chair, a kite and 47 fire arrows. (0:49)
Scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS collaboration, including an astronomer at Penn State, have created the largest-ever three-dimensional map of the distant universe by using the light of the brightest objects in the cosmos to illuminate ghostly clouds of intergalactic hydrogen. Dr. Donald Schneider talks about dark energy, something that the survey has made researchers aware they know little about, but makes up most of the universe.
