60-Second Slam! Continued (Video)

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

By Blake Cole

Featured below is a sample of talks from this year's 60-Second Slam, a annual lecture-off held during Penn's Alumni Weekend. This month's featured lectures include:

 

Hooked on Taxes: How Politicians Made Corporations Powerful
Alexander Jerneck, G'15, Sociology



Virtual Collective Conscience and Civil Disengagement
Dyana So, C'16, Visual Studies


 

Soils Sustain Life
Alain Plante, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science


 

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