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Climate Change: Ethics in Action

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 5:15pm

WATCH A VIDEO OF THE PROGRAM HERE.

From low-lying Pacific islands to drought-stricken areas in Africa, climate change is already threatening the lives and livelihoods of those who have done the least to cause it. While the moral... Read more

Antidotes to Email (and Life) Overload

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 12:00pm

56-154

Speakers

Elizabeth Wood

MIT Professor of History and Life-Long Meditator

Join us for a 50-minute Hack Your Mind session on Tuesday, November 15.

We’ve all experienced the sense of flow when life goes easily and with grace. Yet we are bombarded with emails and demands on our time pulling us in a million directions. New studies are... Read more

Nuclear Weapons, The Environment and the US Presidential Election

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 7:00pm

6-120

Speakers

Kerry Emanuel

Cecil and Ida Green Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

R.Scott Kemp

Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering

James Walsh

Security Studies Program, MIT

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The planet has two existential threats-nuclear weapons and global climate change. The question of how they are handled should be central to the... Read more