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03 Sep TSRC Town Talks: Musings on 2014
and planning for 2015 2014 is a big 30th birthday year for the Telluride Science Research Center, and reflecting on the success of this summer’s Town Talks reminds me that with your support, we have established an annual tradition unique to our community. For eight consecutive Tuesdays...
25 Jun Telluride Science Research Center: Town Talks
TSRC Town Talks take place Tuesday evenings, July 1 until August 19 6pm – 7:15pm What: TSRC Town Talks are an engaging, down-to-earth, annual summer lecture/discussion series in Telluride, Colorado presented by Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC). TSRC Town Talks are a public component of Telluride...
03 Aug Limitless Energy and Disease Discovery at Final TSRC’S Town Talk
“The discovery of natural gas and fracking technology give us about 40 more years. Whether good or bad, these buy us enough time to make solar work,” said Joseph Hupp, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Porfessor Huff is referring to the time remaining on...
27 Jul TSRC’s Town Talks: DNA, Unpredictable, Unstable Molecule that Holds the Future in its Strands
Inside every living cell is a long, coiled strand of DNA that contains all the information needed to make an entire organism. It’s been called the blueprint of life, but DNA sequences are hardly set in stone. In fact, they are constantly changing through natural...
20 Jul TSRC’s Town Talks: Scents and Knots, Molecules We Overlook
We take for granted many things rooted in science: leaves falling, runny noses in the cold, static electricity, the scent of roasting coffee, traffic patterns. Each of these phenomena carries biological, chemical, or mathematical significance, yet they are so commonplace that rarely does anyone stop...
13 Jul TSRC’s Town Talks: Molecular Science As It’s Happening Now
Nonequilibrium phenomena, biomagnetic particles, thermal transport, quantum trajectories, phrases like those reverberate through the halls of Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC). For the majority of the public, they are perplexing or intimidating “sciency” words, but for scientists, they are the foundational theories that solve bigger...
06 Jul Town Talks: Future of Planet Written in Forest Trees
“The idea was… Someone, somewhere may be willing to offset carbon emissions by supporting rainforest preservation in a developing country.” The quote is George Weiblen, Associate Professor of Plant Biology at University of Minnesota, talking about “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation” (or REDD), a...
29 Jun TSRC Town Talks: Solar Fuel 2.0
A global problem with a global solution By 2100, the world’s global energy consumption will amount to over triple its rate in 2001. Currently, fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas) supply 85% of this demand, but their supplies are limited, and their combustion is linked...