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Is that smile real or fake?

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Do you smile when you're frustrated? Most people think they don't -- but they actually do, a new study from MIT has found.

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MIT Video contains more than 10,000 videos. Here are some of the most recently added and featured.

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The Invention of the Battery
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
The Invention of the Battery

How does a battery work? Allow Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani to explain.

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Jet-injected drugs may mean the end of needles
  • Mechanical engineering,
  • News
Jet-injected drugs may mean the end of needles

MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle.

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MaKey MaKey
  • MIT Media Lab,
  • Feature
MaKey MaKey

MaKey MaKey, created by Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum of the MIT Media Lab, is a simple invention kit that allows users to turn everyday objects into touchpads.

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How a Vaccine Works
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
How a Vaccine Works

Ever wonder what exactly a vaccine does to prevent you from getting sick? Watch this video to find out how it works.

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L. Rafael Reif named MIT president
  • MIT News,
  • News
L. Rafael Reif selected as the 17th president of MIT

Reif, 61, was elected to the post on Wednesday, May 16, by a vote of the MIT Corporation. He will assume the MIT presidency on July 2.

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ZeroN
  • MIT Media Lab,
  • Feature
ZeroN

What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air?

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MIT-henge
  • Community videos,
  • Feature
MIT-henge

A light-hearted look at the twice-a-year phenomenon in which the setting sun lines up with MIT's "infinite corridor."

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Making wrinkles for drug delivery
  • MIT News,
  • News
Making wrinkles: hydrogels that collapse into complex shapes may aid in ...

Nick Fang says predicting how hydrogels transform could help in the design of more complex and effective drug-delivery systems.

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Biology flash mob
  • David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research,
  • Feature
Bio Flash Mob at the Koch Institute

200 Boston-area students, MIT scientists and local community members came together to make cutting-edge cancer research come to life.

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The MIT Science Fiction Society
  • MIT News,
  • Feature
The MIT Science Fiction Society

MIT’s Science Fiction Society curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published.

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The history of 2.007
  • 2.007,
  • Feature
2.007 — 'the mother of all robot contests'

MIT's annual 2.007 mechanical engineering robot contest has been dubbed the mother of all robot contests.

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EdX: The Future of Online Education is Now
  • MITx,
  • Feature
EdX: The Future of Online Education is Now

EdX is a not-for-profit joint venture between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer online versions of their classes and those of other universities.

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Stu Puts Stephen on Notice
  • Community videos,
  • Feature
Stu Puts Stephen on Notice

Stu Schmill of the MIT Admissions Office puts Stephen Colbert on notice for trashing MIT during a recent interview with Richard Hersh on the Colbert Report.

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Optogenetics: Controlling the brain with light
  • McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
  • Feature
Optogenetics: Controlling the brain with light

This animation illustrates optogenetics — a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light.

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Visionaries: Tod Machover
  • MIT Media Lab,
  • Feature
Visionaries: Tod Machover

WBUR's Visionaries series featured Tod Machover of the MIT Media Lab, and his use of music in therapy for emotionally and physically challenged individuals.

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Fog-free glass
  • MIT News,
  • Demonstration
Fog-free glass

MIT researchers' new "multifunctional" glass, based on surface nanotextures that produce an array of conical features, is self-cleaning and resists fogging and glare.

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MIT+K12 student video highlights
  • MIT+K12,
  • Educational
MIT+K12 student video highlights

Highlights from the MIT+K12 student videos. Watch all the videos at http://k12videos.mit.edu/

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Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop
  • Arts,
  • Event
Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop

Robert Lepage visited MIT on Sunday, Feb. 12, to initiate a collaborative workshop with MIT students and launch the class 21M.805, Performance and Design Practicum.

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Sustainability at MIT
  • Alumni,
  • Feature
Sustainability at MIT: Greening MIT's Campus and Beyond

The concept is getting a hands-on workout at MIT through projects that use the campus as a test lab.

BLOSSOMS - The Respiratory System of Birds (English ...
  • BLOSSOMS,
  • Educational
BLOSSOMS - The Respiratory System of Birds (English Subtitles)

Teacher: Seham Tahir Musa Al-BohadjaSummary: This video aims to provide an illustrative lesson about the respiratory system in birds and howthe adaptations of that system over time have made it different than that of other living creatures,especially mammals.  ...

Casalegno: Connected Sustainable Home Project
  • Industrial Liaison Program,
  • Profile
Casalegno: Connected Sustainable Home Project

Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...

Casalegno: Human-Centric Approach to Connectivity
  • Industrial Liaison Program,
  • Profile
Casalegno: Human-Centric Approach to Connectivity

Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...

Casalegno: The City as a Living Organism, Bus Stop Example
  • Industrial Liaison Program,
  • Profile
Casalegno: The City as a Living Organism, Bus Stop Example

Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...

Casalegno: Video Production and Consumption Research
  • Industrial Liaison Program,
  • Profile
Casalegno: Video Production and Consumption Research

Federico Casalegno, Ph.D.MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, DirectorMIT Design Laboratory, Associate Director Federico Casalegno teaches and lead research teams at the MIT, rethinking and designing interactive media to foster connections between people, ideas and ...

