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<div><b>*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN E40-496
on the 4th Floor.*</b></div>
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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">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">TODAY - Friday, November 21</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">3:00-4:30 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Room E40-496</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 (available at the COOP). 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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<div>The 6:00 event in the Bush Room mentioned in an earlier email has
been canceled.</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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