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    Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City

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    Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American Cit

    Indian Environmental Politics: an interview

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    Amita Baviskar is a key analyst of environmental politics and culture in India. Her research and publications have addressed the intense conflicts over water, caste and class arising from the Narmada River dams, and she is currently working on the politics of urban conservation and contestations over public space in Delhi in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games. Her publications include her monograph: In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. (Oxford University Press, 1995); her co-authored book: Untouchability in Rural India, (Sage Publications: New Delhi 2006) and her edited: Waterscapes: The cultural politics of a natural resource, (Uttaranchal: Permanent Black, 2007) This interview was conducted by Nick McClean during Amita�s visit to Sydney for the Cities Nature Justice conference, held 10 � 12 December, 2008, at the University of Technology Sydney. Nick McClean is currently undertaking PhD research at ANU on comparative approaches to conservation in Australia and India

    Sea Turtle Conservation: Interview

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    Kartik Shanker is a biologist at the Centre for Ecological Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has published on sea turtle biology and marine conservation and is the immediate past President of the International Sea Turtle Society. He edits the journal Conservation and Society, based in India and offering analyses of global conservation politics and ecology which foreground the perspectives of the global South. This journal focuses on communication not only between researchers and advocates working in the ecological sciences and in social science and humanities, but in fostering communication between academic researchers on the one hand and community and NGO audiences on the other. This interview was conducted by Nick McClean during Kartik�s visit to Sydney for the Cities Nature Justice conference, held 10 � 12 December, 2008, at the University of Technology Sydney. Nick McClean is currently undertaking PhD research at ANU on comparative approaches to conservation in Australia and India

    Resurrecting the Author

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    Presentation of Nicholas Wolterstorff\u27s Paper Resurrecting the Author with time after for questions beginning at 18:00

    Heritability and Linkage Analysis of Appendicitis Utilizing Age at Onset

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    Appendicitis usually afflicts the young, but there is a large tail in the distribution of onset age. The genetics of this disease are still not well understood. A heritability analysis and genome wide linkage analysis of a large twin dataset was undertaken. Treating age of onset of appendicitis as a censored survival trait revealed a heritability of 0.21, and found evidence of linkage to Chromosome 1p37.3. Author(s): Christopher Oldmeadow 1 * | Kerrie Mengersen 2 | Nicholas Martin 3 | David L. Duffy

    Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code / Real Estates

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    Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist whose work explores the intersections between nature, technology, and the city. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural history of the Apollo 11 spacesuit. He is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley. The work of his design studio has been exhibited widely and is currently being featured in the US Pavillion of the 13th Venice Biennale

    Nicholas Meyer: 10-31-1979

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    Nicholas Meyer is a screenwriter, producer, director, and author, and a graduate of the University of Iowa. He is the author of the screenplay the Seven Per Cent Solution and co-author of The Black Orchid. He begins the interview by discussing his professional career as both a film writer/director and a novelist. He then talks about how he began writing novels, and discusses the research that goes into his novels. Meyer continues by discussing his movie Time After Time and concludes the interview by listing prominent teachers and writing influences.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Video

    Nicholas Meyer: 10-31-1979

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    Nicholas Meyer is a screenwriter, producer, director, and author, and a graduate of the University of Iowa. He is the author of the screenplay the Seven Per Cent Solution and co-author of The Black Orchid. He begins the interview by discussing his professional career as both a film writer/director and a novelist. He then talks about how he began writing novels, and discusses the research that goes into his novels. Meyer continues by discussing his movie Time After Time and concludes the interview by listing prominent teachers and writing influences.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1022/thumbnail.jp

    Interview with Nicholas Wade by Marni Siegel, November 8, 2007

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    The interview was a project of the Center for Public Genomics (http://www.genome.duke.edu/centers/cpg/).Nicholas Wade is a science writer for the New York Times and author of several books, including LifeScripts, about genetics and genomics. He also covered the Asilomar Conference for Science magazine.Funded by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the US Department of Energy (P50 HG003391)

    LSE festival Beveridge 2.0 preview: the five giants by Nicholas Timmins

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    On Monday 19 February, LSE Festival opened with ‘The Five Giants and the Ministers Who Made a Difference’. Chaired by LSE Director Minouche Shafik, Nicholas Timmins, author of The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State, and Professor Sir Julian Le Grand debated the key UK politicians who really made a difference when it came to Beveridge’s ‘Five Giants’: listen to the podcast here. Ahead of the event, Nicholas Timmins gives insight into the reception and impact of Beveridge’s 1942 report, as well as its enduring significance in today’s global, 21st-century context
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