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  • Harvard Lecture, "Life as a Planetary Phenomenon" class: Exomoons

    Video of a guest lecture I gave at Harvard as part of the "Life as a Planetary Phenomenon" class (SPU30). In this lecture, I discuss the moons of the Solar System ...

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  • Harvard professor Daniel Schrag talks at URI on Climate Change

    February 23, 2010 Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge, presented by Daniel Schrag, professor of earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University.

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  • Harvard Food+ Research Symposium: Daniel Schrag

    Daniel Schrag, Professor of Geology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Environmental ...

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  • Harvard Food+ Research Symposium: Peter Huybers

    Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ...

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  • Proffesor James R. Rice: "Mechanics on our planet"

    H.C. Ørsted Lecture, 1. november 2013 By Professor James R. Rice, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Department of Earth and Planetary ...

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  • Harvard Geology Field Trip to Italy, 2010

    I had the pleasure of traveling to Italy with a Harvard Undergraduate course, called Sedimentary Stratigraphy, which I have been auditing. I went along in order ...

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  • Students in Arctic Geology at Harvard

    Why does geology interest me? Harvard student Esther Kennedy explains. View a short video about Harvard research in the Arctic – unanswered questions, ...

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  • Naomi Oreskes - For Thought: Hope for the Planet

    Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University, and an internationally ...

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  • Engineering Our Way Out of a Climate Catastrophe

    Speaker: Daniel Schrag,Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Discussant: Dale Jamieson, Environmental Studies Program, New ...

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  • Journey to Center of the Earth

    Science for the Public 11/05/13. Miaki Ishii, PhD, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. Dr. Ishii discusses the challenges and the ...

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  • Naomi Oreskes - Using Scientists As Merchants Of Doubt

    Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. In 2010 she co-authored ...

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  • Moon Formation From Collision With Earth

    A new theory by Harvard planetary scientists states that the Moon was formed 4.5 billion years ago after a planetary body half the size of Mars crashed into the ...

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  • Journey to Center of the Earth

    Science for the Public (scienceforthepublic.org) November 05, 2013 Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA Miaki Ishii, PhD, Professor of Earth and Planetary ...

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  • EAPS in Brief: Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald

    Atmospheric chemist Professor Colette Heald joined MIT this spring as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in EAPS and Civil and Environmental ...

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  • Naomi Oreskes - Investigating The Consensus

    Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. In 2010 she co-authored ...

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  • Naomi Oreskes - The Key Strategy Of The Merchants Of Doubt: Attacking The Consensus

    Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. In 2010 she co-authored ...

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  • SoMAS / ITPA - Snowball-Earth Events

    Eli Tziperman from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University speaks to SoMAS on Wednesday August 27 2014.

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  • Why Earth and Planetary Sciences?

    From environmental issues to planetary science, from field trips in the United States and abroad, Earth and Planetary Sciences offers a rigorous yet flexible ...

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  • The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

    About 66 million years ago, 70 percent of all the species that existed at the time, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct in an apocalypse widely ...

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  • Climate Instability: Who's in Control and Why Does it Matter? | Harvard Thinks Green 2012

    Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences James G. Anderson Jim Anderson is Philip S. Weld ...

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  • What is Plate Tectonics?

    View short informational videos about plate tectonics – how it works, its effects on the surface geology of our planet, and related research by Harvard scientists.

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  • Momentum on Fossil Fuel Divestment Grows As Harvard Professors, Desmond Tutu Call For Action

    http://www.democracynow.org - Momentum is growing in the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies. On Thursday, South African Archbishop Desmond ...

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  • Guest Night 2016-David Kring: Impact Cratering on the Moon

    Video recording of Guest Night talk at the Houston Museum of Natural Science June 11 2016. A View from the Moon: Impact Cratering and Its Effect on the Origin ...

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  • Predicting Earthquakes

    What happens when tectonic plates collide? Earthquakes! View short informational videos about plate tectonics – how it works, its effects on the surface geology ...

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  • 3 Planets That Shouldn't Exist

    We explore several exoplanets whose features make us think they shouldn't even have been able to form in the first place! ---------- Support SciShow by ...

