[Mitworld] New Picower Institute: Expand Your Mind, Lynd on Biomass

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[EXPAND YOUR MIND: GETTING A GRASP ON CONSCIOUSNESS]

Philosophy meets neurobiology in this final panel from the Picower
Inaugual.

MODERATOR:
Ira Flatow
Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday


SPEAKERS:
Alexander Shulgin
Pharmacologist and Chemist

Christof Koch
Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology,
California Institute of Technology

Patricia Churchland
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/342/>

[QUOTE]
"Let's treat consciousness as an empirical problem to be tackled by the
biological sciences."

--Christof Koch


EVENT HOST: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

<http://web.mit.edu/picower/>

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[THE ROLE OF BIOMASS IN AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE]

As the price of gasoline tops $3 a gallon, Lynd presents his vision for
conversion to biofuels in an agricultural process that would meet both
food and energy needs.

SPEAKER:
Lee R. Lynd
Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Thayer School

of Engineering and Department of Biology, Dartmouth College
Professor Extraordinary of Microbiology at the University of
Stellenbosch in South Africa


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/343/>

[QUOTE]
"There are hazards to driving with your low beams on. Sustainability and

energy security pose such serious problems that if we only drive with
our low beams, we may get so close to precipitous events that we may
have few options, or graceful options left."

--Lee R. Lynd


EVENT HOST: Energy Research Council

<http://web.mit.edu/erc/forum/>

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MIT Energy Research Council Colloquia

Amory Lovins
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Rocky Mountain Institute

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