[Mitworld] New: Dill on Biophysics, Panel from NBC's Heroes

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[THE SECOND LAW AND BIOPHYSICS]

In part 8 of this symposium Meeting the Entropy Challenge, Kenneth Dill
explains his research experiments that explore how dynamical laws apply
to very small biological systems, such as those inside cells.

SPEAKER:
Kenneth Dill
Professor of Biophysics
Associate Dean of Research, University of California, San Francisco


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/537/>

[QUOTE]
"This is not quite Maxwell's demon because that would be a temperature
difference. This is really sort of Maxwells' brother's demon or
Maxwell's demon's brother. In which case, what happens is, it's going up
against a concentration gradient instead of a temperature gradient."
-- Kenneth Dill


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

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[NBC'S HEROES: APPOINTMENT TV TO ENGAGEMENT TV]

Two progenitors of broadcast TV's rapid expansion into the digital world
provide narrative and back story for the development of NBC's crossover
series, Heroes.

MODERATOR:
Henry Jenkins
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative
Media Studies Program

PANELISTS:
Jesse Alexander
Co-Executive Producer and Writer, Heroes, NBC

Mark Warshaw
Writer, Producer, Director, Heroes, NBC


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/538/>

[QUOTE]
"As to how fans get compensated, they won't even compensate writers. We
as creators will find ways to show appreciation to the diehard fans.
We'll incorporate their names into shows, encode secret messages for
them."
-- Jesse Alexander


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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