Juan Orbea

Next generation nuclear technology is redefining carbon free energy and solving for the key issues that have previously impeded broad scale adoption.

The 6-9 major jointly resides in EECS and BCS. Enrolled students will have one academic advisor assigned by BCS, with additional advising support from the Course 6 Undergraduate Office.

Second, because VCs are investing earlier, they are taking far more risk on the ability to scale up these technologies, even if they can be proven to work.

Sam thinks we will still really care about interaction with other people. We’ll still have fun, and the reward systems of our brain are still going to work the same way. Star Trek is pretty good, honestly. I like all of the ones that are where we turn our focus to exploring and understanding the universe as much as we can.

Where “snacking” is the broad category of doing easy and low-impact work, there’s a particularly seductive subset of snacking that I call “preening.” Preening is doing low-impact, high-visibility work.

The next generation of nuclear fission reactors will shed the inefficiencies that have plagued the previous generations of light water reactors. One unifying characteristic of many Generation IV reactors is that many are small, modular reactors (SMRs). Unlike traditional large, fixed nuclear power plants, SMRs are small, manufactured off-site, and... See more

From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more