Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the Planet
The “dominant story of the next century” will be one of either gloom or redemption, says Steven Hamburg, depending on how humanity chooses to address climate change. To date, Earth’s inhabitants have not meaningfully acknowledged this choice. Yet Hamburg retains a streak of optimism, based on his belief that br
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds’ growing population. Imagine a projected population of nine billion individuals. If this future population had mobility patterns like drivers in the United States, there would be a staggering 7.6 billion motor vehicles, using 440 million barre
Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better Gatekeeper
Don’t forsake The New York Times for online media, instructs Ethan Zuckerman, because newspapers provide opportunities for learning about the world largely unavailable in the digital kingdom. Zuckerman points in particular to the “serendipity box” -- that intensely local or exotic piece that often grabs attention
The Future of Digital Public Media
Public broadcasting executives and producers discuss their changing roles as digital technology transforms the news and entertainment industries, and provides individuals with powerful tools for shaping their communities. Moderator Jake Shapiro asks panelists to discuss ventures that illustrate new dimensions of public medi
Developing Future Leaders
If Woodie Flowers gets his way, students with the vision and initiative to change the world will be commonplace at MIT – rather than the extraordinary exemplars who speak on his panel: Elizabeth Basha, who’s developing an early storm warning system for rural villages in a Honduras river basin prone to
Sustainable Building Design @ MIT: Walking the Talk
There’s “just exactly enough time, with no time to lose” to address the massive challenge of climate change and renewable energy, says moderator John Sterman. With this sense of urgency, MIT faculty, administration and students have taken to heart the mission of rendering their campus and the larger world more sustainable.
Liberty by Design
Recalling a lecture he gave at MIT in 2005,
Alan Davidson returns to the questions of the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the Internet space.
Instead of viewing it as a lawyer for a public policy interest group—his previous role—he now approaches it from his new perspective as a publ
Portuguese online
This website offers an online beginner's course of the Portugese language for the lay and academic user. It offers lessons divided into four major units, covering the langauge from the beginnings to the top of the introductory level. Lexical and grammatical differences between European and Latin-American use are carefully shown. The site also offers pronunciation lessons and grammatical tables and assistance. Language lessons are complemented by basic introductory lessons to the culture of the
Portugal em linha
This website is a community website attempting to create cohesion among the more than twohundred million speakers of Portuguese, and it achieves its aim by providing opportunities for interaction. It also introduces contemporary arts and artists, contemporary and classical writing, it directs the readers to online Brazilian papers and online English language newspapers published outside Brazil. This site has been acknowledged as the main instrument of populiarising the language, and it is a par
South Asian diaspora
The South Asia Diaspora website hosted by the South / Southeast Asia Library at the University of California, Berkeley, contains several useful resources for scholars researching the Indian diaspora. The site briefly describes the relevant archives held at Berkeley, and includes images from the archive illustrating aspects of the diaspora in California. An essays section summarises the history of Indian immigration to California during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and links to further
Dim sum
Dim Sum is an English language websites that covers cultural and news stories of interest to Chinese communities around the United Kingdom. From the main page, users can view sections covering issues such as: family; community; food; performance arts; lifestyle; identity; immigration; and gender. The resource can be browsed by section, or by individual issue. For example, the features' section on women covers such varying topics as: women writers; being a single Chinese woman; Western impression
China gateway
China Gateway is a collection of annotated gateways of relevance to undergraduate students and their teachers. Although primarily meant as a study aid for the students of Boston College, China Gateway aims to offer a concise introduction to the manner in which developments in the digital world have aided the study of Chinese culture and society. From the Culture and History section of the main page, users will find links to gateways (themed in sections), covering: geography and maps; language an
Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese Vistas
The online companion to BBC Radio 4's 2008 Reith Lecture series allows users to listen to and read transcripts of talks and discussion from China expert Jonathan Spence. The Reith lectures were inaugurated in order to increase public understanding of important issues of the day, and in 2008 (Beijing Olympic year), Spence delivered lectures on: Chinese ideas of sport and athleticism; the relationship between China and the United States; China and the United Kingdom in the post-Mao era; and Confuc
visual:design:scholarship
visual:design:scholarship is the open full-text ejournal of The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA). This scholarly journal aims to... "stimulate, support and disseminate design research with a focus on visual communication design in the Australasian context". At April 2010 there are six issues online, freely presenting scholarly papers as HTML abstracts and PDF downloads. At April 2010, example article titles include: 'Pictorial communication in developing countries: a literature revi
Jews and the graphic novel
'Jews and the Graphic Novel' is a 22-page documentary comic book created and written by David Gantz. This comic is free to read online, and offers a condensed history of the immense contribution made by American Jewish men to the art and craft of the comic book in the 20th century. The author has the advantage of having worked in the industry since the 1940s, and there is particular focus on the impact of the Second World War on the industry. In 22 pages, this free online comic can only scratch
BBC Radio 4 : Woman's hour : women's poetry in the first world war
The website "BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour: Women's poetry in the First World War" is an audio clip of 10'26'' featuring an interview with Michele Fry about her presentation at a conference (2001) about women's poetry during World War One. The discussion explores briefly the literary contributions of women poets: Mary Boden; Rose Macaulay; and Jessie Pope, contrasting them against the better known male poets of WWI, such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Antonia Beamish reads excerpts from po
Miranda
Miranda is an open access full-text ejournal, published from the University of Toulouse, France. Themed peer-reviewed issues explore... "social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world". At May 2010 there is one issue available, a substantial issue on Charles Darwin and his legacy / Thomas Hardy and Science beyond Darwin. Articles are in either French or English, and are in HTML format. Example English articles in the first issue include: 'Darwin in Wonderland: evolution, involuti
Acknowledgements
Scientists throughout the world are increasingly interested in the relationship between science and society. Part of their concern is with the social responsibilities scientists have in relation to broader public interests. That raises important issues to do with the ethical and social dimension of scientists' work and how scientists explain – and perhaps justify – their work to the wider public.
5 Contributors to the course
Scientists throughout the world are increasingly interested in the relationship between science and society. Part of their concern is with the social responsibilities scientists have in relation to broader public interests. That raises important issues to do with the ethical and social dimension of scientists' work and how scientists explain – and perhaps justify – their work to the wider public.
3.1 Introduction to the Timetable
Scientists throughout the world are increasingly interested in the relationship between science and society. Part of their concern is with the social responsibilities scientists have in relation to broader public interests. That raises important issues to do with the ethical and social dimension of scientists' work and how scientists explain – and perhaps justify – their work to the wider public.
