"Statistically, if you extrapolate from the December data we're pretty close to discovery significance, " said John Ellis, professor of theoretical physics at King's College London and guest professor at CERN.

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As a guest professor with me at the graduate course at UCLA, titled Navigating a Narrative World, Marco Iacoboni, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, provided one of the most surprising insights behind the power of telling a purposeful story.

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The use of technology in education in emergencies is also on the agenda with guest speaker Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University (UK).

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This is a guest post by Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.

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This is a guest post from Jane Yakowitz, a visiting law professor at Brooklyn Law School.

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The guest lecturer on Sunday night was Daniel Kammen, an energy professor at UC Berkeley.

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Once again, Paul Tierney , my good friend, legendary private equity and emerging markets investor, and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School, has invited me to be a guest lecturer at his emerging markets finance course.

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