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  1. Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces

    Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek discusses his work and his life in science.

    This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.

    Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been pushing the limits of what we know about particle physics and exploring what holds our universe together since he was 21, and contributing to the definition of gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together. Throughout a storied career in physics he has not only been at the forefront of his field but also an able and enthusiastic public communicator, helping to connect recent developments in fundamental physics to the general public, most recently in his book the The Lightness of Being.

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  2. Tyler Jacks: Genetics of Cancer

    Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, talks about his research on cancer and his career in genetics.

    This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.

    Tyler Jacks is the David H. Koch Professor of Biology and a leading researcher in the genetics of cancer. Jacks was named the 2005 Simon M. Shubitz Lecturer and Award recipient, and shared the 2005 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research awarded by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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  3. Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table from WGBH Forum Network

    In this collection of essays, New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser showcases the food-inspired recollections of some of America’s leading writers playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists in the magazine. Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table a collection of essays from the New York Times, collects the twenty-six best stories and recipes to accompany them. Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn’t prepared to navigate. Poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate. Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, Patricia Marx, John Burnham Schwartz, George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer, and Heidi Julavits, among others.

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