From: MIT World on Mon, Mar 08 2010 12:28 PM

In urging the MIT community to use its gifts to help others in need, particularly, the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, Dylon Rockwell recalls his mother's quest to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. With vivid memories of hundreds of New Orleans residents arriving in his hometown of ...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:06 PM

It’s no exaggeration to say John Holdren’s job involves tackling the most critical issues of our age: economic recovery and growth, health care, energy, climate change, global pandemics, national security, ecosystem preservation the list goes on. As President Obama’s science and technology advis...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:06 PM

In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of the flu virus" discussing not only how viruses work to invade our systems and cause the flu, but also adding insights into the political and societal framework in which public health groups and governm...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:06 PM

In a mind-stretching talk covering the history of the planet, development of higher-order consciousness, and East-West religious practices, Trappist monk Thomas Keating claims that humanity is poised to take its next evolutionary step, to the “furthest levels of human understanding.” While Keat...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:06 PM

Years of extreme partisanship and lobbying have left Americans cynical and bewildered about health care reform, but, say these panelists, the urgency of achieving some measure of change is not diminished, both for American families and the nation as a whole. The sad truth is that the problem may...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:06 PM

The U.S. has had more than 70 years to come to terms with the Great Depression, and we really thought we knew how to avoid another one, says Paul Krugman. “It wasn’t supposed to be possible. Then came the current crisis.” So how to explain the Great Recession of 2008? Krugman suggests a combinat...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:05 PM

“Punch brothers! Punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!...” This ditty about tram car ticketing made famous by Mark Twain might spring to mind during Nigel Wilson’s talk. Technology unimaginable in Twain’s day is spurring a global shift in urban transit, Wilson says, from manu...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:05 PM

Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists discuss the field’s colorful history, current decline, and possibly vibrant future. Arts criticism wen...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:05 PM

Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds’ growing population. Imagine a projected population of nine billion individuals. If this future population had mobility patterns like drivers in the United States, there would be a staggering 7.6 billion motor vehi...

From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 04 2010 3:04 PM

Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds’ growing population. Imagine a projected population of nine billion individuals. If this future population had mobility patterns like drivers in the United States, there would be a staggering 7.6 billion motor vehi...

From: MIT World on Wed, Mar 03 2010 2:58 PM

Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists discuss the field’s colorful history, current decline, and possibly vibrant future. Arts criticism wen...

From: MIT World on Mon, Feb 22 2010 4:47 PM

Road traffic is a challenging societal problem, and with the increasing crowding of areas in and around cities, it is only becoming worse. With the proliferation of wireless connectivity, smartphones (think cheap embedded computers), it is now possible to continuously monitor urban areas using m...

From: MIT World on Fri, Feb 19 2010 4:32 PM

“Punch brothers! Punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!...” This ditty about tram car ticketing made famous by Mark Twain might spring to mind during Nigel Wilson’s talk. Technology unimaginable in Twain’s day is spurring a global shift in urban transit, Wilson says, from manu...

From: MIT World on Fri, Feb 19 2010 12:46 AM

Based on this roster of speakers, the MIT Center for Future Civic Media exists in a constant state of productive ferment, if not adrenaline rush. In a series of brief, timed talks, 13 (!) researchers describe projects to help communities leverage self-knowledge into useful change or even transfo...

From: MIT World on Fri, Jan 29 2010 6:36 PM

Years of extreme partisanship and lobbying have left Americans cynical and bewildered about health care reform, but, say these panelists, the urgency of achieving some measure of change is not diminished, both for American families and the nation as a whole. The sad truth is that the problem may...

From: MIT World on Sun, Jan 24 2010 6:32 PM

In thirty years, S. D. Shibulal has seen his share of economic crises, three to be exact. But in thinking hard about the role of crises in the future for today's students, he predicts: they will occur more frequently, and will be less predictable, longer lasting and more costly. Wi...

From: MIT World on Fri, Jan 08 2010 10:18 AM

It’s no exaggeration to say John Holdren’s job involves tackling the most critical issues of our age: economic recovery and growth, health care, energy, climate change, global pandemics, national security, ecosystem preservation the list goes on. As President Obama’s science and technology advis...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jan 04 2010 12:25 PM

In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of the flu virus" discussing not only how viruses work to invade our systems and cause the flu, but also adding insights into the political and societal framework in which public health groups and governm...

From: MIT World on Sat, Dec 26 2009 5:36 PM

Like tuning in a station on the FM band of a radio, neuroscientists can detect the particular frequencies of our brains in action. And just as on the radio, a little noise and static is to be expected. In Parkinson’s Disease (PD), as Peter Brown and colleagues are finding, too much of a certain ...

From: MIT World on Sat, Dec 26 2009 5:36 PM

In a lively discussion with Simon Johnson, Lawrence Fish deconstructs the near collapse of the banking system and points out the multiple factors that have contributed to the financial crisis. Topics in the discussion include the banks that did not fail, how Canadian and other countries...