New Year's Resolutions: Have You Kept Yours?

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:31:21 GMT

Joshua Ackerman, an assistant professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses New Year's resolutions and how many of them are prone to failure because they are lifestyle changes and not actual goals.

Matthew Hutson: The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:30:11 GMT

Matthew Hutson's talk on his book "The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep us Happy, Healthy, and Sane" at MIT May 14, 2012. Introduction by Alan Lightman.

Read more about Matthew Hutson on the Graduate Program in Science Writing's website: http://sciwrite.mit.edu/news/spotlight-on-matt-hutson-03

Consciousness

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:28 GMT

Stress

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:28 GMT

Emotion & Motivation

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:27 GMT

Memory II: Amnesia and Memory Systems

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:27 GMT

Personality

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:27 GMT

Introduction

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:26 GMT

Science & Research

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:26 GMT

Vision II

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:26 GMT

Social Psychology I

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:25 GMT

Social Psychology II

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:25 GMT

Adult Development

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:24 GMT

Child Development

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:24 GMT

Language

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:23 GMT

Memory I

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:23 GMT

Thinking

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:23 GMT

Learning

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:22 GMT

Vision I

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:22 GMT

Conclusions: Evolutionary Psychology, Happiness

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:21 GMT

Psychopathology I

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:21 GMT

Psychopathology II

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:21 GMT

Attention

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:20 GMT

Brain II: Methods of Research

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:20 GMT

Intelligence

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:20 GMT

Brain I: Structure and Functions

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:19 GMT

Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Ben Rubin

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Rubin describes his work at EmTech 2011: Letting consumers analyze their sleep Zeo In college at Brown University, Ben Rubin had an odd nighttime ritual. He would hook himself up to an old polysomnography machine, a refrigerator-size device that clinics use to diagnose sleep disorders. He wanted to create a wearable alarm clock that would measure brain activity and wake the user in an optimal phase of light sleep. Before he graduated, Rubin cofounded a company called Zeo, and in 2009 it began selling the first consumer device that detects the user's phase of sleep. Read more: http://techre.vu/w5tW71

Hologram Method Used to Study Neurons

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Pierre Magistretti of the Brain Mind Institute at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne explains how holographic microscopy works.

Analyzing Your Sleep

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Ben Rubin, co-founder and CTO of Zeo and part of the 2011 TR35, has developed a consumer device that detects the user's phase of sleep.

The Good Side of Nightmares

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:52:10 GMT

The average person dreams several hundred times a week. Most are about relatives, friends, colleagues and loved ones. Most of the time, nothing special happens - and we tend to forget most dreams. However, once in a while people wake up screaming or sweating from dreams so frightening that they can't be forgotten. While no one likes such nightmares, reporter Wojciech (Voytek) Mikoluszko reports on why it they aren't necessarily a bad thing. The songs are performed by Irena Mikoluszko.

A Sleep-Monitoring Shirt

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Carson Darling and Thomas Lipoma, who cofounded Nyx Devices with Pablo Bello, and neurologist Matt Bianchi, demonstrate the Somnus sleep shirt. The nightshirt is embedded with fabric electronics to monitor the wearer's breathing patterns. A small chip worn in a pocket of the shirt processes that data to determine phase of sleep, such as REM sleep (when we dream), light sleep or deep sleep.

