Visualizing Science: Through The Lens

Discussion with panelists: Caroline Jones, Felice Frankel, Christopher Turner. Recorded on 5/22/12.

The Subminiature Vacuum Tube: The Cycle of Technology

A short documentary of the history of the subminiature vacuum tube. This 16 minute film was produced by the MIT Museum with funding from Raytheon in 1986 for the MIT Industrial Liaison Program. The producer and director was Seichi Tsutsumi of the MIT Industrial Liaison ...

The Paradiso Synthesizer

MIT Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso's homemade analog synthesizer, probably the world's largest, is on display at the MIT Museum and streaming online.

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 ...

Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese

Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Anthropology Program, studies the people and culture behind the renaissance of artisanal cheese making in the United States.

MIT News at Noon: Devavrat Shah on Twitter trends

Shah discussed how he uses his machine-learning algorithm to predict trends hours in advance of recognition by Twitter.

MIT News at Noon with Missy Cummings

Aeronautics and astronautics professor discusses how boredom plays a major role in a drone-operators ability to do their job.

MIT Museum Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic Ice

April 17, 2012 Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic IceExplore the Arctic ice cap with photographer Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist John Toole, and MIT oceanographer Patrick Heimbach. See stunning images from ...

MIT Museum Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: All In Your Head

How do humans recognize and remember images? Can these processes be artificially created? Join MIT professors Aude Oliva, James Di Carlo, and Antonio Torralba in a conversation about the intersection of vision and cognition in humans and machines.

Life in the Universe: Why Mars Matters

Life in the Universe: Finding Intelligence

Recorded on 11/29/11

History of the Hudson 8/9 Slide Rule - MIT Museum

Full interview with Frank Adorney about the conception, development and fabrication of the Hudson 8 and Hudson 9 slide rule.  This rule, invented by James R. "Pop" Bland, a mathematics professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, was the prototype for the famous Keuffel ...

Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel

Panel Discussion: The Science of IllusionWednesday, April 25, 2012Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Science Festival Can you imagine the science behind an invisibility cloak? What about a hovering hologram? The Science of Illusion pushes beyond the boundaries of the real and provides ...

Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between Genetics and ...

Researchers at MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences probe the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of illnesses such as lung cancer. A video produced by AMPS/MIT Libraries for the MIT Museum's classroom/exhibit, "Learning Lab: The ...

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 ...