BLOSSOMS - Arabesque: Where Art Meets Mathematics (Arabic)
  • BLOSSOMS,
  • Educational
BLOSSOMS - Arabesque: Where Art Meets Mathematics (Arabic)

Teacher: Dr. Jawad AbuhlailSummary: The main objective of this lesson is to illustrate an important application of mathematics in practical life  --  namely in art. Most of the pictures selected for this lesson are visible on the walls of Al-Hambra – ...

TIMTalks: Anjali Thakkar
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Anjali Thakkar — Conquering the Imposter Syndrome: The ...

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

TIMTalks: Closing remarks
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Closing Remarks

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

TIMTalks: Introduction from Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Opening Remarks by Chancellor Eric Grimson

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

TIMTalks: Kanjun Qiu
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Kanjun Qiu — Expanding the Culture of Computing

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

TIMTalks: Maggie Lloyd
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Maggie Lloyd — comMITment

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

TIMTalks: Noam Angrist
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Noam Angrist — Do Now

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

TIMTalks: Omar Abudayyeh
  • Student Life,
  • Event
TIMTalks: Omar Abudayyeh — Drugging the Undruggable: The Road Not Taken

TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.

Playformed
  • Community videos,
  • Feature
Playformed

How do storytelling, science and play come together? This video documents the efforts of two educators, a scientist and a performance artist, to understand how teenagers explore the world and make performances out of scientific play.

BLOSSOMS - The Disease of Our Time (English Subtitles)
  • BLOSSOMS,
  • Educational
BLOSSOMS - The Disease of Our Time (English Subtitles)

This video presents a lesson on Type 2 diabetes for high school students - what diabetes is and how it works in the human body.

BLOSSOMS - Plastics and Covalent Chemical Bonds (English ...
  • BLOSSOMS,
  • Educational
BLOSSOMS - Plastics and Covalent Chemical Bonds (English Subtitles)

In this lesson, we discuss the distribution of electrons in a carbon atom, introduce the students to examples of plastic materials made from organic compounds, explore environmentally safe materials that can mimic the same properties of plastic and explore the effects ...

Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum
  • MIT Museum,
  • Feature
Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum

A video of Clearly Impossible, an installation by Zhe Huang and Yao Zhang. The installation was originally part of a larger exhibition at the MIT Museum called Ways of Seeing. It will be up at the museum until May 25, 2012. Sponsored by Florcraft, Clearly Impossible is a MIT Museum Studio ...

Telling Stories about Technology in an Asian Century
  • Guest speakers and special events,
  • Event
Telling Stories about Technology in an Asian Century

Morison Prize LectureRecorded on 5/11/12Gregory Clancey - Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore; Master, Tembusu College Gregory Clancey is concurrently an ...

Company of the Week: Locu
  • Entrepreneurship,
  • Feature
Company of the Week: Locu

Locu is a great example of how companies are started out of the classroom; they've reached escape velocity and have great investor news.

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MIT Video contains 100-plus channels ranging from arts to OpenCourseWare and beyond. Here are some of the most recently updated selections.

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Health

Health sciences and tips on staying healthy.

20 videos

Updated May. 25, 2012

Innovation

53 videos

Updated May. 25, 2012

Mechanical engineering

Research into energy, biomechanics, nanoparticles and more.

115 videos

Updated May. 25, 2012

MIT News

News and features from the staff at MIT News.

Spotlight channel

166 videos

Updated May. 25, 2012

Industrial Liaison Program

Creating and strengthening relationships between MIT and corporations worldwide.

63 videos

Updated May. 24, 2012

Community videos

Videos produced by students, faculty, staff, and other members of the community

6,407 videos

Updated May. 24, 2012

MIT Media Lab

Envisioning the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life.

Spotlight channel

73 videos

Updated May. 24, 2012

Web technologies

Videos from MIT's WebPub and other DIY web learning sites.

84 videos

Updated May. 24, 2012

MIT+K12

The MIT-K12 project puts MIT as a publicly accessible “experiential partner” to the country’s K through 12 educators.

Spotlight channel

43 videos

Updated May. 23, 2012

School of Engineering

Electrical, computer science, biological, mechanical, materials and much more.

213 videos

Updated May. 23, 2012

Alumni

MIT alumni all over the world are accomplishing greatness. These videos show a glimpse of life after graduation.

192 videos

Updated May. 23, 2012

Guest speakers and special events

Many experts and academics visit MIT each year. This collection houses videos from those events, which has previously been featured on the MIT World ...

Spotlight channel

1,022 videos

Updated May. 15, 2012

Arts

The arts at MIT connect creative minds across disciplines and encourage a lifetime of exploration and self-discovery.

Spotlight channel

139 videos

Updated May. 15, 2012

MIT Museum

Explore invention, ideas and innovation.

Spotlight channel

45 videos

Updated May. 15, 2012

School of Architecture + Planning

How design can shape our world and quality of life.

76 videos

Updated May. 15, 2012

MIT Sloan School of Management

The Institute's business and management school

349 videos

Updated May. 15, 2012

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Music, literature, economics, philosophy and more.

70 videos

Updated May. 15, 2012

Center for International Studies

More than fifty years ago, MIT established the Center for International Studies to conduct research to help the United States in its cold war ...

70 videos

Updated May. 14, 2012

Political science

Videos about politics, elections and more.

30 videos

Updated May. 14, 2012

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