From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Jul 5 19:24:43 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:24:43 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Evangelicals and the Media, Panel on Nuclear Energy and Weapons Message-ID: <751924.LUIDVAXL@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 42 | July 6, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EVANGELICALS AND THE MEDIA] MODERATOR: Amy McCreath Episcopal Chaplain, MIT Coordinator, Technology and Culture Forum PANELISTS: Gary Schneeberger Special Assistant for Media Relations, to James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and chairman Diane Winston Knight Professor in Media and Religion, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Jon Walker Communications consultant, for Rick Warren and Purpose Driven Life Ministries PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The majority of evangelicals in this country are not represented by a lot of the strong political claims made by some evangelical leaders. Talk to 7 out of 10 evangelicals, and they would say they're not properly served by the divisive political dialogue going on under their name." -- Diane Winston EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [CAN NUCLEAR ENERGY AND NON-PROLIFERATION CO-EXIST?] MODERATOR: Owen Cote, Jr. Associate Director, MIT Securities Studies Program PANELISTS: Matthew Bunn Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Marvin Miller Research Affiliate, Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society Geoffrey Forden Research Associate, Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group, MIT program in Science, Technology and Society PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The reality is, so far, despite major blows to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in recent years, we haven't seen an accompanying spread of nuclear weapons. The number of nuclear states is nine today, and 20 years ago, it was nine." -- Matthew Bunn EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World on iTunes U A small sampling of MIT World videos are now available for download at Apple's iTunes site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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Schneider Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Damages that will occur are highly differential: melting Arctic sea ice will probably save the fishing industry $50 million a year in having shorter routes but it will wreck the culture of the Inuits, established over 5,000 years, or destroy the polar bear ecoysystem." --Stephen H. Schneider EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [THE LUCIFER EFFECT: UNDERSTANDING HOW GOOD PEOPLE TURN EVIL] SPEAKER: Philip Zimbardo Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "All evil begins with a big lie." --Philip Zimbardo EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World on iTunes U A small sampling of MIT World videos are now available for download at Apple's iTunes site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Professional Education Programs [OPEN THE DOOR TO AN MIT EDUCATION] MIT Professional Education Programs (PEP) helps professionals stay up-to-date with the latest advances in rapidly changing disciplines, gaining new knowledge and mastering new technologies. 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The minute you start thinking of things as memoir, it caramelizes and beautifies things." --Jamaica Kincaid EVENT HOST: Literature Section ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FOLK CULTURES AND DIGITAL CULTURES] MODERATOR: David Thorburn MIT Professor of Literature MacVicar Faculty Fellow Director, MIT Communications Forum PANELISTS: Thomas Pettitt Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Denmark Lewis Hyde Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College Fellow, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Harvard University S. Craig Watkins Associate Professor, Department of Radio, Television and Film, University of Texas, Austin PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Central figures in the high culture museum, the most revered and central figures in fact, folks like Shakespeare and Homer, actually in their own time belonged to what we must call something like the popular culture." --David Thorburn EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World on iTunes U A small sampling of MIT World videos are now available for download at Apple's iTunes site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Professional Education Programs [OPEN THE DOOR TO AN MIT EDUCATION] MIT Professional Education Programs (PEP) helps professionals stay up-to-date with the latest advances in rapidly changing disciplines, gaining new knowledge and mastering new technologies. 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Robert Horvitz EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [BUILDING VERY SMALL MOBILE MICRO-ROBOTS] SPEAKER: Bruce R. Donald William and Sue Gross Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I don't know where it's written down that you have to carry your power supply with you all the time." --Bruce Donald EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World on iTunes U A small sampling of MIT World videos are now available for download at Apple's iTunes site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Professional Education Programs [OPEN THE DOOR TO AN MIT EDUCATION] MIT Professional Education Programs (PEP) helps professionals stay up-to-date with the latest advances in rapidly changing disciplines, gaining new knowledge and mastering new technologies. 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