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In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses how the new nation moved towards creating a stronger, more centralized national government than the Articles of Confederation. Complications of commerce between individual states - a factor that wasn't regulated by the Articles - led to a series of interstate gatherings, like the Mount Vernon Conference of March 1785. Some strong nationalists saw these meetings as an ideal opportunity to push to...more
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Founding of Teach for America: Entrepreneurs Envision What Others Say is Impossible
Stanford / Entrepreneurship
Smith talks about how a series of experiences prepare an entrepreneur to found a new venture. Entrepreneurship is about solving a problem in a better way and finding a way to make it happen, despite everyone telling you it cannot be done, she says. People did not believe Teach for America would work, but Smith and founder Wendy Kopp realized people weren't becoming teachers because they weren't being recruited and the process to get certif...more
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July 20, 2006 presentation by Mark Zoback and Mary Lou Zoback for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach's Summer Science Lecture Series. Mark Zoback, Professor of Geophysics and Mary Lou Zoback, Senior Research Scientist with the USGS, talk about the current status of earthquake prediction efforts, including the potential for breakthroughs from exciting new experiments they are carrying out.
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June 28, 2007 presentation by Michael Longaker for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach's Summer Science Lecture Series. Dr. Michael Longaker, Director or Children's Surgical Research, explains how regenerative, reparative, replacement and tissue engineering medicine represent an emerging field that holds great promise for core problems in medicine world wide.
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Komisar relates some of the advice that George Lucas, acclaimed director of the Star Wars series, gave him in order to create compelling and visionary ideas: It is difficult to paint on a blank canvas, but it is easier to do so when there are few dots already splashed on. The notion of innovating around inchoate concepts are applicable to the entrepreneurship business, Komisar notes.
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England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of architectural excess and was followed by a series of disasters which lasted much of the fourteenth century. Yet against a catastrophic background English architectural individualism flourished and out of radically changed social structures an architectural consensus emerged.
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August 3, 2006 presentation by Uwe Bergmann for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach's Summer Science Lecture Series. Uwe Bergman, Physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator takes the viewer on a journey of a 1,000 year old parchment from its origin in the Mediterranean city of Constantinople to a particle accelerator in Menlo Park.
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Professor Sylvia Ceyer covers crystal field theory in both the tetrahedral case and the square planar case. The discussion then moves to the spectrochemical series and strong/weak field ligands. A conversation on magnetism, both paramagnetic and diamagnetic, in transition metals concludes the lecture.
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"Where is the moral basis of leadership, where is its moral spirit, in the age of globalisation and the digital revolution?" The final part in a series of lectures and discussions to examine the challenges of leadership at a time of financial and geo-political dislocation.
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Michael Cox and D'Artagnan Scorza join the Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP) speaker series. ESLP is a student designed, student developed, and student facilitated program offered through UCLA's Institute of the Environment.
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A lecture to mark the publication of Vernon Bogdanor's book based on the series of lectures delivered at Gresham College during 2006 and 2007, Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World.
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The second part in a series of conversations/discussions with distinguished leaders who will examine the challenges of leadership at a time of financial and geo-political dislocation.
