Documents tagged "Cornell University"
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026731.txt
The speaker at Cornell University gives an inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture emphasizing the need for optimism and thinking globally, rationally, and long-term. The lecture discusses how human activity has caused faster changes in vegetation, land use, carbon dioxide levels, radio wave emissions, and small projectile launches over just a few thousand years compared to Earth's 4.5 billion year history. This rapid change could not have been predicted by hypothetical aliens observing the planet.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017060.txt
This document lists participants for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland in January 2011. It includes individuals from a variety of countries and organizations, such as Cornell University, PepsiCo Europe, Abraaj Capital Limited, comScore Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Allianz SE, Scribd Inc., Better Place Israel, and Barclays PLC. The list is intended for planning purposes only and not for publication.