Spider silk makes music
Spider silk makes music
An ear for music, it turns out, might be a key to making structural improvements in synthetic materials.
Light-activated skeletal muscles
Light-activated skeletal muscles
Scientists at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are taking more than inspiration from nature — they’re taking ingredients.
Robot building and barefoot running
Robot building and barefoot running with Russ Tedrake
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
Soft autonomous earthworm robot
Soft autonomous earthworm robot
Researchers have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm.
Managing Resource — Constrained Supply Chains
Crossroads 2012: Managing Resource — Constrained Supply Chains
Dr. Randy Kirchain, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Material Systems Lab (MIT MSL)MIT MSL is working with industry to identify the materials supply constraints and price fluctuations that could impact the future viability of businesses. Dr. Kirchain will explain how ...
Megacities and Sustainability
Crossroads 2012: Megacities and Sustainability
Megacities — cities with a population of at least 10 million people — are growing in size and number, and are expected to account for about 20 percent of world GDP within a decade.
Mining Digital Data for Actionable Strategies
Crossroads 2012: Mining Digital Data for Actionable Strategies
Both the number and range of electronic data sources available to businesses are increasing at a phenomenal rate.
Talent Management That Supports Global Growth
Crossroads 2012: Talent Management That Supports Global Growth
Doug Cooper shares some of the challenges and solutions for managing global supply chain talent, with a special focus on overseas assignments.
Welcome & Overview
Crossroads 2012: Welcome & Overview
Jim Rice, MIT CTLCrossroads 2012: Supply Chains in Transition: The Driving Forces of ChangeJune 28, 2012 - 08:00am - 05:00pm EDTStata Center (Building 32-123)The growth of megacities, projected shortages of vital human and natural resources, and a dramatic increase in the amount of market data ...
Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary ...
Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction
Topics: Dualism and personality in post-evolutionary fiction - The rise of modernism - The emergence of the "unconscious" underground - Victorian literary wanderer, world adventurer and man of letters - Victorian degeneration theory Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final ...
Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia
Topics: H. G. Wells The Time Machine and the final utopia - Naturalistic and Evolutionary model of the human condition - Time Machine Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
Topics: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's Erewhon - Utopian literary tradition - Technological utopianism - Utopias and the satirical tradition - Eugenical thought - Victorian England - Musical banks - Mid-Victorian religion - Satire Instructor: Prof. James ...
Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea ...
Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy
Topics: Adam Smith Wealth of Nations (1776): The idea of an Oeconomy - The idea of an Oeconomy - The division of labor - Specialization - Autonomy - Intentionality - Self-Interest - Rise of towns Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
Topics: Malthus and the Compound Interest World - Worldometer - Human mind - Fixed laws of nature - Population growth - Instinct versus reason - Struggle for existence - Malthus's theory of growth - Variable rate compounding Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
Topics: Malthus and the Compound Mind - Collective irrationality and the French Revolution - Darwin's voyage Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
Topics: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World - Franz Gall - Luigi Galvani - Overproduction - Imperfect Adaptation - Charles Lyell - Geologic Time - Geology Principles - Faunal Succession - Fossils - Science in the 19th Century - Variation - Selection Instructor: ...
Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. ...
Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based ...
Topics: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion - Natural vs. revealed religion - The three discussants - Demea, Cleanthes, Philo Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
Topics: Philo and the Limits of Analogy - Self-organized matter - Unnecessary complexity - The vegetative universe - Parsimony in the natural world - The oeconomy of a world - Four circumstances of evil Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
Topics: William Paley and his Legacy - Natural theology - Intelligent design - Argument - Naturalization of the body - Anatomy in the history of art and medicine - William Harvey - Gray's anatomy - Cuvierian comparative anatomy - Great chain of Being Instructor: Prof. James Paradis
Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland
Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland
Topics: Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll's non-Newtonian World of Nonsense - A Mad Tea Party - Alice Liddell - Rules, Identity, Metamorphosis in Alice in Wonderland Instructor: Prof. James Paradis