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Part of the "Common Threads" video, produced for the MIT 150th celebration, this clip features the vital role of humanities, arts, and social sciences at MIT.
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max ...
The contemporary video core of Berliner sehen consists of 18 hours of natural conversations with Berlin residents from different social backgrounds. Spoken in authentic German, they acquaint students with the many facets of individual lives. Together with the extensive archive of texts, ...
Genius (Students) + Ingenious (Curriculum) = Extraordinary Learning @ MITStudents and professors talk about innovation and creativity in teaching and learning at MIT. See four examples: The hands-on Hydrodynamics Lab, HASS subject: "Learning From the Past: Drama, Science, Performance" ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.
Before buying your next chocolate bar or sweatshirt, bear in mind its potential hidden cost: the forced labor of an impoverished worker.
Zeinab Badawi, Presenter, The World, BBC Four; Jean-Robert Cadet, Author, Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American; Steven Law, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor; Kevin Bales, Director, Free the Slaves, Inc.; Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey Roehampton, ...
Video games could transform the world some day, if only their potential could be fully realized.
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government openness and digital connectedness?
Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, at the University of Alcala in Spain delivering a talk entitled "The Samba School Revisited: Play, Performance, and Participation in Education."Read more on his blog: ...
Location-based services and context-aware technologies are altering the way we encounter our environments and producing enormous volumes of data about where we go, what we do, and how we live and interact. How are these changes transforming the ways we engage with our ...
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.
Grant McCracken (author of Chief Culture Officer; Culturematic)
Writer Joe Haldeman talks about his creative process.
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
