Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2021
Volume 66, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session Y15: Connecting with the PublicInvited Live Outreach Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: FOEP Chair: James Kakalios, University of Minnesota |
Friday, March 19, 2021 11:30AM - 12:06PM Live |
Y15.00001: The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Invited Speaker: Michael Mann Vested interests profiting from our reliance on fossil fuels and their enablers in the policy and media arenas have for decades sought to undermine the scientific consensus behind human-caused climate change. The motive? Forestalling efforts to decarbonize our economy. As the impacts of climate change have now become too obvious to deny, the forces of inaction—the inactivists--have now instead engaged in a multi-pronged strategy of distraction, deflection, division, and despair-mongering. They have (a) pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy of sowing division among climate activists and advocates, (b) deflected attention from systemic change and regulatory policy solutions to personal behaviour, (c) promoted false solutions that enable the continued burning of fossil fuels at the very root of the problem and (d) fomented doomist framing that disempowers us by making catastrophic change now seem inevitable. I will discuss what we can do to fight back, emphasizing the importance of both urgency AND agency in the effort to save our planet from catastrophic warming. |
Friday, March 19, 2021 12:06PM - 12:42PM Live |
Y15.00002: For the Geek in Everyone Invited Speaker: Jeanna Bryner
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Friday, March 19, 2021 12:42PM - 1:18PM Live |
Y15.00003: Invited Talk Matthew O'Dowd Invited Speaker: Matthew J O'Dowd TBD |
Friday, March 19, 2021 1:18PM - 1:54PM Live |
Y15.00004: Stuff Matters Invited Speaker: Mark Miodownik In 2010 I attempted write a book about why anyone should bother with materials science. As a materials scientist myself I was interested in the answer, having had a crisis of confidence many times in my career. But the main audience was the general public. I hoped that by writing this book I would shine a well-deserved spotlight on an underappreciated discipline. It took me many years to write the book and when it did finally get published, I was unprepared for the reception it got and how it would transform me. In this talk I describe the process of writing and publishing a popular science book, what I have learnt doing it, and how it has changed the nature of my academic career. The book is called Stuff Matters and so is this talk. |
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