[Mitworld] President Obama on Clean Energy, Thomas Levenson on Isaac Newton

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 11 |  October 28, 2009

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America's Leadership in Clean Energy
October 23, 2009

Barack Obama came to MIT not just to praise the Institute's leading edge energy research 
but to encourage all of America’s “heirs to a legacy of innovation” in their pursuit 
of discovery.  The nation owes much of its prosperity to risk-takers and entrepreneurs, Obama said, 
and now, given the linked challenges of energy and climate change, we need such pioneers more than ever.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/716

Speaker:
Barack Obama
President of the United States
2009 Nobel Peace Laureate


Event Host:
The Office of the President of MIT

"This is the nation that will lead the clean energy economy of tomorrow, so long as all of us 
remember what we have achieved in the past and we use that to inspire us to achieve even 
more in the future."
-President Barack Obama

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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
October 6, 2009

Who knew that one of mankind’s greatest scientists also worked as a gumshoe on 
London’s mean streets, or that this same absent-minded professor helped England 
fix its monetary policy from an office in the Tower of London?  
Thomas Levenson brings all sorts of surprises to light in his own sleuthing 
of a little known but significant episode in British history involving 
Sir Isaac Newton --  subject of his recent book, Newton and the Counterfeiter: 
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist. 



http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/717

Speaker:
Thomas Levenson
Professor of Science Writing, and Director, MIT Graduate Program in Science WritingDocumentary producer


Event Host:
MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

"Try to imagine
 Stephen Hawking or Frank Wilczek suddenly put in a position where they have to 
police the mean streets of London or Boston. That’s Isaac Newton."
-Thomas Levenson

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In The Pipeline:

The Art of Science Television

Presented By:
Department of Physics
Distinguished Pappalardo Lecture

Speaker:
Paula S. Apsell 
Senior Executive Producer
PBS-NOVA

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