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Annual Reviews Conversations

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Annual Reviews is pleased to offer conversations with the contributors at the heart of our organization—our superb editors and authors. These top-of-their-game scientists step back from their current research and consider its relationship to careers in scholarship, to the broader face of science, and to society.

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A Conversation with John B. Fenn

Annual Reviews Conversations ·

2014/03/04

Dr. John B. Fenn talks with colleague Dr. Samy El-Shall about his life and career in science.

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A Conversation with P. Roy Vagelos

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2014/03/04

Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, Merck's former Chairman and CEO, talks about his life and career with Dr. Andrew R. Marks, professor at the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and surgeons. Dr. Vagelos went from waiting on Merck employees at his father's luncheonette in New Jersey to joining the pharmaceutical company, where he revolutionized the drug discovery process. With his team, he developed the first statin, a molecule that reduces

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34:05

A Conversation with Michael Walzer

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2014/03/04

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), talks about his life and career with Nancy Rosenblum, Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Growing up in a "family of lefties" during World War II, Professor Walzer began writing about politics as a child, and for the rest of his career, he toed the line between professorship and militancy. For over 30 years,

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01:45:37

A Conversation with Aaron T. Beck

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2014/03/04

The Annual Review of Clinical Psychology presents Aaron T. Beck, President Emeritus of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and his daughter Judith S. Beck, President of the Beck Institute and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. In this interview, they talk about his life and career, and how he went from having no interest in psychiatry to creating Cognitive

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01:04:13

A Conversation with Irven DeVore

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2014/03/04

The Annual Review of Anthropology presents Irven DeVore, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Harvard University, in conversation with Peter Ellison, Co-Editor of this journal and Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, also at Harvard University. Dr. DeVore talks about his life and career, describing how he went from social anthropology to studying and filming baboons and other primates in Africa, to observing the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Pygmies. Dr. DeVore was one of the

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14:53

A Lecture in Plant Biology: Control of Arabidopsis...

Annual Reviews Conversations ·

2014/02/27

Dr. Philip Benfey, Professor of Biology, Director of the Duke Center for Systems Biology and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks about his article Control of Arabidopsis Root Development. In this lecture, he discusses the cellular and genetic mechanisms that underlie root formation in Arabidopsis thaliana, from embryonic roots to lateral roots. He also describes how the roots react to environmental stress, such as high salinity. Finally, he explains how molecular

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01:13:52

A Conversation with Nevin Scrimshaw

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2014/02/27

Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw, Institute Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about his life and career with his former student Cutberto Garza, director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Dr. Scrimshaw discusses how he discovered a compound, potassium iodate, that allowed Central American salt to be iodized, thereby preventing goiter, a swelling of the thyroid, in children. He also explains how he helped fight protein,

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10:01

A Lecture in Psychology: Religion, Morality, Evolution

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2014/02/27

Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology, talks about his article "Religion, Morality, Evolution." How did religion evolve? What effect does religion have on our moral beliefs and moral actions? These questions are related, as some scholars propose that religion has evolved to enhance altruistic behavior toward members of one's group. But, Bloom argues, while religion has powerfully good moral effects

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08:12

A Lecture in Cell and Developmental Biology:...

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2014/02/27

Donald E. Ingber, Founding Director of the Wyss Institute, Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, talks about his article "Mechanobiology and Developmental Control," which he wrote with Tadanori Mammoto and Akiko Mammoto for the 2013 Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. He discusses the role of physical and mechanical forces in the control of cell development and

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A Lecture in Psychology: Is Adolescence a Sensitive...

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2014/02/27

Kathryn L. Mills, of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College of London (UCL), talks about her article "Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?" which she wrote with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, also of UCL, for the 2014 Annual Review of Psychology. In this lecture, Ms. Mills argues that "studies about adolescence should include measures of social influence" as social context drives many of the decisions made by adolescents. She describes how the structure

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A Lecture in Psychology: The Psychology of Change:...

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2014/02/27

Geoffrey L. Cohen, Professor in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, Department of Psychology, and (by courtesy) the Graduate School of Business, and David Sherman, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, talk about their article "The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention," which they wrote together for the 2014 Annual Review of Psychology. In this lecture, the explain how self-affirmation

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A Lecture in Public Health: Health Status of the...

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2014/02/27

Stephen Bezruchka, Senior Lecturer at the Departments of Health Services and Global Health of the University of Washington in Seattle, talks about his article "The Hurrider I Go the Behinder I Get: The Deteriorating International Ranking of U.S. Health Status," which he wrote for the 2009 Annual Review of Public Health. Using graphics to illustrate his points, Dr. Bezruchka describes how the United States has fallen to the 34th place in life expectancy, after Cuba, Chile, and Denmark. He also

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01:34:37

A Conversation with Sydney Brenner

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2014/02/26

Dr. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center at the Salk Institute, talks about his life and career with Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, Director of the Center for Complex Disease Research at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, part of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and co-Editor of the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. Dr. Brenner recounts his early life in South Africa, and how he became interested in molecular biology, came to

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A Lecture in Psychology: Deviance and Dissent in Groups

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2014/02/26

Jolanda Jetten, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, talks about her article "Deviance and Dissent in Groups," which she wrote with Matthew J. Hornsey, also of the University of Queensland, for the 2014 Annual Review of Psychology. Dr. Jetten explores the reasons why people engage in deviance and dissent in groups, a little-researched aspect of psychology, as historically, the discipline has been more focused on explaining the reasons for conformity in groups. Concentrating on a

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A Lecture in Psychology: Working Memory: Theories,...

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2014/02/26

Alan Baddeley, Professor of Psychology at the University of York, talks about his autobiographical article "Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies," which he wrote for the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology. In this lecture, Dr. Baddeley describes the evolving approaches to understanding memory over the course of the 20th century, and how he came to develop the multicomponent approach to working memory as a theoretical framework. He then links it to long-term memory, perception, and

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A Conversation with Eric F. Wieschaus

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2014/02/26

Eric Wieschaus, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, talks with Bonnie Bassler, his colleague at Princeton and the Editor of the Annual Review of Genetics, about his life and career. Dr. Wieschaus describes his beginnings as a young boy in Alabama, and recounts how his interest in science was sparked by a science camp in Kansas funded by the National Science Foundation when he was a teenager. After a bachelor's degree at Notre Dame, Dr. Wieschaus was admitted to graduate

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A Lecture in Animal Biosciences: Making...

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2014/02/25

In this video, Dr. Temple Grandin describes the best practices in preslaughter handling, various stunning techniques, and religious slaughter. She also explains how to enforce humane rules and methods so as to ensure the best possible treatment of animals.

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A Conversation with Haldor Topsøe

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2013/12/26

The Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering presents a conversation with Dr. Haldor Topsøe, chairman of Haldor Topsøe. In this interview, Dr. Topsøe talks about his career in industry, as well as his corporation's work with academic scientists.

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A Conversation with P. James E. Peebles

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2013/06/17

P. James E. Peebles, Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University, talks about his life and career with Sandra Faber, University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Dr. Peebles describes his youth in Winnipeg, Canada. He began his studies at the University of Manitoba, where he entered the engineering program, eventually transferring to Physics. On his advisor

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A Conversation with Pierre Joliot-Curie

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2013/05/07

Pierre Joliot-Curie, Professor of Biology at the Collège de France and former Director of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), talks about his life and career with Jean-David Rochaix, Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva. Dr. Joliot-Curie, whose grandparents Pierre and Marie Curie and parents Frédéric Joliot and Irène Curie were all Nobel Prize laureates, discusses his love of research, which he equates to an "artistic" endeavor and an adventure. He recounts his

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