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Socializing with ScientistsSUMMER 2025 UPDATE!The first eight episodes of Socializing with Scientists Season 1 have been a blast! Next Wednesday we'll publish another interview, but this week we're taking a little breather. I wanted to talk about what's coming up, to say thank you to the scientists who have spoken with me, and to tell the listeners who have been tuning in each week how much I appreciate you: There are so many other things you could be doing with your time, the fact that you're lending me your brains for an hour means so much!There are two hidden scientist gems...2025-06-0406 minSocializing with ScientistsDesirée Plata wants to keep bad chemicals out of your water (she's an environmental chemist)When Desirée was little, she'd roam around her grandmother's neighborhood in Maine, "kind of eavesdropping on people," she said. She began to notice a troubling pattern: many of the neighbors, and some of her family members, were suffering from odd neurological conditions and cancers. Desirée began to think that something in the air or water must be causing these illnesses. Desirée Plata, PhD, is now an environmental chemist at MIT studying the fate of chemicals that have escaped into the environment. She's trying to improve the world by studying new technologies and materials that also...2025-05-0150 min
What if it works?Why we should care about methaneMethane is the only greenhouse gas that will change the rate of warming in our lifetimes, according to MIT Professor Desirée Plata. So, why aren’t we talking about it more? Plata explains methane’s role in climate change and shares how she, perhaps counterintuitively, is accelerating the rate at which methane converts to carbon dioxide to help combat climate change.What if it works? is a production of the MIT Energy Initiative. This episode was hosted by Rob Stoner and Kara Miller.Transcript and show notes at energy...2025-01-2945 min
Deporte UNAMGoya Deportivo: Plata pare el Kickboxing auriazul en Universiada 2024🥊 El kickboxing auriazul logró una medalla de plata con Anahí Desiree Tapia Ochoa, de Arquitectura, en la división de -60 kg femenil en la Universiada Nacional 2024.
🎙️ Platicamos con la medallista Anahí Desiree Tapia Ochoa, Marino López Cruz de Ingeniería, participante en la categoría -67 kg varonil y Donovan Ponce Martínez, Presidente de la Asociación de Kickboxing de la UNAM
🟢 Esta entrevista fue emitida el 8 de junio de 2024.
📻No te pierdas las mejores noticias de cultura física y deporte universitario. E...2024-06-2419 min
Historias del RetabilloBernadotte de revolucionario francés a rey suecoLa Casa Real de Bernadotte es la actual dinastía reinante en Suecia desde 1818 y entre este año y 1905 fue también la casa real de Noruega. El origen de esta familia no es otro que la revolución francesa de hecho, su primer miembro fue un mariscal francés a las órdenes de Napoleón que fue elegido monarca sueco por el parlamento de este país y asociado al trono del entonces rey
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Berezán, Eduardo y Ernesto Gontrán Castrillón (autores) Rey se ofrece: Bernadotte, el agente sueco y la monarquía en el Río de la...2024-05-1030 min
TILclimateHow tackling methane cools the planet fastCarbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about, on this podcast and elsewhere. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too. Stopping methane emissions today is a powerful way to dampen climate change in the very near term—to keep the Earth cooler in the next 10 or 20 years. So today, Prof. Desiree Plata returns to TILclimate to tell us—how do we get that done?For a deeper dive and additional resources related to this episode, visit: https://climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e2-how-tackling-methane-cools-planet-fastFor more episodes o...2023-10-1212 minTILclimateWait, how do greenhouse gases actually warm the planet?You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding to our atmosphere. But—how do these gases actually keep heat from escaping into space? And why these gases in particular? To help answer these questions, we invited Desiree Plata, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT and the director of the MIT Methane Network.For a deeper dive and additional resources related to this episode, visit: https://climate.mit.edu/podcasts/wait-how-do-greenhouse-gases-actually-warm-planetFor more episodes...2023-10-0514 min
La DeportecaLa Deporteca Nocturna - Programa 339 (29/09/2023)El Museo del Traje de Madrid se vistió de gala el pasado jueves 21 de septiembre para acoger la presentación del documental 'Power', de la Fundación Sanitas y producido por Play The Unit. En este documental que ya se puede ver en Amazon Prime Video aparecen deportistas de la talla de Carl Lewis, Sergio Llull, Saúl Craviotto, Teresa Perales, o Desirée Vila pero se centra en Ignacio 'Pincho' Ortega una de las perlas del baloncesto en silla español. El madrileño ha sido una pieza clave en la reciente plata europea del combinado nacional y lleva i...2023-09-3029 min
Energy ReadsCapturing methane before it warms the climateMethane is the second most impactful human-generated greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. Desirée Plata, an environmental engineer and professor at MIT, is developing tools to reduce methane with the goal of cutting emissions by 45% by 2030, which would save up to 0.5 degree Celsius of warming by 2100.
