Sixty Second Lectures

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/news/sixtysec_lectures_archive.html

Every spring and fall, SAS faculty take a minute out on Locust Walk to share 
their perspectives on topics ranging from human history and the knowable 
universe, to fractions and fly-fishing. While not every speaker makes it 
under the one-minute mark, they all deal with their chosen subjects with 
intellectual agility and wit.  

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The Truth About Hybrids

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200711/mrgreen_mailbag.asp#headaches

Some wonderful urban legends have sprung up about the Prius and its battery, 
the most colorful being this claim about the hybrid being less ecofriendly 
than a Hummer. Some of the more thrilling chapters originated in one study 
done by a marketing company that was not peer-reviewed but, unfortunately, 
was widely quoted in the media. Writer George Will, who is syndicated in 450 
papers, penned an April column on the topic, headlined "Use a Hummer to Crush 
a Prius." The story was also pumped into the Internet-disinformation pipeline 
by gleeful bullies for whom size is apparently quite important, and before 
long the Prius had morphed into a sort of traveling toxic-waste dump trailing 
clouds of diabolical fossil-fuel exhaust.  

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