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MIT students, administrators, and staff reflect on their Thanksgiving traditions, and what the holiday means at MIT. Happy Thanksgiving 2012!
MIT students, administrators, and staff reflect on their Thanksgiving traditions, and what the holiday means at MIT. Happy Thanksgiving 2012!
A time-lapse video showing the day of the memorial service for fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013. This video was shot from Westgate, an MIT dormitory building. See more video from around campus on the day of the memorial: ...
This video shows underground methane gas invading fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture, as predicted by Jain and Juanes' grain scale model. Blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded. The maroon lines indicate compressive forces ...
Flow visualization (color alterations of fluorescent die movie) of small size caranguiform prototype (bass), swimming frequency = 1 Hz. Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/robo-fish-0824.html
Computer model developed by Taylor Perron and colleagues shows how evenly-spaced ridges and valleys form over time as a result of erosion and the slumping of soil. Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/hills-valleys-0722.html
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/neurochemicals-0702.html
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MITs Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, unveiled its latest high-tech car on Friday, Feb. 27 in Lobby 13. The new vehicle, Eleanor, is equipped with wireless links so lead and chase vehicles will be able to monitor every aspect of the ...
In this video, flaps of a polymer sheet are folded into a corner of a cube. An external magnetic field interacts with a current flowing through wires embedded in the sheet, causing the sheets to fold up. Read the full story at ...
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. This test involved a used coke bottle. Video: Oleg V. Batishchev Read the full ...
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. (WARNING: audio is loud) Video: Oleg V. Batishchev Read the full story at ...
MIT students and residents of an orphanage in Peru work on, and try out, the bicilavadora -- a cheap, reliable washing machine powered by bicycle parts. The device can be constructed mostly using parts and tools that are readily available almost everywhere in the ...
On the sixth-floor of a building at MIT, students are busy measuring flour, melting chocolate and beating eggs. But they're not just trying to satisfy a sweet tooth -- they're doing science.
When anthropologist Stefan Helmreich decided to study scientists who chase some of the world's smallest creatures in some of the world's most forbidding places, his research took an unexpected twist. An interview with Helmreich on why the ocean can ...
Boston television journalist Liz Walker interviews President Hockfield about life at MIT for "Better Living with Liz Walker."
Video: Melanie Gonick; still images: Heather Paxon Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Anthropology, discusses what makes an artisan cheese.
Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150. Video: Melanie Gonick; Still Images: Justin Lee/Oliver Yeh
An excerpt from the clean-energy address President Obama delivered at Kresge Auditorium on Friday, October 24. Video: Melanie Gonick; Speech footage: AMPS
The sensitive instruments on the orbital Kepler Observatory show a smooth rise and fall of the light between transits caused by the changing phases of the planet, similar to those of our moon. This is a combination of both the light emitted from ...
A demonstration of the process by which a camera going out of focus can display the contents of a Bokode visual tag.
We show a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance. Current optical tags, such as barcodes, must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable ...
Through this popular annual loan program, individual students and student groups may borrow original works of art from the collection for their private rooms and communal spaces.
Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially ...
Sharmila C. Chatterjee, senior lecturer in marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to create a smart content marketing strategy.
Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to predict the popularity of a Twitter post.
Dr. Angela Belcher received the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for applying lessons in nature to design environmentally-friendly batteries, solar cells and clean transportation fuel, among other inventions.
This 30-minute documentary features the March 2012 premiere of "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," by composer Jamshied Sharifi '83.
Five graduating seniors discuss their time at MIT and what they look forward to in the future.
Robot instrument builder and MIT alum Andy Cavatorta discussed the creative process as part of CAST's 2013 "Music and Technology" seminar series. For more information: http://arts.mit.edu/cast/sss-lecturedemonstrations/
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"
On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Did you know that glaciers hold nearly two percent of Earth's water?
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.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 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 ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Showing "Herald" building, street and elevated railroad. NOTES Copyright: no reg. Camera, William Heise. Duration: 0:11 at 24 fps. MAVIS 214311. Filmed May 11, ...
OTHER TITLES Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Paterson Falls CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A beautiful picture of the falls of the Passaic River, near Paterson, N.J. NOTES Copyright: no ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1902. SUMMARY As early as 1874, passenger balloon flights were being made over San Francisco. San Franciscans - and Americans in general - were fascinated with the thrills and dangers of flight. Although ...
Photos of 2013 MechE grad students
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Bob Wurtz of the NIH presents his talk, entitled "Adding corollary discharge to motor computations for action ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University presents his talk, entitled "Motor cortical control and prostheses: a ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Tamar Flash of the Weizmann Institute presents her talk, entitled "Geometry, time and compositionality in ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Larry Abbott of Columbia University presents his talk, entitled "Network Models of Motor Cortex."
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Moshe Abeles of Bar-Ilan University presents his talk, entitled "Detecting the dynamics of binding amongst ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern University presents his talk, entitled "Geometrical aspects of modularity ...
Tom Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series - April 11, 2013
The Chandra Astrophysics Institute is an opportunity for students in grades 9-11 from a wide range of academic backgrounds to train for and undertake astronomy projects. The students are mentored by MIT scientists and use observations from the Chandra X-Ray space ...
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