Cspan campaign 2014. More than 100 debates for the control of congress. Now a discussion on federal science policy and the use of simulation to address national threats. The chief scientist for the National Nuclear Security Agency and a special adviser to energy techtary. He addresses the university of tennessee Howard Baker Center for publictoba÷ policy in knoxv. This is about an hour. Thank you. That was an overly generous introduction. Thank you, again, taylor. I think the hospitality here at the baker center, the university of tennessee has been remarkable. Its a wonderful place, and im happy to be here. You know, as an academic who ended up in washington for some reason, i wanted to give you my personal take on computational science, what we do and kind of how i view this. I think its an interesting story, i hope youll find it interesting, too, as a beta tester, i guess this can fail and still be successful as part of your learning so we can look at it that way. So i have some fr
Which seem to come up almost annually . There is always something that comes up where science can likely inform and i think this was the case where we did quite a bit of air sampling and air modeling. We did really quite a bit of support for japan and i think there was a very positive story that came out of this understanding, what happened at the site and what it means to japan and u. S. Citizens as well or to the continental United States. There are other places. We have been working for a good year or so on trying to look at governance models. How we work, how many agencies can, and partner with us at our National Laboratories to solve some of their interesting problems. What is the way we can engage other agencies to answer their Strategic Issues using the tools we have like oak ridge or other National Laboratories. We had a conversation with Janet Napolitano on december 18 on this, saying that a Partnership Model as part of our effort to develop a stronger strategic relationship b
If everything we own had improved over the last 25 years as much as electronics have, the average family car would travel four times faster than the space shuttle. Houses would cost two hundred bucks. Whats the secret behind electronics stunning advances . How many times have i reviewed these and wondered exactly whats inside there . Do you mind if i have a look . No, not at all, go ahead. Id like to have a look inside. Please do. Where i come from, you want to know how something works, you cut it open. Sony versus saw. Here we go. Think you guys are standing far enough back . cause i would not want anyone to get hurt. evil laughter what do you think well find . Elves . Butterflies . And now lets see what really is on the inside of a digital camera. Not much, really. And no moving parts at all. This digital camera. This is the brains. Pogue . Runs on a halfinchwide microchip. So it seems like if this is really the heart of the camera, a lot of it just exists so that i can handle it wit
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Economic dilemma of huge proportions. When german retailers started charging for plastic bags consumption of them fell dramatically by two billion bags a year not bad but a manton of them still end up in recycling bins here and a huge number never get recycled at all despite germany being a Global Recycling champion. Decided to take an up close and personal look at the problem. My flatmates are the best at recycling most of our waste ends up in the regular trash. Everyone says we really should be recycling because waste is full of valuable materials. Paper glass organic waste only whats left should go in the trash. Here in germany theres a separate bin for every kind of waste. Is something useful done with all of this. Germans produce an average of over six hundred kilos of waste a year. The countrys reputation for recycling is tops that take packaging only forty percent of it is actually recycled and often its turned into lower quality products. Incineration but at least that does pro