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Biot-Savart Law - Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields - Revisit the "Leyden Jar" - High-Voltage Power Lines

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En este recurso se describe la Ley de Biot y Savart sobre el cálculo de campos magnéticos producidos por líneas de corriente, también se discute la Ley de Gauss que se aplica al cálculo de campos magnéticos de corrientes con alguna simetria.

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• Ciencias

America's Leadership in Clean Energy

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In welcoming President Obama, MIT President
Susan Hockfield summarizes the vast array of energy innovation at MIT, including the MIT Energy Initiative and the student-led 1700 member Energy Club, and declares, "We share President Obama's view that clean energy is the defining challenge of this era."

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• Leyes, Política y Gobierno

Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next U.S. Administration

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“I’ve drunk kava in the South Pacific and rubbed noses with natives,” says William Fallon. “I’ve enjoyed tender baby camel as a delicacy. I’ve met presidents, kings, prime ministers and many ordinary folks. I’ve done a lot of things. That was yesterday. What matters is today and tomorrow.” Now, says Fallon, is the time for all Americans to get down to business addressing the key crises confronting them. And he does mean ordinary Americans, not just the next president.

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• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Leyes›Leyes (EUA)›Leyes Generales (EUA)

Key Issues In the Department of Defense for the Obama Administration

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These five security specialists seem dubious about major Defense Department reforms as the Obama administration winds into action.

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• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Ciencia Militar y Naval›Armadas

Chomsky on Gaza

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While he admits to no surprise about events in Gaza, Noam Chomsky does consider “the latest U.S.-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians” a step beyond terrorism and aggression. He says “some new term is needed for the sadistic and cowardly torture of people caged with no possibility of escape, being pounded daily by the most sophisticated products of U.S. military technology.”

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• Historia y Arqueología›Regiones y Países›Asia y Oriente Medio›Oriente Medio›Israel (Palestina)

Forced Labor: The World Debate

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Jean-Robert Câdet lost his childhood, when at the age of four, he became a slave to a rich Port-au-Prince family. After years of washing floors, fetching water, and sleeping under the kitchen table, he found freedom when his owners moved to the U.S., and kicked him out. Câdet, who says the “biggest part was the emotional detachment,” wonders today why the U.S., Haiti’s biggest foreign donor, doesn’t “link foreign aid to the elimination of slavery.”

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• Negocios y Economía›Economía›Economía Laboral›Obras Generales e Historia

Forced Labor in the Globalized World

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Before buying your next chocolate bar or sweatshirt, bear in mind its potential hidden cost: the forced labor of an impoverished worker. According to a recent International Labor Organization report, 12.3 million people from developing countries toil miserably to produce goods and services for industrialized nations. One after another, speakers on this panel reveal the astonishing pervasiveness of modern-day slavery, on which, it seems, the entire global economy now depends.

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• Negocios y Economía›Economía›Economía Laboral›Obras Generales e Historia

Computers with Commonsense: Artificial Intelligence at the MIT Round Table

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Visiting the San Diego Zoo’s orangutans and chimpanzees inspires Patrick Henry Winston to ponder what makes humans different from our primate cousins. His field of artificial intelligence extends that question to thinking about how humans differ from computers. Winston’s goal is to “develop a computational theory of intelligence.”

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• Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas