[Mitworld] Walter Lewin on Light, Panel on Slavery

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[THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT]

Physics meets performance art as Lewin takes on properties of water and
sound to ponder the mystery of light.

**Speaker:**

**Walter Lewin**
Physics Professor



PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/291/>

[QUOTE]
"If sound plus sound can give silence, is it possible that light plus
light can give darkness?"
-- Walter Lewin


EVENT HOST: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
<http://space.mit.edu/>

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[THE WORLD DEBATE]

Panelist discuss why there continues be forced labor in numerous
countries and industries and what can be done to eliminate it.

[SPEAKERS]

**Moderator:**
**Zeinab Badawi**
Presenter, The World, BBC Four

**PANELISTS:**
**Jean-Robert Cadet**
Author, _Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American_

**Steven Law**
Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor

**Kevin Bales**
Director, Free the Slaves, Inc.
Professor of Sociology,
University of Surrey Roehampton, in London

**Jagdish Bhagwati**
University Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia
University

**Roger Plant**
Head of the Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor
International Labor Organization

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/290/>

[QUOTE]
"The cost of taking a person into a situation of forced slavery has hit
rock bottom."
-- Kevin Bales

EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies
<http://web.mit.edu/cis/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

**MIT Communications Forum presents**


[** "THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMMONS"** ]

A panel discussion featuring
  **Nancy Kranich**
  **Steven Pinker**
  **Ann Wolpert**


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