The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:00:00 GMT

03/28/2011 9:00 AM KresgeNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: It's difficult to imagine that at one point in her career, National Academy of Science member Nancy Hopkins thought to quit. In her talk, she relates the historical challenges facing women in science and engineering at MIT, the university's responses to these problems, and how in the end Hopkins avoided becoming a poster child of the 'leaky pipeline' -- a term of art for the high rate of attrition among talented women in engineering and science academia. Hopkins weaves together a personal tale with the larger story of gender discrimination in U.S. academia. She first captures a century of women at MIT, from the handful of female admissions starting in the late 19th century, to the current numbers: 45% of all undergraduates, 29% of graduate students and 17% of the faculty. However, there were no women science or engineering faculty in the first 100 years. During this period, the exclusion of top"notch women researchers from major academic posts was common, says Hopkins, a reflection of the fact that "societal beliefs can overpower merit." A major turning point arrived in the 1960s and 1970s, when the civil rights and women's movements flung open workplace doors to women. But Hopkins notes that even after passage of laws against overt job discrimination, obstacles emerged to the advancement of women scientists and engineers, "unanticipated and largely invisiblealmost as effective at excluding women as the fact they couldn't get a job at all." There was sexual harassment, which "made it impossible for women to be equal in the workplace." Hopkins recalls in her undergraduate days grossly inappropriate behavior toward her by a Nobel Prize"winning biologist in a Harvard lab, but "didn't grasp until years later that a man who treats a student that way may not be genuinely interested in her lab notes." Mentors who could smooth the way to the next career step were few and far between for women students and young faculty. And unlike men, women have to choose between children or career. Hopkins says "women in my generation instinctively never talked about pregnancy or children at workYou wanted to make sure people knew you wanted to be a nun of science, and in fact personally, I was." Hopkins cites as well "unconscious gender bias," where women's research appeared to colleagues of both genders less valuable than identical research by a man, and accompanying marginalization in university departments. Up against these problems, who could blame women for departing their professions, asks Hopkins. At MIT, serious relief arrived in 1994, after Hopkins, demoralized after trying in vain to obtain more lab space for her zebrafish experiments, found similarly unhappy women colleagues who banded together to press for institutional solutions. Hopkins literally went about measuring lab space and provided hard data about gender bias to then MIT President Charles Vest, as evidence that women had less space available to conduct their research. (This "tape measure" turning point has earned Hopkins an unintended place in MIT history, while the tape measure itself is on display at the MIT Museum.) In stages, over the subsequent years, MIT began intensively recruiting women scientists and engineers for its faculty; creating new family leave policies; and placing women in top administrative roles, among a number of remedies. 19% of science faculty are now women, and surveys show a much higher level of satisfaction among this group. But Hopkins says the job is not yet finished: Women at MIT, from students to faculty, report "the perception that when women advance, it is due to the lowering of standards." The leaky pipeline won't be fixed until "this insidious belief that women are less good than men" vanishes within MIT and society at large. http://museum.mit.edu/150/71 About the Speaker(s): Nancy Hopkins earned widespread recognition for cloning vertebrate developmental genes. Using a technique called insertional mutagenesis -- designed for such invertebrate animals as the fruit fly -- Hopkins's laboratory has cloned hundreds of genes that play a role in creating a viable fish embryo. Hopkins' research earned her 1998 election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999 election to the Institute of Medicine and 2004 election to the National Academy of Sciences. She speaks frequently about gender equity issues in science. Hopkins obtained a B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1964 and a Ph.D. from the department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Harvard University in 1971. Host(s): Office of the President, MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

An On-Off Switch for Anxiety

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:00:00 GMT

In this video, a mouse with a fiberoptic cable implanted into his brain explores a four-arm maze. The animal has been genetically engineered to express light-sensitive proteins in a specific part of the amygdala, a brain region linked to fear. Mice are naturally afraid of open spaces, and at the beginning of the video, the mouse spends most of his time in one corner of the maze, occasionally dashing out to explore his environment. Turning on the light (as indicated by blue text) activates a specific neural circuit, which appears to make the mouse much braver, continually exploring all the parts of the maze. The video is shown at ten times normal speed.

Humanities in the Digital Age

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.

Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.

Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT

04/24/2009 6:00 PM Simmons HallCarol Gilligan, University Professor, New York University School of LawDescription: In this complex narrative documenting paradigm shifts in developmental thinking, Carol Gilligan defines the very capacity of our human nature-to have a voice and to communicate-as the grounds of both love and democratic citizenship. Dissecting the roots of healthy ethical resistance, Gilligan weaves together developmental psychology, neurobiology, ethics, and politics in ethical and moral decisions. Gilligan provides an overview of the evolution of her research and thinking about gender as they relate to ethics. She recounts in her early research that she was initially blind to gender issues. These issues became strikingly clear to her after completing one study with men about their moral dilemmas relating to the Vietnam War and the draft, versus a group of women faced with the moral choice to continue to terminate a pregnancy. Though this experience she realized that all previous studies of moral and psychological development had been based on men only. This insight set off a body of research and publication that focuses on the traditional gender splits of thought verses emotion, self verses relationships and mind verses body, and the harm to both genders to operate soley within these separate and restrictive arenas. From gender, Gilligan goes onto to study patriarchy, and looks into the societal issues on how the masculine qualities of thought, self and body have been elevated while emotion, relationships and body have been devalued, causing the psychological community to conclude that patriarchy is the natural state. Reflecting with great relief that "we now have a map," she looks at current political landscape offers insights into the election of Barack Obama and what it says about how our political landscape is changing. "We are born with a voice and into relationship, and if those capacities are encouraged, not traumatized, then we are able to register within ourselves the feeling of what happens, and that's the grounds, the growing consensus, for ethical action, to be in touch in that sense". About the Speaker(s): Carol Gilligan is an ethicist and psychologist currently appointed as a University Professor at the New York University. She received an A.B. in English literature from Swarthmore College, a masters degree in clinical psychology from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Her landmark book, In A Different Voice (1982) is described by Harvard University Press as "the little book that started a revolution." Following In A Different Voice, she initiated the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and co"authored or edited 5 books with her students: Mapping the Moral Domain (1988), Making Connections (1990), Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991), Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, (1992) and Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships (1995). She received a Senior Research Scholar award from the Spencer Foundation, a Grawemeyer Award for her contributions to education, a Heinz Award for her contributions to understanding the human condition and was named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans. Her more recent publications include The Birth of Pleasure: a New Map of Love (2002), Kyra: A Novel (2008), and, with David A. J. Richards, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (2009). Host(s): Dean for Student Life, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values

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Memory II: Amnesia and Memory Systems

Personality

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Science & Research

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Conclusions: Evolutionary Psychology, Happiness

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