Past Events
May 03, 2010
Prof. John Deutch of MIT will present the 2010 Godkin Lecture at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Deutch will explain why United States energy policy has failed over the last forty years to put the country on a path toward greater energy efficiency, less imports, less risk of climate change, and more rapid innovation. He recommends changes to the policy making process. Deutch argues that, without such changes, future progress on energy policy is highly doubtful.
May 03, 2010
Prof. Carl Wunsch of MIT will present a lecture in the MSEAS series. Abstract: The seemingly simple problem of determining mean sea level and its changes produces a series of technically challenging and interesting sub-problems.
May 01, 2010
STP Crossroads is an afternoon forum event bringing together science and technology policy communities from across the Boston area. Speakers include Jean Sideris, Climate and Energy Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Chris Mooney, author of "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future", and Christopher Reddy, Director of the Coastal Ocean Institute at Woods Hole.
Visit the STP Crossroads website to see the program agenda.
April 26, 2010
What happens when research announcements go wrong; statistics are manipulated; risk factors are distorted; or discussions become polarized? In connection with the Cambridge Science Festival, Sense About Science will be holding a discussion session on science and the media for early career researchers in all sciences, engineering and medicine (PhD students, post-docs or equivalent in first job).
Speakers:
April 22, 2010
In the face of ever more complex and pressing global environmental issues, broad scientific literacy has never been more vital. Yet in this polarized, populist world of IT overload—this Age of Sound Bites—communicating science to the public and policymakers alike has never been more challenging. Who's responsible and what’s to be done? Our distinguished and lively panel will dive in and dig for answers:
April 22, 2010
Speaker: William McDonough, designer/architect. Abstract: The current design of human industry and the products and systems that result from its "cradle to grave" characteristics puts humans on a collision course with nature. If all the detrimental defects of our current system were actually planned; climate destabilization, acidified oceans, toxic landscapes and rivers, etc. – one might say the human species has become strategically tragic as it creates a world of limited resources and destitution for billions of people.