3-D printing with variable densities
MIT Media Lab researchers Steven Keating and Neri Oxman demonstrate some of their work around 3-D printing.
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Melanie Gonick
MIT Media Lab researchers Steven Keating and Neri Oxman demonstrate some of their work around 3-D printing.
Melanie Gonick
On the intersection of her personal and professional lives
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Associate professor of anthropology Heather Paxson, shares a little bit about herself in this short video.
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A look at MIT's 145th Commencement from a different perspective.
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Five graduating seniors discuss their time at MIT and what they look forward to in the future.
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Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomksy, MIT Professor of Linguistics; Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran"
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Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
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Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
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Richard M. Locke is deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the MIT Department of Political Science
Recorded on June 6, 2013
Bicycle trick riding, no. 2 / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899. SUMMARY Opens with a man riding a bicycle in a backwards circle, on a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street. He dismounts, then remounts the ...
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Photos of 2013 MechE grad students
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