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The Future of Science Journalism Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Susan Hockfield states that science journalism “is now, and in the decades ahead, absolutely indispensable.” As we confront global warming and hea...

Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 John Ochsendorf, a structural engineer, “fell in love with archaeology” during college. His senior thesis at Cornell involved a 600-year-old Incan...

Next Generation Solar Cells: Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 According to Tonio Buonassisi, we’re “on the cusp” of achieving a competitive technology for capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi...

Composing a Career and Life Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Linda Mason was originally going to make a case study of Bright Horizons, her $1.3 billion, early childhood care business, but reconsidered in lig...

Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 How much energy does it take to turn on a lightbulb? Way too much in the U.S., where 22% of all electricity gets channeled into illuminating homes...

Media in Transition 6: Summary Perspectives Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future sym...

Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, but the big barrier to the dissemination of solar power in soc...

The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World’s Brains on your Innovation Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Cooperation may be making us “a little bit too nice” when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there’s nothing like competi...

Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Contrary to popular thinking, China owes its astonishing economic expansion not to far-sighted government policy but to hundreds of millions of en...

Opening the Mind’s Eye- Learning to See Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 It’s rare to find research that simultaneously advances basic science and brings good into people’s lives, but Pawan Sinha’s Project Prakash does ...

Opening the Mind’s Eye- Learning to See Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: July 31, 2009 It’s rare to find research that simultaneously advances basic science and brings good into people’s lives, but Pawan Sinha’s Project Prakash does ...

Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: July 24, 2009 Contrary to popular thinking, China owes its astonishing economic expansion not to far-sighted government policy but to hundreds of millions of en...

Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: July 11, 2009 How much energy does it take to turn on a lightbulb? Way too much in the U.S., where 22% of all electricity gets channeled into illuminating homes...

Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: July 08, 2009 How much energy does it take to turn on a lightbulb? Way too much in the U.S., where 22% of all electricity gets channeled into illuminating homes...

Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: July 04, 2009 Climate change poses perhaps the premiere threat to coming generations, says Martin Madaus, but to avoid its worst impacts, we must confront the i...

China's Development and China-U.S. Relations Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 27, 2009 MIT President Susan Hockfield hails a new era of collaboration between the Institute and China, and Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador Extraordinary and Pl...

Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 09, 2009 In their symposium introduction, Susan Hockfield and Mriganka Sur place MIT at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. Hockfield, a neurosc...

The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 07, 2009 Sometime around 100 million years ago, when the continents of Africa and South America were still in touch, a female primate — one of ou...

Global Media Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 07, 2009 Just as digital technology has expanded the means of producing media, so has it increased the geographic range new media may travel. Locally gener...

The Future of Computing Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 07, 2009 Wielding numerous analogies for his audience of MIT students, Anant Agarwal makes the case that the next generation of computers, not to mention m...

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