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Culinary Chemistry: Adventures in Chocolate
Culinary Chemistry: Adventures in Chocolate
Naveen Sinha
April 26, 2012
00:38:09
As part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum presented a lunchtime series of talks, Culinary Chemistry. Soft matter physicist Naveen Sinha provides a fun and educational talk about the physical properties of chocolate that affect the experience of eating it.
Culinary Chemistry: Rising to the Occasion
Culinary Chemistry: Rising to the Occasion
Rob McQueen
April 24, 2012
00:49:17
As part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum presented a lunchtime series of talks, Culinary Chemistry.
Culinary Chemistry: (Chick)peas on Earth
Eliad Shmuel
April 23, 2012
00:31:38
As part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum presented a lunchtime series of talks, Culinary Chemistry.
The Politics of Food's Environmental Footprint
The Politics of Food's Environmental Footprint
Susanne Freidberg
April 17, 2012
00:53:38
The business of growing, processing, transporting and storing food has a substantial impact on the environment. How is that impact calculated, and who calculates it?
Rivers of Ice Panel Discussion
Patrick Heimbach
April 13, 2012
00:40:05
The MIT Museum presents a panel discussion about their exhibit Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya.
Past Climate and Sea-Level Changes: Looking Back to Our Future
Past Climate and Sea-Level Changes: Looking Back to Our Future
Stephen Pekar
March 8, 2012
00:54:22
Carbon dioxide levels are predicted to rise during this century to levels not seen in over 25 million years.
The Evolution of Global Climate Change Institutions
The Evolution of Global Climate Change Institutions
Alexander Thompson
March 6, 2012
01:21:22
A variety of political and legal institutions have been established over time to manage the issue of climate change at the global level, mostly centered on the UN. These institutions have varied in terms of the nature and depth of obligations they impose on states.
Renaissance Roots of Modern Science
Renaissance Roots of Modern Science
Toby Lester
March 6, 2012
00:57:40
Toby Lester, author of widely acclaimed books on two of the great achievements during the Renaissance, visits with Science for the Public to discuss important discoveries, and rediscoveries, that brought about the first map to show America (The Fourth Part of the World (2009), and