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  • Becoming a Geologist

    Why am I a geologist? Harvard Assistant Professor Francis Macdonald answers. View a short video about Harvard research in the Arctic – unanswered ...

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  • John Asher Johnson, "Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Around Cool Stars"

    Just three years ago the prospect of finding temperate, rocky worlds around other stars was still the subject of science fiction: none had been found and ...

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  • The Overview Effect: Freethink@Harvard

    The world-premiere of the short documentary film "Overview," detailing the cognitive shift in awareness reported by astronauts during spaceflight, when viewing ...

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  • Paul Horowitz: "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" | Talks at Google

    Paul Horowitz visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project at Harvard University. Establishing an ...

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  • Why Study Arctic Geology?

    Why do I study geology? Harvard Doctoral candidate Justin Strauss explains. View a short video about Harvard research in the Arctic – unanswered questions, ...

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  • Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect - Session One

    The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium discussed the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of ...

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  • Why We Became Scientists: Naomi Oreskes

    Working with scientists for over a decade has taught me one thing: they are an interesting and varied bunch. Fiercely dedicated to their chosen career, love what ...

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  • 5 Terrifying Planets You Don’t Want To Visit!

    5 Strangest Planets In Space You Won'tBelieve Exist! Description: The mystery behind all planets has always captivated many and the inevitable discoveries to ...

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  • Mercury, Venus, and the Dance of the Planets || Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Owen Gingerich, CfA For all of us, it's now or never to see Venus silhouetted against the face of the sun. On June 6 the goddess will transit the sun, ...

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  • Confronting Climate Change: Insights from the Nuclear Disarmament Movement

    The Center for Public Scholarship (www.newschool.edu/cps/) at The New School for Social Research (http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/)presents a conversation ...

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  • White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae: Crash Course Astronomy #30

    Today Phil follows up last week's look at the death of low mass stars with what comes next: a white dwarf. White dwarfs are incredibly hot and dense objects ...

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  • Ultra thin lenses made by JPL and Caltech used to hide Nibiru system planets ?12/6/2016

    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4706 http://newatlas.com/ultrathin-flat-lens-harvard/23890/

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  • Dean's Lecture Series 2015 - Prof. Neil Brenner

    Dean's Lecture Series 2015 Professor Neil Brenner Professor of Urban Theory / Director, Urban Theory Lab / Graduate School of Design / Harvard University ...

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  • Magnetic Storm, Deep Space | S0 News Dec.10.2016

    Featured: http://www.QuakeWatch.net http://www.Suspicious0bservers.org http://www.SpaceWeatherNews.com http://www.ObservatoryProject.com http://www.

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  • Acid Oceans, Osteoporosis of the Sea: the Failed Global Warming Scare. Willie Soon, Ph.D.

    From DDP 28th Annual Meeting, June 12, 2010 -- Orlando, FL. Willie Soon is both an astrophysicist and a geoscientist at the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary ...

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  • Towards the search for life on other earths | Sara Seager | TEDxCoconutGrove

    Sara Seager examines her pursuit of an Earth Twin. Looking at Earth from the perspective of outer space may allow us to recognize and to identify ...

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  • Threat of a Nuclear Terrorist Attack

    Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/01/Iran_North_Korea_and_Nuclear_Energy A panel of defense policy analysts discusses the likelihood of a nuclear ...

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  • Nebulae: Crash Course Astronomy #36

    Astronomers study a lot of gorgeous things, but nebulae might be the most breathtakingly beautiful of them all. Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space.

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  • Doing Geology in Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard (P.England)

    A brief tour around the learning points of Philip while studying around the world Philip England, professor at the University of Oxford, has radically improved ...

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  • How are Mountains Made?

    What happens when tectonic plates collide? Mountain building! View a short video about plate tectonics – how it works, its effects on the surface geology of our ...

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  • The Hazards of Earthquakes

    What happens when tectonic plates collide? Earthquakes! View short informational videos about plate tectonics – how it works, its effects on the surface geology ...

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