What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
11/15/2005 5:00 PM Kirsch 32-123Rosalind H. Williams, HM, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology; David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; David S. Jones, ...
Tracking Creeping Plates from Space
Tracking Creeping Plates from Space
Mike Floyd, a postdoc in the Department of Earth, Atmopheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, uses GPS to track the vanishingly slow, yet inexorable movement of the tectonic plates underlying the Caucasus. In this video he shares work he and co-workers recently published showing ...
The ‘New Seed': Babadoru 5-chome project
The ‘New Seed': Babadoru 5-chome project
This video captures the story of the Babadoru 5-chome community and the shelter designed for them by the Japan 3/11 Initiative team
TalkBack 360: Science on Trial
TalkBack 360: Science on Trial
Rebuilding Credibility in the Face of Natural Disaster : After the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake struck the Italian region of Abruzzo, killing more than 300 people, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter. Nearly three years later, the city is still rebuilding. In this event ...
Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the ...
Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of ...
03/18/2002, 5:30, 10-485 Diane E. Davis In this lecture, Diane Davis examines the impact of Mexico City's 1985 disastrous earthquake on the social, spatial, and political character of Mexico's capital city. Davis discusses the earthquake's implications for social ...
MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
The MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative is MIT’s response to the March 2011 triple disaster in Japan.
Japan's Nuclear Crisis
Japan's Nuclear Crisis
03/16/2011 5:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT"CIS Program on Political Economy ...
Government Perspectives on Engineering Systems
Government Perspectives on Engineering Systems
03/29/2004 1:30 PM Wong AuditoriumGranger Morgan, Lord University Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy; Carnegie Mellon University ; ; Mortimer Downey, President of PB Consult ; Joseph Bordogna, SM '60, Deputy Director, National Science ...
From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy ...
From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy Challenges
Oxfam's Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will ultimately be "crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and rehabilitation by the Haitian people and for the Haitian nation-distributed leadership.
Fast Processes
Fast Processes
The Earth is over 4 billion years old, but the surface is much younger. How is this possible? Volcanoes, landslides and earthquakes. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-conditions
Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History
Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History
05/01/2009 2:00 PM Bartos theaterJohn Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of ArchitectureDescription: John Ochsendorf, a structural engineer, "fell in love with archaeology" during college. His senior thesis at Cornell involved a 600"year"old Incan suspension ...
BLOSSOMS - Can Earthquakes Be Predicted?
BLOSSOMS - Can Earthquakes Be Predicted?
This video module uses a simple analog setup to explore why earthquakes are so unpredictable. The setup is simple enough that students should be able to assemble and operate the setup on their own with teacher supervision. It is important to note that students should be familiar with the ...