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<div>Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series</div>
<div>Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the
Environment</div>
<div><http://lfee.mit.edu></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">A quick reminder, please join us for a
special seminar speaker:</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Global Environment & Energy
Correspondent for The Economist</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"Communicating Scientific
Complexity:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Linking Urgency to Abstraction in a
Data-Shy World"</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Friday, November 21</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">3:00-4:30 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Room E40-298</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">ABSTRACT</font></div>
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</x-tab>Vijay Vaitheeswaran, energy and environment writer at The
Economist magazine, spends his days breathing excitement into what
most people consider a sleep-aid: scientific evidence. This
indefatigable writer has been told a million times that Energy is
Boring. Friends and family began to ostracize him for bringing up
topics like the myth of hydrocarbon scarcity at dinner parties.
Colleagues questioned his sanity when, five years ago, he turned down
a posting in sunny Brazil for the energy job in London. Even Vijay
himself, on more than one rainy London day, has wondered why. So he
did the only thing he could do: he wrote a book about the future of
energy.</font></div>
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</x-tab>Please come and hear his tales of misadventure as he set about
writing POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Cameo appearances by cow dung, the most
powerful oilman in the world, and Cindy Crawford are all promised.
Along the way, he'll reveal his insights into communicating complex
information successfully to a general (and generally uninterested!)
non-technical audience. He'll describe the travels, investigations,
and analysis required to tackle a scientifically complex and
politically charged topic. He'll explain some of the obstacles he
overcame to write the book, not least the skepticism of those around
him. And he'll even let you in on the secrets of writing for, and
pitching your ideas to, The Economist.</font></div>
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</x-tab>Vijay will also be talking to MIT alumni at 6:00 p.m. in the
Bush room (10-105), in case you are unable to attend this seminar.
His book is available at the COOP.</font></div>
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<div>Light refreshments will be provided.</div>
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please contact Karen Gibson, kgibson@mit.edu</div>
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_________________________________</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Karen L.
Gibson</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Program
Assistant</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">MIT Laboratory For Energy and
the Environment</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">77 Massachusetts Avenue,
E40-469</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">(1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for
DHL and FedEx)</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Cambridge, MA 02139
USA</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Tel: 1 (617) 258-6368;
Fax: 1 (617) 258-6590</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva"
color="#000000">http://lfee.mit.edu</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva"
color="#000000">http://globalsustainability.org</font></div>
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