The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, ...
The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part II
Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues the discussion of transformation and subversion in 1970s films, specifically as embodied in work of director Robert Altman. Outline - Robert Altman (1925-2006) - Career - Defining qualities: - Moral ...
Introduction to Algorithms - Lecture 23: Computational ...
Introduction to Algorithms - Lecture 23: Computational Complexity
Description: This lecture introduces computational complexity, including how most decision problems are uncomputable, hardness and completeness, and reductions. Instructor: Erik Demaine
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs and Workers
Description: This lecture talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 24: Policies, ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 24: Policies, Politics: Can ...
Description: This lecture discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 25: Policies, ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 25: Policies, Politics: Can ...
Description: This lecture discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 26: Five Thoughts ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 26: Five Thoughts in Place of a ...
Description: The professor provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 15: Risk and ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 15: Risk and Insurance
This lecture discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 16: Insurance
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 16: Insurance
This lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 17: The (Not So ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 17: The (Not So Simple) Economics ...
Description: This lecture covers credit and lending to the world's poor. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 19: The Promise ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 19: The Promise and Perils of ...
Description: This lecture discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 11: Education: The ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 11: Education: The Man Made Trap
This lecture discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 3: Social ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 3: Social Experiments: Why and ...
In this lecture, Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 5: Is There a ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 5: Is There a Nutrition-Based ...
In this lecture, Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. Instructor: Esther Duflo
D-Lab: Energy - Lab 6: Charcoal Making & Stove Testing
D-Lab: Energy - Lab 6: Charcoal Making & Stove Testing
In this lab, the class does a charcoal burn from start to finish, loading the drum, lighting it, and sealing it after some of the burn. While the burn is going on, they grate yucca to make a binder and make briquettes using the contents from a previous burn. Speaker: ...
D-Lab: Energy - Lecture 7: Solar Cookers, Creative Capacity ...
D-Lab: Energy - Lecture 7: Solar Cookers, Creative Capacity Building, Trip ...
This lecture reviews solar cooker technology and a case study in D-Lab's Creative Capacity Building workshops. The session ends with final thoughts on trip preparation, including how to get good information from community partners, and how to pack. Speaker: Amy ...
D-Lab: Energy - Project Presentations 1: Trip Planning
D-Lab: Energy - Project Presentations 1: Trip Planning
This video contains three student team presentations previewing their plans for upcoming visits to Nicaragua and El Salvador community partners, and feedback from instructor Amy Banzaert about those plans. Speaker: MIT Students, Amy Banzaert
D-Lab: Energy - Project Presentations 4: Final Design Review
D-Lab: Energy - Project Presentations 4: Final Design Review
Four student teams (juice bag sealer, charcoal barrel improvement, solar charger for cell phones, rice dehusking) give final presentations and demonstrations of their projects, at the D-Lab Spring Showcase event. Speaker: MIT Students
Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes - Lecture 11: Energy ...
Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes - Lecture 11: Energy Transfer by Waves: ...
Description: The main focus is the microscopic picture of waves. This lecture discusses the energy transport by waves, by using the Maxwell's equations in different electric/magnetic fields and between different interfaces. Instructor: Prof. Gang Chen
Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes - Lecture 17: Solutions ...
Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes - Lecture 17: Solutions to Boltzmann ...
Description: Students learn to solve the Boltzmann equation in the classical limit under relaxation time approximation in this lecture. Students also learn to derive the Fourier law, Newton shear law, and the electron transport process with the Ohm's Law. Instructor: ...
Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes - Lecture 20: Classical ...
Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes - Lecture 20: Classical Size Effects, ...
Description: This lecture continues discussion on energy transport when it travels perpendicularly to a film. It also provides solving Boltzmann equation with consideration of classical size effects under circumstances of heat carriers colliding with boundaries. ...