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Can the average person help search for life on other planets? Help create models for climate prediction? Or aid in finding a cure for mad cow disease? You can if you participate in volunteer computing. A Tech Tuesday look at how thousands of people are leasing out their computers spare power to solve the world's problems.
David Anderson, Research scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory, and director of SETI@home, University of California, Berkeley
Dan Wertheimer, chief scientist, SETI@home
Bruce Allen, principal investigator, of Einstein@home; Professor of physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
How yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the sale of out-of-state wines will affect Maryland, Virginia and D.C. connoisseurs.
Gordon Murchie, Wine Advisor to the Virginia Wineries Association, President of the Vinifera Wine Growers Association, and former Director of the National Wine Coalition
George Griffin, Director of the Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control, President of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association
Ethnomusicologist Tim Duffy saw the hard life many blues artists and mountain musicians were living, and wanted to help. So he created a foundation -- part recording company, part artist management service, and part social welfare agency. As the Music Maker Foundation turns ten years old, we revisit some of the music.
Tim Duffy, founder and director, Music Maker Relief Foundation
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