MIT150 Semi-Centennial Achievers Lunch
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Astronaut/alum Cady Coleman tour of the International Space Station
Astronaut/MIT alum Catherine "Cady" Coleman takes us on a video tour of the International Space Station as part of the MIT 150 anniversary celebration.
BLOSSOMS - Finding Acceleration of Gravity "g" using Pendulum (English Voiceover)
This very interactive video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum experiment to enable students to answer the fundamental question: What is the value of g in my school and in my home? Students will learn to calculate this value by working in groups to make pendulums of different lengths and by learning to count pendulum oscillations.
There is an App for that: The Future of the Mobile App Store
How will the App store impact the future landscape of technology development and commerce? With the advent of the iPhone, Andriod, Blackberry and the move to mobile computing it is becoming clear the real power is within the mobile application marketplace. The Apple App store for example has become the dominant marketplace for mobile software innovation and is vying for more control with the newly arrived iPad platform.
Scratch test on paraffin wax
This video shows a laboratory experiment of a scratch test on paraffin wax. For more information on this research performed by Professors Franz-Josef Ulm and Pedro Reis and graduate student Ange-Therese Akono, please visit the CEE website: http://cee.mit.edu/news/releases/2011/fracture-test
Video / Ange-Therese Akono and Pedro Reis
Stereoptic Motion: A 2-D Movie about 3-D Vision
Raphael Garcia of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT takes an inside look at the human visual system.
Matthew Ritchie: Systemic Thinking and Making
Ritchie speaks on the “historic, conceptual and practical uses of systems, how he sees systemic thinking and making in relation to debated concepts such as expression, universalism, allegory and finitude, the ‘difference equation’ and how historically heterarchical, holarchical, super-positional and semasiographic systems are used in his own practice,” with particular reference to his recent collaborative project The Morning Line in its interaction with viewers, documented in film footag
From Jim Crow to the March on Washington: Alumni authors look back on the beginnings of a movement
Eric Etheridge, Charles Euchner and Alex Heard – three Vanderbilt University alumni who have written important books about the early years of the Civil Rights Movement – returned to their alma mater for a discussion and book signing on April 21. Watch video of “From Jim Crow to the March on Washington: Alumni Authors Look Back on thekeep reading »
Nashville Ballet’s Carmina Burana
Watch video of Nashville Ballet’s Carmina Burana. Michael A. Rose, associate professor composition B at the Blair School of Music; Director Paul Vasterling, and dancers from the Nashville Ballet explored the larger than life production of Carmina Burana. Latin for Songs from Beuern, Carmina Burana is a collection of poems written by students and clergykeep reading »
How old is the universe? (part 6)
Watch video of Vanderbilt Professor David A. Weintraub speaking April 27 on “How Old is the Universe?” as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. David A. Weintraub is professor of astronomy, director of the Communication of Science & Technology program, and director of Undergraduate Studies for Department of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt University.keep reading »
“The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1836″ (part 6)
Watch video of Marshall Eakin, professor of history at Vanderbilt University, speaking April 27 on “The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1836,” as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The revolution that created the United States was only one of many American revolutions. From 1776 to 1836, wars for independence erupted throughout the Americas—fromkeep reading »
Learning outcomes Having studied this unit you should be able to: develop a strategy for using information technology skills over an extended period of time; monitor your progress and adapt your strategy as necessary, to achieve the quality of outcomes required; evaluate your overall strategy and present the outcomes from your work. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see Author(s): Introduction This key skill develops your information technology (IT) skills in your studies, work or other activities over a period of time. To tackle all of this key skill, you will need to plan your work over at least 3–4 months to give yourself enough time to practise and improve your skills, to seek feedback from others, to monitor your progress and evaluate your strategy and present outcomes. Skills in information technology cover a broad range, from using software unitages to developing a c Anglès per a la Informàtica L150U5A04 US Energy Policy and International Security Management Accounting Research Group (MARG) Conference 2011 14:00 - 16:00 The End of Remembering Reflections on Major Milestones in Cancer Research and Technology Development The Earth's magnetic field, snow, and Chernobyl
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Lindsey O. Graham was elected to serve as United States Senator on November 5, 2002. He serves on five committees in the U.S. Senate: Appropriations, Armed Services, Aging, Budget and Judiciary. A native South Carolinian, Graham grew up in Central, graduated from D.W. Daniel High School, and earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Graham logged six-and-a-half years of service on active duty as an Air Force lawyer. From 1984-1988, he was assigne
14:00, Robin Bellis-Jones, Director, Bellis-Jones Hill Group, Costing in the NHS - From Measurement to Management | 15:00, Panel Session | The theme for the 32nd MARG conference is Cost Management Strategies: Shifting Gears. The aim of the conference is to promote the discussion and development of leading edge ideas between researchers and senior practitioners.
Once upon a time remembering was everything. Today, we have endless mountains of documents, the Internet and ever-present smart phones to store our memories. As our culture has transformed from one that was fundamentally based on internal memories to one that is fundamentally based on memories stored outside the brain, what are the implications for ourselves and for our society? What does it mean that we've lost our memory? Joshua Foer studied evolutionary biology at Yale University and is now a
The breadth and depth of thinking represented in MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia would do William Barton Rogers proud, believes David Mindell. MIT’s founder and first president envisioned the university pursuing cutting edge work, and the “convergence of science and engineering 150 years later captures the essence
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how scientists plan to measure the Earth's magnetic field from space, why one researcher is in the frozen town of Churchill in northern Canada, and how the Chernobyl disaster still affects Northern Ireland 25 years on.
