From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Nov 4 11:32:20 2009 From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:32:20 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] Juan Williams and J. Phillip Thompson on Race, Politics and Media, Everitt on Addiction Message-ID: <200911041632.nA4GWKK9014106@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 12 | November 4, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------- Race, Politics and American Media October 8, 2009 Juan Williams and J. Phillip Thompson discuss how the collapse of print and other traditional news and the rise of celebrity culture have contributed to the sharp decline of in-depth stories involving race and society. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/718 Speakers: Juan Williams News Analyst, NPR Political Analyst, Fox News Channel J. Phillip Thompson Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT David Thorburn MIT Professor of Literature MacVicar Faculty FellowDirector, MIT Communications Forum Event Host: MIT Communications Forum "In what remains of the black press, they don?t cover crises with any sense of urgency. ... There?s no investment of money, or placing journalists in position to tell you critical stories time and again with any sense of dispatch, any sense of trying to dig deep into a story to find the systemic identity of the political power players who have their finger on levers causing distress in lower income communities. It doesn?t exist. " -Juan Williams -------------------------------------------------------------- Neural Basis of Drug Addiction May 7, 2009 How does someone move from recreational drug use to addiction? Barry Everitt?s group at the University of Cambridge has been trying to break down the stages and neural circuitry of addiction with great precision. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/712 Speaker: Barry Everitt Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge Event Host: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT "The initial acquisition of seeking and taking of drugs in a goal-directed sense depends on mechanisms operating through the ventral parts of the striatum. This shifts to be under control of mechanisms in the dorsal striatum as it becomes habitual. " -Barry Everitt -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: The State of Drupal Presented By: Sustainability at MIT Speaker: Dries Buytaert Acquia CTO & Founder Drupal Creator -------------------------------------------------------------- 2009 MIT Global Operations Conference New Visions for Global Operations:
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It?s even more motivating to see how such insights are translated into benefits for patients." -Ed Scolnick -------------------------------------------------------------- Final Journey to the Hubble Space Telescope October 28, 2009 Astronaut Mike Massimino returns to MIT and shares his experience on the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125). Topics include the challenges of space walking while repairing the Hubble, having the right tools on hand for high stakes repairs, and the long hours of practice that lead up to the task. As the first astronaut to Twitter from space, Massimino provides funny, personal and insightful anecdotes from the mission including the competition amongst his team to be the last human to touch the Hubble. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/722 Speaker: Mike Massimino SM?88, ME?90, Ph.D,92 Astronaut Event Host: MIT Libraries "You go from 0 to 17,500 miles an hour in eight and a half minutes. So this thing has you, and it's going to take you, and thank goodness it knows where it's going." -Mike Massimino -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: What?s New at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media? Presented By: MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media Moderator: Chris Csikszentmihalyi Director Center for Future Civic Media -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Project 800 is a government venture to apply science and technology to better the lives of India?s 800 million citizens facing a multitude of hardships. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/724 Speaker: Kapil Sibal Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India Event Host: Global MIT "Can you provide solutions for Indian problems by research in the US? I doubt it. The site of research must shift to where the problem exists." -Kapil Sibal -------------------------------------------------------------- The State of Drupal October 26, 2009 Dries Buytaert relates a synopsis of his life with Drupal. From its inception during Buytaert's "typical geek" undergraduate days in Antwerp in 1999, to the upcoming release of Drupal 7, Buytaert places a particular emphasis on the community that has been created by the nature of an open source product. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/723 Speaker: Dries Buytaert Founder, Drupal CTO and Co-founder, Acquia Event Host: Sustainability at MIT "Drupal is a 'Do-ocracy', meaning the stuff that gets into Drupal 7 is the stuff that people like you actually worked on. " -Dries Buytaert -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Liberty by Design Presented By: Engineering Systems Division Brunel Lecture on Complex Systems Moderator: Alan Davidson Director of Government Relations and Public Policy Google -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20091130/05934c49/attachment.htm