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The Impact of New Media on the Election Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 22, 2009 New technology may have permanently changed U.S. politics and campaigning. These panelists, who have both observed and driven this change, attest ...

A Few Things Learned from Craigslist Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 18, 2009 In his unassuming way, Craig Newmark believes his eponymous website might just help nudge people toward greater civic engagement. While Craigslist...

Technologies Changing Communities, Communities Innovating Technology Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 13, 2009 The best way to help a community help itself, say Dayna Cunningham and Alexa Mills, is to enable its members to find their voices and talk to each...

The Inner History of Devices Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 12, 2009 Contemporary science has done a great disservice to Sigmund Freud, suggests Sherry Turkle, who believes the psychoanalytic tradition can teach us ...

George Soros on The New Paradigm for Financial Markets Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 09, 2009 George Soros extends his “theory of reflexivity” from abstraction to application in the realm of investing. His book, The New Paradigm for Financi...

The Electoral College Experts Debate and Audience Dialogue (Part 4) Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 05, 2009 Much like our divided country, each side of this debate strains to comprehend the perspective of the other, together reaching no consensus on the ...

Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next U.S. Administration Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: January 05, 2009 “I’ve drunk kava in the South Pacific and rubbed noses with natives,” says William Fallon. “I’ve enjoyed tender baby camel as a delicacy. I’ve met ...

The Electoral College: Its Logical Foundations and Problems What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a President? (Part 1) Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2008 Give a hearty cheer for the Electoral College, and for the Founding Fathers, whose good sense (and good luck), say these panelists, have led to a ...

Health Care Policy and the Next U.S. Administration Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: December 07, 2008 In an energetic talk delivered prior to the U.S. presidential election, Jonathan Gruber provides a useful breakdown of the two candidates’ remedie...

20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Keynote) Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: December 05, 2008 This two-part lecture provides a brief illustrated journey through our whaling past, and the heart-breaking current story of the North Atlantic ri...

20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Panel) Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: December 05, 2008 These legal, environmental and policy experts don’t converge on a dominant strategy for saving whales, but make the case in their own ways that we...

Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better Gatekeeper Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 24, 2008 Don’t forsake The New York Times for online media, instructs Ethan Zuckerman, because newspapers provide opportunities for learning about the worl...

High-Eco-Tech: Building Avant la Garde Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 There’s more than a little magic in Werner Sobek’s constructions, which balance aesthetics, architectural constraints and pathbreaking science to, ...

"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Great civil engineers finds an aesthetic appropriate for their building’s material and structure, asserts David Billington, whose life work has bee...

Reflections on an MIT Education Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 In a neat series of time capsules tagged to his MIT experience, Neil Pappalardo shares his story with MIT graduates in the hope that it will give...

Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Veerabhadran Ramanathan recaps 35 years of key findings, and brings his audience up to date on the latest climate data, models, and observations wh...

If the World is Flat, What are We Still Doing in Cambridge? Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 At the very moment when “we have to confront the opportunity or challenge of globalization,” says Allan Goodman, higher education appears woefully...

The U.S. and the World’s Recession Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Roberto Rigobon somehow makes his audience laugh while summarizing preliminary research on worldwide inflation and recession, data that bring some ...

Software Innovation—Do You Think the Last 20 Years Were Exciting? The Next 20 Years Will Blow Your Mind Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 In a trip down memory lane, Brad Feld regales us with the pre- and recent history of electronic innovation, with a rapid-fire delivery that achieve...

Neuroeconomics Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 A pioneer in a “dangerously hot research area,” Drazen Prelec peers into the human brain while it makes decisions. In his corner of the new field...

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