[Mitworld] New: Tegmark on Cosmology, Perrow on Catastrophe

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 21 | January 11, 2008
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[THE SECOND LAW AND COSMOLOGY]

SPEAKER:
Max Tegmark
Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/513/>

[QUOTE]
"If what we can observe here requires much more bits to describe than a
complete mathematical description of the world that we can put on
T-shirt, than we're in some kind of multiverse, or some much larger
reality than what we can observe."
-- Max Tegmark


EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering <http://meche.mit.edu/>

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[THE NEXT CATASTROPHE: REDUCING OUR VULNERABILITIES TO NATURAL,
 INDUSTRIAL, AND TERRORIST DISASTERS]

SPEAKER:
Charles B. Perrow
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/510/>

[QUOTE]
"Instead of a Department of Homeland Security, we could have a
Department of Homeland Vulnerabilities. ... 90% of DHS money on
terrorism goes to airport security. I'm much more worried about chemical
plants and tank cars and dams and levees. An earthquake in California
could (turn) the Sacramento Valley into the largest soup bowl in the
nation."
-- Charles B. Perrow


EVENT HOST: Program in Science, Technology and Society
<http://web.mit.edu/sts/>

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MIT Center for Global Change Science and MIT Earth Systems Initiative
present

Roger Angel
Director
Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory
University of Arizona

Solar Energy as a Major Replacement for Fossil Fuel
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