Dr. Bennet talks about her and her team's work at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. With the help of a congenitally blind dog, Lancelot, Dr. Bennet and her team have successfully treated inhereted blindness in Lancelot and his family.
The author’s place in the future of copyright will not be assured until the full range of her interests receive both recognition and enforcement. Online micropayment and other systems for remunerating individual authors hold promise. Will these new means of remunerating authors remain viable in a digital environment in which paying for creativity increasingly seems an act of largesse?; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 153, No. 2 (Jun., 2009).
Climatologist Claire Parkinson discusses how satellites observe climate change and provide concrete data to prove it is happening. She discusses observed sea ice level changes from satellites.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 3 (September 2017) pp. 208-225.
Dr. Leal talks about how insects reproduce using olfactory senses. How does climate change effect this process? What does that mean for human survival?; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 156, No. 3 (September 2012), pp. 295-302
Dr. Palese explains why we don't have a flu vaccine. He starts with vaccine skeptism history from small pox to the influenza epidemic.; Further reading: Is a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine Possible? Annual Review of Medicine. (2020 Jan 27, Vol 71) pp. 315-327
Dr. Morrison's lecture describes how NASA proposes to protect Earth from asteroid collisions. He also discusses how these collisions might effect evolution on Earth.
Dr. Kirshner presents 15 billion years of cosmic evolution in 25 minutes.; Further reading: http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=220484
