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XXI No.
5 Summer 2009 |
This Special Edition MIT Faculty Newsletter, addressed to President Obama, his administration, and the U.S. Congress, includes articles on climate change; nuclear disarmament; the needs of science; infrastructure; energy; public health; the green initiative; the financial crisis; sustainability; the World Wide Web; and the environment and energy policy.
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| Energy Transitions and Transformations This brief "op-ed" outlines some of the energy challenges and solutions the authors have been conducting research on over the past eight years. |
| The Science We Need and the Needs of Science MIT Dean of Science Marc Kastner offers his perspective on the science and engineering breakthroughs needed in the immediate future. |
| System at a Crossroads: Rethinking Infrastructure and Mobility The authors suggest that a comprehensive and far-reaching response is necessary to truly solve the nation's failing infrastructure crisis. |
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Editorial
The Obama Administration has refreshing support for a renewal of investment in science and engineering. The appointments of Steven Chu, John Holdren . . .
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The crucial issues of climate change and global warming involve all the components of the earth system, atmosphere, oceans, land, biosphere, and cryosphere. |
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As a physicist with a long-standing interest in arms control and a member of the National Board of the Council for a Livable World, I have been gratified by . . . |
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The world urgently needs breakthroughs in science and engineering to meet two goals – renewable energy and global health. Without a reduction of CO2 . . . |
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The U.S. infrastructure system is at a crossroads, and a new approach – encompassing research as well as practice – is needed to move the system forward. |
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The United States, as well as many regions of the world, needs to protect itself economically and environmentally by substantially reducing fossil fuel consumption. |
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Mobile phones – and the twenty-first century networking infrastructure supporting them – are one of the few remaining bright spots in today's economic climate. |
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Although considerable research is underway to develop energy supply technologies that limit environmental damage, the dearth of large-scale affordable solutions . . . |
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What caused the financial crisis? Certain observers blame poor choices by victims and irresponsible decision-making by market actors – and say more regulation . . . |
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No objective is more urgent, more complex, or more encompassing than the passage from a world addicted to material growth to one built on the notion of sustainability . . . |
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The World Wide Web was created for science. Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the Web (1989) was motivated by the need to manage information about experiments . . . |
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This is a note from an academic colleague with something in common with you: we are both fascinated by what science and engineering could do to improve the . . . |
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