"401K and IRA Retirement Plans" - Peter R. Orszag, Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution
"Aeronautics at the Library of Congress: Forty Years of One User's Experience" - Tom D. Crouch is the senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum
"Ambient Findability" - Peter Morville, president and founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience and findability consultancy; co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute
"Animal Emotion" - Dr. Michael Fox, "The Animal Doctor."
"Apples & Pears: The Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness" - Dr. Marie Savard, a physician and women's health expert
"Avoiding the Fate of the Mayans" NASA presentation series. The Maya civilization, at its peak, was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world. But after flourishing for a thousand years, it abruptly disappeared. Thanks to Landsat satellite data and climate models, NASA archaeologist Tom Sever has gained insights into the event known as the Maya Collapse. His findings can inform our lives today
"Bait & Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" - Barbara Ehrenreich, co-editor of Global Woman : Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
"Barbecue: A History of the World's Oldest Culinary Art." - Steven Raichlen
"Blacks in Advertising Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow". - Dr. Foxworth, author and professor
"Book Trends" - Dr. Albert Greco, author of "The Book Industry" and is a Professor of Marketing, and of Communications and Media Management at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business.
"Clinical Trials in Glaucoma: What Have We Learned." - Dr. Higginbotham, chair, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Maryland
"Color in the Herb Garden" - Jim Adams, curator of the National Herb Garden at the National Arboretum
"Commercializing university research - Threats and opportunities - The Oxford University model" - Experts comment on remarks given by Tim Cook and Michael Hockaday of Oxford University.
"Copy This: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies" - Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinkos
"Dawn of Space Age" - Dr. McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University
""Earth’s Water Cycle in a Changing Climate." A presentation by Peter Hildebrand, chief of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
"Fit To Live" - Dr. Pamela Peeke, physician, scientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, stress, and fitness, spoke on her newest book.
"Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat."- Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU professor, author and food industry critic spoke on her latest book.
"From Promises to Proof: Studying Complementary and Alternative Medicine" - Dr. Stephen Straus, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health
"Who Left the Freezer Door Open? What the Poles Are Telling Us about Climate Change."- Bob Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
"Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever" - Dr. John Beck
"The Great Unraveling" - Paul Krugman
"Herbs in the Garden" - Holly Shimizu, the executive director of the United States Botanic Garden.
"The History of Household Technology" with Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress - Journey & Crossings Webcast
"Honey Bees, Satellites, and Climate Change" Wayne Esaias, Ocean Sciences Branch, NASA GSFC
"Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology" - Dr. Eric Grissell
"Library Landscape Renovation" - Matthew Evans, Holly Shimizu & Carl Morgan, LC's gardener supervisor
"Mesa Verde Prehistoric Public Works" - Kenneth Wright, President of Wright Water Engineers, Inc., Denver, CO.
"The New American Cooking" - Joan Nathan, award-winning author of numerous cookery books spoke on her latest book
"No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society" - Robert O'Harrow, reporter for The Washington Post
"No Such Thing as Overexposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump" - Robert Slater
"Observing, Fighting, and Mitigating Damage from Fires."- Compton Tucker, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA GSFC
"Organic Farms" - Jim Crawford, of New Morning Farm, and Sam Fromartz, author of Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew, spoke on sustainable organic agriculture, family farming, direct marketing of foods.
"The Origins of Life and the Universe" - Craig Mello and John Mather, 2006 Nobel Prize winners
"The Parking Garage" - Shannon McDonald, A.I.A., is a Senior Architect at the architectural firm of Shannon Sanders McDonald. She spoke about movement issues as related to parking, transportation, environment, architecture, and urban planning.
"Preserving Africa's Threatened Wildlife: Forest Peoples and Indigenous Knowledge." - Alden Almquist, anthropologist, 2003-2004 Kluge Staff Fellow, and Albert Lokasola, President, Vie Sauvage, Democratic Republic of the Congo discuss the wildlife conservation programs in Congo's Lac Tumba and Maringa-Wamba-Lopori landscapes.
"Renewing the National Zoo" - Dr. Lucy H. Spelman
"Salt in Your Socks and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies" - Dr. Lillian Beard
"School Gardens" with Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section at the Library of Congress - Journey & Crossings Webcast
"Seashell on the Mountaintop" - Alan Cutler
"The New Science of Addiction and What It Means for Society" - presented by Alan I. Leshner, PhD. Dr. Leshner is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Executive Publisher of the journal, Science. Cosponsored by the Science, Technology, and Business Division and the Library of Congress Employee's Assistant Program
Science Safari, 2003
Science Safari, 2004
"Superstrings: Einstein's Dream at the New Millennium" - Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr., John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
"Science and Technology Policy in Japan" - Yukio Sato, director general and professor at the International Research and Educational Institute for Integrated Medical Sciences at Tokyo Women's Medical University; adviser and former executive director of the Japan Science and Technology Agency
"A Tale of Two Gardens" - Dr. James A. Duke, noted ethnobotanist, expert on medicinal plants, and author
"The Tenth Muse: My Life In Food" - Judith Jones is a Senior Editor and Vice President of Alfred A. Knopf and the 2006 recipient of the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. In her nearly 50-year career as a cookbook editor, Jones has worked with a long list of esteemed food writers, including Julia Child and James Beard. She spoke on her upcoming book
"A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances" - Laura Schenone
"The Transmission of SARS" - Dr. Marc Lipsitch, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health
"The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor -- and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car" - Tim Harford, columnist of Financial Times and Slate
"War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda" - Jonathan Tucker, Senior Research at the Monterey Institute's Center for Non-proliferation Studies
"Weather Forecasting" - Bob Ryan, Chief Meteorologist at NBC4
"What to Do about Worsening Economic Inequality? The Rising Tide Tax System and Other Proposals" - Dr. Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University
"The Woman Road Warrior" - Kathleen Ameche, President of the Ameche Group
"Women's History & Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life" - Barbara Haber, distinguished women's history librarian and culinary historian

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