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<p style="color: #777777;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;margin: 0;padding: 0 0 10px 0;">Volume 10, Number 12</p>
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<a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/830"><img src="http://mitworld.mit.edu/thumbs/video/browse/mitw01355eapsgulfspillpt1zuber28sep2010.jpg" alt="Video" width="140" height="105" /></a>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"Deep-water drilling is going to continue, and it must be done safely, without impacting negatively
the environment, or lives and livelihoods of residents."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Maria Zuber</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/830" style="color: #94353b;">Perspectives on the Unfolding Spill: Evidence of the Environmental Impacts of the Event</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">September 28, 2010</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">While the government declared an end to the oil spill at the Macondo well on September 19, 2010,
research into the causes and impacts of the Gulf disaster is ongoing. At the kickoff panel of a
three-part symposium, three scientists discuss what they are learning about the disposition of
the nearly 5 million gallons of oil, as well as gas and chemicals, injected into Gulf waters
following the blowout.</p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Moderator</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Maria T. Zuber</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics<br>
Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT </p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Event Host</h3>
<p style="color: #94353b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;"><div style="width:200px;"><a href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/" style="color: #94353b;">Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences</a></div>
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<a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/832"><img src="http://mitworld.mit.edu/thumbs/video/browse/mitwstill01354artsabramowdatakoblin30sep2010.jpg" alt="Video" width="140" height="105" /></a>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"We decided to use Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was intended for, and that’s making money.
So we took a hundred dollar bill and divided it into 10,000 pieces, which leaves each piece with a
value of one cent. And we paid that one-cent to individual workers to recreate their portion (of it).
So what you see are 10,000 people recreating their piece of the hundred-dollar bill, in what’s
to my knowledge the largest distributed forgery project on the planet."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Aaron Koblin</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/832" style="color: #94353b;">Crowds and Clouds: Data, Sheep, and Collaboration in the Works of Aaron Koblin</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">September 30, 2010</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Where others see just data points and fodder for bar graphs, Aaron Koblin visualizes dynamic systems
where information assumes forms both abstract and familiar. In this talk, Koblin shares recent
projects that meld statistical science and art to convey a really big picture, while often
inviting the viewer to partake in a more personal experience. </p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Speaker</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Aaron Koblin</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">2010 Abramowitz Artist in Residence, MIT<br>
Technology Lead, Google Creative Lab </p>
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