Zephyr Frank, go to 3:25 Eve Blau, go to 24:39 Diane Favro, go to 52:48 Zephyr Frank, of Stanford University's Spatial History Project, notes that maps can be seductive, and offers two provocative statements: maps do not have to be beautiful; and ""we should make fewer maps."" As Frank notes, ""maps are not an end point but a means to new thoughts and problems."" Eve Blau, from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, discusses the use of historical maps as a research tool, focusing on examples from Central Europe. ""Architecture defined built space.... [but] what you see is not necessarily what is there; if something looks like something, it does not always operate as you expect."" UCLA's Diane Favro provides a response to both speakers. Mapping and Its Discontents was presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative (http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu) and the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative (http://www.urbanhumanities.ucla.edu/#)

A Microbiologist's Intellectual Odyssey Lucy Shapiro Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Lucy Shapiro,Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research in the School of Medicine, Stanford University, for a discussion of her career in the biological sciences. Topics discussed include unraveling the mystery of bacterial DNA, creativity in the sciences,the interdisciplinary nature of biology, the policy challenges posed by the increasing threat of infectious disease and the diminishing efficacy of antibiotics, and the problem of bioterrorism. Recorded April 2, 2009 http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html ...