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In the midst of her search for life on other planets, astrophysicist Sara Seager's own world is shattered when her husband is told he has stage three cancer.

Professor Sara Seager is a planetary scientist and astrophysicist. She has been a pioneer in the vast and unknown world of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun. Her ground-breaking research ranges from the detection of exoplanet atmospheres to innovative theories about life on other worlds to development of novel space mission concepts. Now, dubbed an "astronomical Indiana Jones", she on a quest after the field's holy grail, the discovery of a true Earth twin. Dr. Seager earned her PhD from Harvard University and is now the Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Seager is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and was named in Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential in Space in 2012.

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Sara Seager: A New Search For Life

A conversation with Judith Donath SM '86, PhD '97, whose book The Social Machine was published by MIT Press in May 2014. The book is a chronicle of Donath's projects in social media dating from the late 1980s, long before the term was in vogue. Read more: http://bit.ly/1TjtJwr

Donath also traces the rise of social media to its roots in Usenet groups and discussion boards to the conquests of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Donath explores why these media thrived while others failed, and the book serves as both a guide for researchers studying social media and a cautionary tale for casual users who don’t always question them critically enough. 

Learn more about Judith Donath: http://vivatropolis.org/judith/  
Book homepage: http://vivatropolis.org/SocialMachine/
Podcast transcript: https://bit.ly/2Gz80lL

The Social Machine (Alumni Books Podcast)

Professor Noam Chomsky, UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 (Part 3 of 3)

Contours of global order: Domination, stability, security in a changing world.

Professor Noam Chomsky explores the crucial role of a supportive intellectual culture in an environment of potentially dangerous irrationality in policy-making circles and among sectors of the political class, while institutional structures bar efforts to confront very serious domestic and international issues.

UCLTV Playlist of lecture excerpts: http://bit.ly/dKk2qY

Further links:
Blog post on the event: http://bit.ly/hwklig 
Professor Chomsky's MIT page: http://bit.ly/gon5cT

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Professor Noam Chomsky - UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 (Part 3 of 3): Questions & Answers

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