Innovation at Harvard
This video was developed to celebrate the innovative ideas and solutions that Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working on every day across disciplines and around the globe.
It highlights innovation at Harvard today and throughout history, including discoveries in:
Health and Medicine
Science
Humanities
Arts
Harvard's History
Below you will find the different segments of the film broken out by topic for easier viewing.
We hope it gives you a vivid sense
Buster Baxter Lung Defender (Interactive)
Learn about different asthma triggers and how they can affect the lungs of someone with asthma. Travel into Buster's lungs to protect him from various asthma triggers and see how an inhaler helps.
Crocodile Skeleton - Ribcage
The crocodile's ribs do not offer very much protection because it spends most of its life in the water with only its back exposed.
Experimental Biology & Communication, Spring 2005
7.02 and 7.021 require simultaneous registration. Application of experimental techniques in biochemistry, microbiology, and cell biology. Emphasizes integrating factual knowledge with understanding the design of experiments and data analysis to prepare the students for research projects. Instruction and practice in written communication provided.
The News of the Day
Op het einde van deze les kun je: Op basis van de geformuleerde vragen en antwoorden een paragraaf schrijven om iemand voor te stellen.
Air Force One
Air Force one, the most recognized plane in the world, sits empty on the tarmac of Andrews Air Force Base. In this video clip, watch as the technology that once made this airplane a state of the art fortress actually causes its destruction. (4:06)
Hidden Nature: Silkmoth Metamorphosis (Pupation)
This amazing short video shows a female White-Streaked Silkmoth (Saturnia albofasciata) performing the first parts of her miraculous metamorphosis from caterpillar into adult moth. This cut-away view shows what nature normally hides from sight: the caterpillar changing into its pupal phase where it will wait until fall. If you look closely and/or freeze the video just after the skin is shed, you can make out the compressed form of the adult moth, with head, antennae and stubby wings outlined in
Learn with Video #2 - Learning Japanese Vocabulary for Farm Animals Has Never Been More Fun!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! After the amazing day you spent in the park with your friends, you learned so many great Japanese words for common animals that you decided to take your Japanese to the next level. In an attempt to impress your friends this time though, you have been studying Japanese vocabulary for farm [...]
Golden Compass Author on the Nature and Meaning of Dust
A conversation between The Golden Compass author Philip Pullman and Donna Freitas author of Killing the Imposter God on the meaning and nature of the Dust in Golden Compass.
Poisson Process-Part 1
Introduction to Poisson Processes and the Poisson Distribution. (11:01)
Travels with Garrison - the gig of a lifetime (short version)
Richard Kriehn travels with Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio road show—as a member of The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
He is also an instructor and academic advisor in Washington State University's School of Music, where he teaches violin, mandolin, viola, and guitar. In 2006, he sent a sample of his music to A Prairie Home Companion, hoping to land a place in an upcoming performance at Pullman's Beasley Coliseum. The music director invited him to sit in with the band and thing
Mechanics Mania
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called “mechanics.” The study of mechanics is a way to improve our understanding of everyday movements, such as how gravity pulls things together, how objects balance, spin and twirl, and how things fly and fall. While studying Newton's three laws of motion, students gain hands-on experience with the con
GPS Receiver Basics
Students familiarize themselves — through trial and error — with the basics of GPS receiver operation. They view a receiver's satellite visibility screen as they walk in various directions and monitor their progress on the receiver's map. Students may enter waypoints and use the GPS information to guide them back to specific locations.
Energy
Through nine lessons, students are introduced to a range of energy types — electrical, light, sound and thermal — as well as the renewable energy sources of wind, hydro (water) and solar power. Subjects range from understanding that the movement of energy at the electron level creates electricity that powers our world, to recognizing the Sun as our ultimate energy source. Through numerous hands-on activities, students explore a wide range of scientific topics related to the fundamentals of e
CareTrack Study - How Good is our Health Care?
Simple electronic tools like mobile phone apps are being developed to improve health care delivery following the CareTrack Australia study which has revealed some serious shortfalls in medical best practice in Australia.
The three year CareTrack study by The University of New South Wales and The University of South Australia is proposing the use of information technology and simple tools for both doctors and patients as a way of ensuring appropriate care is delivered more often by the health
Sesame Street: The Martians Discover a Telephone
The Martians try communicating with a telephone -- without much success. Yip-yip-yip-yip. Young learners will enjoy this cute video as the martians call the telephone all different kinds of things. It would be a great resource to introduce preschoolers to everyday objects and to help build vocabulary. (2:53)
Jaws
Alien Punctuation: An Interactive Game About Capitalization and Punctuation
In this interactive game, students correct sentence errors by adding capital letters and punctuation. The game contains three levels of diffuculty. ( This link is for an interactive game and may take a few minutes to load.)
Communication
In the Conversation class there are three parts, precommunication, communication and postcommunication. These are the basis of the class and all that has to be done in the three of these.
