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<div>Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series<br>
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">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">*Note new time and date for this
seminar:</font></div>
<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><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">ABSTRACT<br>
<x-tab> </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.<br>
<x-tab> </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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<div>Light refreshments will be provided.</div>
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<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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