[Mitworld] New: Emanuel and Moniz on Energy, Yaffe on Cancer

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 18 | January 17, 2007
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[THE CHALLENGE: MEETING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMANDS SUSTAINABLY]

In the first of a three part Soap Box series on energy Emanuel and Moniz
discuss climate change, global energy needs, energy policy and "Al
Gore's movie".

SPEAKERS:
Kerry Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science

Ernest J. Moniz
Co-Chair, MIT Energy Research Council
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems

Co-director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/413/>

[QUOTE]
"If you took all the ice off of Greenland, melted it, and put it in the
ocean, you're talking about seven meters of sea level rise: say goodbye
to Cape Cod, southern Florida, a lot of Manhattan. It's maybe not a
very probable event but we don't know enough to rule it out and it
keeps us awake."
-- Kerry Emanuel


EVENT HOST: MIT Museum
<http://web.mit.edu/museum/

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[COMPUTATIONAL AND SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO CANCER]

Yaffe brings a computational approach to understanding cell division and
cell damage, and implications for cancer drug development.

SPEAKER:
Michael Yaffe
Howard S. and Linda B. Stern Associate Professor of Biology, Department
of Biology and the Center for Cancer Research


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/398/>

[QUOTE]
"If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, to
divide, a cell would have to copy 568 thousand miles of DNA. That's
enough to go around the circumference of the earth over 22 times. And
it must copy this much DNA with no errors."
-- Michael Yaffe


EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science
<http://web.mit.edu/science/>

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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics

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