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Lock The QuillMIT President Sally Kornbluth, Inauguration Weekend, Grounds Department, and a Presidential Quiz - Ep 12As campus prepares for inaugural events, MIT's 18th President, Dr. Sally Kornbluth, visits the lab to talk with us about her move from Provost at Duke University in Durham NC to President of MIT. We talk about leadership, the early read on campus, and some thoughts about getting the job done. We meet Lock the Quill's newest feet on the street, Danny and Dylan, of the Grounds Department, and we close the episode with an MIT presidents quiz with a number of students.President Kornbluth's podcast, Curiosity Unbounded: https://news.mit.edu/2023/curiosity-unbounded-podcast-desiree-plata-0419 2023-04-2839 min
Curiosity UnboundedHow a free-range kid from Maine is helping green-up industrial practices — Desirée PlataIn this episode, MIT President Sally Kornbluth sits down with newly tenured associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Desirée Plata. Her work focuses on making industrial processes more environmentally friendly, and removing methane (a key factor in global warming) from the air.Links:Desirée PlataWoods Hole OceanographicPlata LabGlobal Methane Pledge2.00b Toy Product DesignShow notes and transcript:https://news.mit.edu/podcast/podcast-curiosity-unbounded-episode-1-how-free-range-kid-maine-helping-green-industrialJoin the mailing list or send us feedback:https://eepurl.com/ixPQPA2023-04-1922 min
MIT NewsCuriosity Unbounded, Ep 1: How a free-range kid from Maine is helping green-up industrial practices — Desirée PlataIn this episode, MIT President Sally Kornbluth sits down with newly tenured associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Desirée Plata. Her work focuses on making industrial processes more environmentally friendly, and removing methane (a key factor in global warming) from the air.Show notes and transcript:https://news.mit.edu/podcast/how-free-range-kid-maine-helping-green-industrial-practices-desiree-plataThe Curiosity Unbounded podcast brings you behind the scenes at MIT through conversations between MIT President Sally Kornbluth and the people working in its labs and in the field. Along the way, Sally a...2023-04-1922 min
120 secondes : BOXE - BOXEO - BOXING120 secondes - Épisode 19 : 2023 commence sur les chapeaux de roues en boxe féminine!Aïe aïe aïe!
L'année 2023 vient à peine de commencer et on a déjà un combat qui sera candidat à combat de l'année chez les femmes: Il s'agit de celui de Kim Clavel vs Yésica Nery Plata.
Kim n'a malheureusement pas gagné son pari de début d'année, qui était celui d'unifier à la maison, mais il reste encore plusieurs chemins pour arriver à destination quand-même. On vous décortique ce qu'on a aimé et ce qu'on a moins aimé de ce combat et on jase de la suite pour Clavel et pour Nery Plata.2023-01-211h 08
Planet PhiladelphiaCheap effective way of controlling methane emissions - Desirée Plata, MIT’s Ralph M. Parson Laboratory School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDesirée Plata from MIT’s Ralph M. Parson Laboratory School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will discuss the problems with the powerful GHG methane and a cheap plus effective way of controlling methane emissions using clay to improve our chances of dealing with the climate crisis. Planet Philadelphia, is a radio show about our shared environment airing 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st and 3rd Fridays a month on 92.9 FM WGGT-LP & http://gtownradio.com. For more information: www.planetphiladelphia.com | @planetphila2022-03-0528 min
Cine con Mc FlyEntrevista a Gonzalo Calzada - Director de NOCTURNAEstreno 30 de septiembre
Cine Gaumont
Avenida Rivadavia 1635
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JUEVES 30/9 - 20HS - SALA 1 LEONARDO FAVIO
Con la presencia del elenco y director
Del Jueves 30/9 al Miércoles 6/10
Sala 1 - Funciones 15, 17:30 y 20hs
Entrada general $90 - Jubilados y estudiantes $45
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MRS Bulletin Materials News PodcastEpisode 3: Desirée Plata: Functionalization of CNTs with heteroatomsMarkus Buehler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and editor of the Impact section of MRS Bulletin interviews Desirée Plata, the Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT about her group’s development of new methods toward functionalization of carbon nanotubes with heteroatoms, which enables covalent attachment, opening up a world of potential materials structures. This research is relevant because common functionalization techniques for carbon nanotube materials (and other, similar nanostructures) are often hazardous, and have adverse environmental impacts, and lack precision. The research group evaluated an in situ functionalization tec...2021-09-1418 min