[Mitworld] New: Prinn on Climate Change, Manning on Language Learning

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 18 | December 27, 2007
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[ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE, ECONOMICS AND POLICY]

SPEAKER:
Ronald G. Prinn
TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Sciences
Director, Center for Global Change Science; Co-Director of the MIT Joint
Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/509/>

[QUOTE]
"We don't have another planet to play around with."
--  Ron Prinn


EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science
<http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/>

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[CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL HARVEST]

In part 4 of this series, Cynthia Rosenzweig discusses climate change
and its affect on the global harvest.

SPEAKER:
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Senior Researcher, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/506/>

[QUOTE]
"Twentieth century linguistics was mistakenly searching for homogeneity
in language, under the misguided assumption that only homogenous systems
can be structured."
-- Christopher Manning


EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
<http://lids.mit.edu/>

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