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ItemHollywood Science: Good for Hollywood, Bad for Science?(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-10-05) Perkowitz, SidneyThere’s plenty of science in Hollywood’s science fiction and superhero films, but how much of it is real and how much is pure Hollywood? It’s hard to tell because these films often amp up a meaningful scientific premise to enhance reality, improve dramatic impact, or support stunning special effects. Examples include superhuman powers arising from favorable mutations, human clones used for spare body parts, and breakthroughs like intelligent robots, fusion power, and faster-than-light space travel. Dr. Perkowitz will show clips from a variety of science fiction films and examples from his book Hollywood Science to illustrate differences and connections between real science and Hollywood science.
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ItemThe Future of Science is Art: Or What We Can Learn About the Brain from a 19th-Century French Chef and Kanye West(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-10-01) Lehrer, JonahJonah Lehrer presented a talk on "The Future of Science is Art: Or What We Can Learn About the Brain from a 19th-Century French Chef and Kanye West." Lehrer is editor-at-large for Seed magazine and author of "Proust Was A Neuroscientist." A 2003 graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes Scholar, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and studied with Hermione Lee at Oxford. He has coauthored a peer-reviewed paper in Genetics and worked as a line cook at Melisse and at Le Cirque 2000, and as a prep cook at Le Bernardin.
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ItemLocal Food: Sustainability is Participation(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03-03) Katz, Sandor EllixEating local is more than a consumer experience. It means rebuilding a whole web of relations and demands not only interactions with farmers, but more of us becoming food producers directly involved with the sources of our food: plants, seeds, animals, microbes, earth. Get inspired to reclaim food, power, and dignity. Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist, activist, and author, who travels widely teaching and sharing fermentation skills. His passion for fermentation developed out of his overlapping interests in food, nutrition, and gardening.
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ItemWomen, Work and Public Spaces: Conflict and Coexistence Among Karachi’s Poor(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-11-01) Ali, KamranKamran Ali works on issues of medicine, gender and colonialism in Egypt. Ali's work covers a number of interdisciplinary fields: Family planning programs in Egypt, Egyptian masculinity and male involvement in family planning decision making; the history of the labor movement in Pakistan; gender relations in Pakistan; social movements in Pakistan; tourism in the Middle East ; development; health; political economy; post-colonialism; Middle East; Egypt; South Asia. He has a joint appointment in Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology at UT Austin.
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ItemEngaging Animals(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-04-05) Snæbjörnsdóttir, Bryndís ; Wilson, MarkBryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson have been collaborating since 2001. Their work, characteristically rooted in the north, explores issues of history, culture and the environment in relation to the individual and his/her sense of belonging or detachment. This project is a survey of taxidermic polar bears existing in the United Kingdom today. In its methodology it actively sets out to track down these specimens. The project is designed to generate a discourse in which the audience is invited to consider their relationship not only to the polar bears themselves, but to the history of their collection, presentation and preservation.