And she said, Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think, but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant.

I actually suggested to there is a researcher at the University of Alabama who does orgasm research.

She was also a 2004 research fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute and a professor at Princeton University.

In cold weather these cockroaches may move indoors, seeking warmer temperatures and food.

Ida Sawyer, DR Congo Researcher for Human Rights Watch, adds that the repression is in contradiction with the rights of citizens to express themselves

Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies.

The human hand, in manipulation of objects, is the hand in search of a brain the brain is in search of a hand and play is the medium by which those two are linked in the best way.

The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side by side with threatened animals.

When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, my first year I had a research professor who said to us, Here's the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist.

Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean and shocking stats about its rapid decline as she makes her TED Prize wish that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet.

I'm an archeological geneticist at the Center for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and I study the origins and evolution of human health and disease by conducting genetic research on the skeletal and mummified remains of ancient humans.

In the dusty archives, one researcher spends some of her time trying to document the names of the famine victims for a project launched last year, using mainly archival evidence, but also submissions from the public.

And in harvester ants, I divide the tasks of the ants I see just outside the nest into these four categories where an ant is foraging, when it's out along the foraging trail, searching for food or bringing food back.

Nadia Shalhoub Kevorkian, a prominent researcher on honour crimes in Palestinian society, draws attention to the societal dimensions of honour crimes, whereby the family acts under pressures from society in fear of being socially ousted.

Inside the growing number of online spaces exploring literature from Latin America, Katie Brown's blog Venezuelan Literature has a presence all of its own. Her project is a careful collection of interviews, works of fiction from Venezuela, and more all seen through the lens of a British academic.

And just doing this I spent time in the archives that's another thing why my husband's a saint I spent time in the Washington archives, just sitting there, looking for these things. Now it's online, but he sat through that.

The fourth story is by Joelle Boutros, a researcher at the Legal Agenda and blogger at joojle31, who remembers the suffering caused by Michel Aoun and Samir Geagea and asks that they both set the ground for a 'real reconciliation between the people, and not just a reconciliation between the leaders and sectarian officials to fulfill their political goals'

So I'm a researcher storyteller, and I'm going to talk to you today we're talking about expanding perception and so I want to talk to you and tell some stories about a piece of my research that fundamentally expanded my perception and really actually changed the way that I live and love and work and parent.

Adele Goldberg (born July 7, 1945) is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language Smalltalk 80 and various concepts related to object oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, in the 1970s.

You have guys walking in a relaxed way down the street, and then an Apache helicopter sitting up at one kilometer firing 30 millimeter cannon shells on everyone looking for any excuse to do so and killing people rescuing the wounded.

It started in Ciudad Juárez, México as an initiative of the MIT Center for Civic Media called Crónicas de Héroes , under the direction of Yesica Guerra, a researcher in urban design with a master's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT.

3.2 As to the effect of the logging on the author's herd, it is submitted that reindeer tend to avoid areas being logged or prepared for logging. They therefore stray to seek other pastures and thereby incur additional labour for the herders.