[Mitworld] New: Burnham on Iraqi Casualties, Pendry on "The Perfect Lens"

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[COUNTING THE DEAD IN IRAQ]

Burnham reports the grim details of his efforts to document civilian
deaths in Iraq.

SPEAKER:
Gilbert M. Burnham
Co-director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/453/>

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"Our findings show that deaths among civilians have risen to very
serious proportions. The nature of the violence is changing -- car bombs
are increasing -- but gunfire remains the major cause of death. The
deterioration of the health system and environment may now be starting
to result in increased mortality."
-- Gilbert M. Burnham


EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum <http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/>

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[THE PERFECT LENS: RESOLUTION BEYOND THE LIMITS OF WAVELENGTH]

Pendry provides insights into the physics of light and the surprising
concept of "negative refraction."

SPEAKER:
John Pendry
Chair, Theoretical Solid State Physics Faculty, Department of Physics,
Imperial College London


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/455/>

[QUOTE]
"This wavelength limit [to resolving lines on a microchip] is now
becoming quite serious. We have this huge object 'the photon' which is
blundering around, and can't see anything smaller than 500 nanometers,
interacting with electrons, which are confined to wires a few tens of
nanometers across."
-- Sir John Pendry


EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
<http://rleweb.mit.edu/>

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Center for International Studies
Emile Bustani Seminar Series presents

Kenneth Pollack
Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy and
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies/Brookings Institution

Iran: War or Peace?
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