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The Graduate Council Lectures
Speaker: Carolyn Merchant, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
In the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century, when environmental awareness over loss of forests and depletion of soils was in its infancy, the long term goal of the betterment of humankind through the control of nature was a significant advancement. The experimental vision put forward by Francis Bacon and others enabled humanity to understand science and manage nature. For the 21st century, however, the ethic of control is giving way to one of partnership with the natural world. A partnership ethic entails a viable, sustainable relationship in which connections to the global world are recognized through science, technology, and ecological exchanges. It is an ethic in which humans act to fulfill both humanity's vital needs and nature's needs while restraining human hubris.
Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006] Credits: lecturer:Professor Richard A. Muller, producers:Educational Technology Services
Musical, experimental and inventive poetry from the winner of the 2006 National Book Award.
Influenced by a wide variety of musical traditions, Nathaniel Mackey's mutable and innovative poetry proposes an audience that has abandoned its expectations for poetry and that, instead, is prepared to "enter a liminal state" in which those expectations can be reimagined. Like musical artists John Cage or Ornette Coleman, Mackey presents his poems not as static aesthetic objects, but as ongoing sites of experiment and invention. This is poetry that feels live-- electric, happening right now-- yet it repays reencouter even more fully by teaching its readers first how to listen, and then how to listen differently.
With Craig Santos Perez
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