"Measuring 'Nothing' and Getting It Right" - a symposium in honor of the physics career of Dr. Stuart Freedman (http://freedman2014.org): Dr. Paul Alivisatos (Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley) and Mr. Paul Freedman (Dr. Stuart Freedman's son) welcome the symposium attendees.
Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail immigrated to the United States in 1996 after increasing harassment over her poetry, which confronts war and exile with subversive depictions of suffering. In 2001 she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. The War Works Hard, won PEN's Award for Poetry in Translation and was selected as one of New York Public Library's twenty five best books of 2005.
Role of dams in water resources; given by Dr. John Cassidy, consulting water resources engineer. Keywords: watert resources development, dams, irrigation, hydroelectric power plants, Three Gorges Water Control Project, Kariba Dam, Folsom Dam Credits: producer:Water Resources Center Archives, sponsor:Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
In celebration of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, space scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are installing an art project called Solar Beacon - topping the bridge towers with glittering solar "candles" (mirrors), called heliostats. Space scientist John Vallerga describes the Solar Beacon project and how the public can experience it.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian.
Full story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/25/artist-and-space-scientists-celebrate-golden-gate-bridge-anniversary-with-solar-bridge/