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.
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 ...
From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT ...
Discussion with panelists: Caroline Jones, Felice Frankel, Christopher Turner. Recorded on 5/22/12.
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 ...
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.
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Excerpt from an interview with Frank Adorney about U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. "Pop" Bland and the invention of a new slide rule, the Hudson 8 and the Hudson 9, prototypes of the Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon, the last major slide rule ...
Excerpt from an interview with Frank Adorney about U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. "Pop" Bland and the invention of a new slide rule, the Hudson 8 and the Hudson 9, prototypes of the Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon, the last major slide rule ...
Excerpt from an interview with Frank Adorney about U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. "Pop" Bland and the invention of a new slide rule, the Hudson 8 and the Hudson 9, prototypes of the Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon, the last major slide rule ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research by the MIT Space Policy and Society group has the possibility of shaping the most important human space policy decisions in a generation. On view in this exhibit is the space suit designed by Professor Dava Newman, as well as other ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Recorded on Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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.
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.
A small amount of water is placed inside an airtight copper tube, with the end sealed by a rubber stopper. The tube is heated using a blowtorch, causing the water inside to boil. As the water changes from a liquid to a gas the pressure inside the tube increases. Eventually the pressure blows ...
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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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