New videos are posted on Twitter--a new way to keep up with MIT World. http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20110103/b6a59b7c/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Mon Jan 10 07:05:06 2011 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:05:06 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] Lawrence Susskind on Negotiating the Gulf Disaster, Anna Badkhen on Peace Meals Message-ID: <201101101205.p0AC56x9021291@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 23 | January 10, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------- Negotiating the Gulf Disaster October 26, 2010 The Gulf Oil spill hurt many individuals and businesses, and there is broad agreement that they deserve compensation. But working out the nuances of damage payment is no simple matter, as Lawrence Susskind describes in conversation with an MIT Museum audience. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/851 Speaker: Lawrence Susskind MCP '70, PhD '73 Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT Director, Public Disputes Program and Visiting Professor, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School Event Host: MIT Museum "There is a big experiment going on. We?re not used to doing it this way, at this scale. What should we be learning from this? Is this an improvement from the Exxon Valdez?" -Lawrence Susskind -------------------------------------------------------------- Peace Meals October 19, 2010 While breaking bread around the world with friends and families suffering through war and deprivation, Anna Badkhen managed to compile not just a vivid chronicle of lives under duress, but a cookbook. In this dialogue with MIT political scientist Fotini Christia, Badkhen describes her new work, Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/853 Speakers: Anna Badkhen Journalist and Author, Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories Fotini Christia Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT Event Host: Center for International Studies "How do you put the Bush decade in a way we can all relate to? You discuss it over dinner. I tried to invite the people who made a deep impression on me in reporting to the dinner table, and talk on a human level about what it was like to survive the decade." -Anna Badkhen -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out Presented By: School of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker: Kent Kresa Chairman Emeritus Northrop Grumman Corporation -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter 140 characters at a time. http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld
New videos are posted on Twitter--a new way to keep up with MIT World. http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20110110/f7b5637a/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Thu Jan 13 10:21:24 2011 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:24 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] Christopher Reddy on Oil and Ecosystems, Panel on President Obama at Mid-term Message-ID: <201101131521.p0DFLOqV016178@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 24 | January 13, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------- Mixing Oil and Ecosystems November 10, 2010 ?An oil spill is a crime scene,? says Christopher Reddy, but quite unlike the kind in TV whodunits, where fictional forensic whizzes help nail down perpetrators with an arsenal of lab tools. For Reddy, a chemist involved in analyzing oil spills, investigations take years, and do not always yield certain results. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/862 Speaker: Christopher Reddy Marine Chemist and Director, Coastal Ocean Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Event Host: MIT Museum "Any scientist who is careful will say, 'What is the data telling me and what can I get out of it without somebody putting a black hat on my head and calling me an alchemist.' It?s going to be really, really hard." -Christopher Reddy -------------------------------------------------------------- Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess President Obama on Afghanistan, Climate, and the Economy November 9, 2010 President Obama scored abysmally on his mid-terms. A trio of MIT professors renders harsh judgment on the president half-way through his administration, and their assessments may leave listeners ?weeping or depressed,? in the words of moderator Richard Samuels. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/854 Moderator: Richard Samuels PhD '80 Director, Center for International Studies Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT Event Host: Center for International Studies "The U.S. runs a big current account deficit. We spend more than we earn relative to the rest of world, and much of that current account deficit is imported oil. We finance that by selling treasury bills to China. If that sounds like a nonsensical scheme, that?s because you just understood it correctly. This is a huge national security issue." -Simon Johnson -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles Presented By: Transportation at MIT Speaker: Sanjay Sarma Professor and Director, MIT/SUTD Collaboration Office MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter 140 characters at a time. http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld
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