From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

A few hundred years after the Enlightenment, western civilization is rushing back to the Dark Ages. The causes are debatable, but, argue these science journalists, the public increasingly rejects the findings of science, from climate change to evolution, and is turning away from rationality and ...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT’s culture, his new life at USC, and the state of digital cultures, new media and collective intelligence. Jenkins shares that complex feeling of loving and hating MIT,...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

Otto Scharmer describes his theory of capitalism 3.0. More details about the lecture coming soon.

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

In this talk Andrew Lo addresses the problem of finding the right level of abstraction with which to think about economic phenomena. He compares economics to physics, with some surprising results. For at least several decades economics theorists have assumed that the highest level of ab...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

Antoinette Schoar analyses how general economic conditions affect the CEO career path. More details about the lecture coming soon.

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of MIT entrepreneurship to larger communities. Much of the research under discussion comes from a 2006 study of MIT alumni conducted by Roberts and Charles Eesley of the Sloan School. The study polled MIT alum...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

In the first of four panels celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT, panelists reflect on the wide range of projects and media studies offspring that have emerged from this innovative program. Major CMS themes include the development of com...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold. Encouraged by Australian physician, Helen Caldicott, who spoke of the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle and of nuclear power, in particular, he decided to restart an...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

In a lecture that could have been titled, Better Education through Chemistry, Don Sadoway begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education innovation, sharing creative ways to teach chemistry. Calling 3.091 a chemistry-centered class or C...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT Alumni gathered in Kresge for the annual Technology Day event. ...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

Jack Szostak started his first lab as a “freshly minted assistant professor” working in DNA recombination and repair reactions. While researchers had known for years that the broken ends of DNA strands behaved differently from broken DNA in the middle of the strand, they did not know the details...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year. But after only six weeks into his first class with professor Cy Leventhal, he realized this was the field for him. He boldly asked for a recommendation as part of his application to grad school—in bio...

From: MIT World on Fri, Jul 30 2010 3:38 PM

As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year. But after only six weeks into his first class with professor Cy Leventhal, he realized this was the field for him. He boldly asked for a recommendation as part of his application to grad school—in bio...

From: MIT World on Tue, Jul 13 2010 3:07 PM

Jack Szostak started his first lab as a “freshly minted assistant professor” working in DNA recombination and repair reactions. While researchers had known for years that the broken ends of DNA strands behaved differently from broken DNA in the middle of the strand, they did not know the details...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jul 12 2010 5:03 PM

In a lecture that could have been titled, Better Education through Chemistry, Don Sadoway begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education innovation, sharing creative ways to teach chemistry. Calling 3.091 a chemistry-centered class or C...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jul 12 2010 4:02 PM

Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT Alumni gathered in Kresge for the annual Technology Day event. ...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jul 05 2010 12:33 PM

In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold. Encouraged by Australian physician, Helen Caldicott, who spoke of the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle and of nuclear power, in particular, he decided to restart an...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jun 28 2010 3:53 PM

C. Otto Scharmer points to what he calls a "blind spot" in contemporary leadership research: the organization and management of attention. He argues that there are different kinds of awareness or attentiveness, that different problems require different qualities of or approaches to awareness. Le...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jun 28 2010 3:53 PM

In this talk Andrew Lo addresses the problem of finding the right level of abstraction with which to think about economic phenomena. He compares economics to physics, with some surprising results. For at least several decades economics theorists have assumed that the highest level of ab...

From: MIT World on Mon, Jun 28 2010 2:52 PM

Antoinette Schoar analyses how general economic conditions affect the CEO career path. More details about the lecture coming soon.