Video by: Lan Li This exercise on direct cinema counterpoints two styles of performance: Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek lecturing on quantum physics and his student, second year graduate student in theoretical physics, Timothy Hsieh playing Bach's Chaconne. The juxtaposition ...
September 23, 2011 Video shot by: Lan Li and Nathan Kipniss Edited by: Lan Li
Video by: Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski A simple question prompts a twelve-year-old to begin building her own airplane.
Video by: TyShaun Wynter What is "Hacking" at MIT?... and who are the Hackers?
Video by: Canay Ozden In Gyumri, Armenia, puppets and people create a world of colors, ingenuity, and values; every day and all in the same building.
Kyle Machulis liberates data from self-tracking devices.
Video by: Jessica Perez Do-it-Yourself Biology is an innovative group dedicated to creating open source tools that allow anyone to perform sophisticated biological analyses. They meet regularly at SPROUT, a non-profit located in Somerville, MA with a broader mission to ...
Video by: Caterina Scaramelli Water in the Mystic Watershed runs through a rich urban fabric of densely populated towns, and picks up different pollutants on the way. Every month, at dawn, a group of "Citizen scientists", residents committed to the vision of a liveable ...
Video by: Tom Schilling Learning to make scientific images with the atomic force microscope (AFM) can be one of the most exciting aspects of becoming a full-time researcher. The pressure to work independently, get results, interpret visual data, and make new claims, ...
Video by: Emily Wanderer This short film documents the Topsfield Fair, the longest running agricultural fair in the U.S. Following farmers and hobbyists as they show their livestock and compete for prizes, the film explores the changing relationships between people, ...
Video by: Melissa Edoh Manufactured in Europe for West African markets since the 19th century, wax-print cloth has since become a key element of the West African cultural heritage. "A Piece of Home" offers a glimpse into this fabric and the meanings it holds across ...
DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media. (21A.339J/ STS.064J), spring 2011 schedule: Lec: W 7-10pm, Lab: F 10-1pm, 16-220
Observing a 30-year tradition (with a few modifications), MIT Students commemorate Drop Day by pushing an upright piano off the roof of Baker House.
Video by: Melissa Edoh "Direct Cinema" exercise: A sneak peek into a typical rehearsal of Rambax, MIT's Senegalese Drumming Ensemble.
Video by: Canay Ozden Prostheses are critical body extensions. They should naturally fit the body, lend themselves to customization, and be affordable, none of which are provided by today's industry. Nadya Peek, of MIT's "Fab Lab," takes us on a short tour of the world of ...
Video by: Alice Lee Wellesley College students and faculty redefine what a garden is, by creating an "edible forest."
Video by: Melissa Edoh Lately, seeing flyers about technology-oriented development projects targeting Africa around MIT has had me reflecting on the history of "technology transfer" in Africa; mainly because the language of international development often sounds to me like ...
Technology & Culture Forum - Privacy Reconsidered in the Age of Facebook
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.
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.
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.
On April 24, 2013 in Briggs Field, thousands of law enforcement officials joined the MIT community in honoring fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.
After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Natural selection at work.
An interesting feature on the MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics by LaInformacion.com.
An undergraduate helps MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science Department find a cure for Huntington's disease.
An MIT undergraduate models a new class of material: the photonic crystal.
Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).
MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
What makes a glow stick glow?
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
Now in its 75th year, we take a look back how the Hobby Shop began, and how it evolved to what it is today.
A brief discussion by César Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.
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Presentation by Ken Gagne, web producer at MIT Medical, on the basics of podcasting. This presentation was hosted by the Social Media Working Group and Communication Production Services in May 2013.
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