TEDxHunterCCS - Peter Galison - Remember Us: Memorializing Nuclear Waste.
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Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University; his doctoral dissertations were at Harvard in the history of science and in particle physics (electroweak theory). Galison's work explores the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of physics--experime... Read more
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- -: TEDxHunterCCS - Peter Galison - Remember Us: Memorializing Nuclear Waste.
January 3, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University; his doctoral dissertations were at Harvard in the history of science and in particle physics (electroweak theory). Galison's work explores the complex interaction between th...
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- -: Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading...
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- -: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future
April 7, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers three predictions on the future of Iran. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: Reagan Revisited: Did Star Wars Work as a Negotiating Tactic?
October 27, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=399 Former Secretary of State George Shultz and Former Ambassadors Rozanne Ridgeway and Max Kampelman discuss the importance of the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka "Star Wars") to negotiations with the Soviet Union. ----- Join the Hoo...
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- -: Hitchens and Hanson - Did the Allies Commit War Crimes in WWII?
August 14, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/09/Uncommon_Knowledge_Hitchens_and_Hanson Political commentators Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson dismiss allegations that Allied actions in World War II were comparable to war crimes committed by Axis forces. ----- Victor Davis Hanson and ...
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- -: Nuclear Nightmare: Fallout from an India-Pakistan War
October 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/21/Richard_Rhodes_Twilight_of_the_Bombs Author Richard Rhodes presents a simulation of the potential climate impacts of an India-Pakistan nuclear exchange. The immediate destruction, he says, would kill 20 million -- followed by another billion from fail...
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- -: Ellsberg: What if Hitler Had Dropped the Bomb?
October 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/29/The_Bomb_Daniel_Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, imagines how nuclear weapons would be viewed today if Germany had used them in World War II. Because they would not have changed the ou...
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- -: President Obama Signs Iran Sanctions Act
July 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)The President signs the Iran Sanctions Act, saying that the Iranian government has failed to meet its obligations under Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and reiterating that the United States stands with the Iranian people as they pursue universal rights. July 1, 2010.
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