From mit.world at mit.edu Fri Jul 2 07:28:05 2010 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:28:05 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Ian Waitz on Environmental Impacts of Aviation, Panel on Denialism and Disinformation Message-ID: <201007021128.o62BS5QS030215@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 46 | July 2, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental Impacts of Aviation April 13, 2010 Knowing more about the environmental impacts of aviation is increasingly essential, but according to Ian Waitz, it is also an area where uncertainties abound. One thing we know for sure is that the airplanes developed today will be flying for next 30 years, as the fleet dynamics are very stable, due to the extraordinary costs and lead-time to design and build. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/788 Speaker: Ian Waitz Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Aeronautics & Astronautics Department, MIT Event Host: Transportation at MIT "Time scales are long. The airplanes that are being designed today...and developed for delivery in the next year or two will still be flying for 30 years. So when we make decisions, we tend to live with them for a long time." -Ian Waitz -------------------------------------------------------------- Denialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation April 27, 2010 A few hundred years after the Enlightenment, western civilization is rushing back to the Dark Ages. The causes are debatable, but, argue these science journalists, the public increasingly rejects the findings of science, from climate change to evolution, and is turning away from rationality and reason in general. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/789 Speakers: Michael Specter Staff Writer, The New Yorker Chris Mooney Blogger, Discover Magazine2009-2010 Knight Journalism Fellow Shannon Brownlee Instructor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical PracticeSenior Research Fellow, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation Shankar Vedantam National Science Writer, The Washington Post Event Host: MIT Museum "People who care about science, care about rationality, who want to raise the level of science literacy and education -- we?ve got to stop ignoring the fundamental reality of who we are, how we think and gather information. We?ve got to give up on the Enlightenment idea ...that truth triumphs." -Chris Mooney -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Lunch with a Laureate: Jack Szostak Presented By: MIT Museum Cambridge Science Festival Speaker: Jack Szostak Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Facebook New videos posted to Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516

New videos are posted to Facebook as soon as they are published. We also feature lectures of topics in the news--at MIT and in the world. Become a Fan, or add MIT World to things you Like on Facebook today http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/20100702/35a4605b/attachment.htm From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Jul 7 09:54:47 2010 From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:54:47 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Anatoly Chubais on Rusnano, Johanna Drucker at HyperStudio Conference Message-ID: <201007071354.o67Dsltj023970@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 47 | July 7, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia April 9, 2010 In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer Noubar Afeyan, Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais presents an ambitious plan to create Russia?s Nanotechnology Center?a $10 billion, entrepreneurial ecosystem that incorporates education, research and business incubation. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/787 Speakers: Anatoly Chubais Chairman and CEO, Rusnano Noubar Afeyan PhD '87 Managing Partner and CEO, Flagship Ventures Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "We should do either the best technologies in the world, or (do) nothing." -Anatoly Chubais -------------------------------------------------------------- Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation May 20, 2010 Declaring that visualization techniques originally developed for empirical sciences and quantitative analytics lack the sophistication needed by humanists, Johanna Drucker emphasizes that humanists must remember their core orientation and approach interpretation not strictly as visualization. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/796 Speaker: Johanna Drucker Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Event Host: HyperStudio "We tend to look at static media as if they were fixed, final and self-evident things. They are not. They are not self-evident. They are provocations for performance. " -Johanna Drucker -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Alzheimer?s Disease: Realizing the Promise of Molecular Medicine Presented By: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Cells, Circuits, and Behavior Speaker: Steven Paul Former President Lilly Research Laboratories -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Facebook New videos posted to Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516

New videos are posted to Facebook as soon as they are published. We also feature lectures of topics in the news--at MIT and in the world. Become a Fan, or add MIT World to things you Like on Facebook today http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/20100707/a61e965d/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Wed Jul 14 14:03:55 2010 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:03:55 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Henry Jenkins' Farewell, Nobel Laureate Eric Chivian Message-ID: <201007141803.o6EI3tNv031310@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 48 | July 14, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- Jenkins? Farewell: Reflections on a Career at MIT April 22, 2010 In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT?s culture, his new life at USC, and the state of digital cultures, new media and collective intelligence. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/790 Speaker: Henry Jenkins Provost?s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Event Host: MIT Communications Forum "I lived in the dorms and every dorm room had books in them. And the books that survive when you have tight space are books that are valued. And some of them might be graphic novels, and some might be science fiction, and some might be Middlemarch. " -Henry Jenkins -------------------------------------------------------------- Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian April 29, 2010 Eric Chivian believes that scientists could do a better job of explaining complex environmental issues to the public and public policy makers. By focusing on the health and medical components, he hopes his organizations will make the issues more concrete and understandable for everyone. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/797 Speaker: Eric Chivian Co-founder International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Founder and Director, Center for Health and the Envirnoment, Harvard Medical School1985 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Event Host: MIT Museum "Several of us physicians in this anti-nuclear physicians' movement started thinking of these global environmental issues?global climate change, loss of biological diversity, the ozone depletion?as, in effect, Armageddon in slow motion." -Eric Chivian -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Numbers, Words and Colors Presented By: HyperStudio Humanities + Digital Visual Interpretations Conference Speaker: Martin Wattenberg Co-Founder Flowing Media -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Facebook New videos posted to Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516

New videos are posted to Facebook as soon as they are published. We also feature lectures of topics in the news--at MIT and in the world. Become a Fan, or add MIT World to things you Like on Facebook today http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/20100714/5b8715d3/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Mon Jul 19 13:59:45 2010 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:59:45 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Catherine Dulac Message-ID: <201007191759.o6JHxjug012194@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 49 | July 19, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lunch with a Laureate: Jack Szostak April 28, 2010 Jack Szostak started his first lab as a ?freshly minted assistant professor? working in DNA recombination and repair reactions. While researchers had known for years that the broken ends of DNA strands behaved differently from broken DNA in the middle of the strand, they did not know the details. Szostak details his research journey that led to amazing discoveries, and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/801 Speaker: Jack W. Szostak Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Alex. A. Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General HospitalHoward Hughes Medical Institute Investigator 2009 Nobel Laureate in Medicine Event Host: MIT Museum "[The origins of life] is an unusual kind of science because we can?t go back and watch what happened. I don?t think we can ever be sure of exactly how life got started on our planet. " -Jack Szostak -------------------------------------------------------------- Sex Battles in the Brain May 7, 2010 The expression of certain genes depends on whether they were inherited from the mother or the father, a phenomenon known as imprinting. Catherine Dulac has discovered that a surprisingly large number of brain genes are imprinted, often in complex ways. Her findings have broad implications for understanding the inheritance of behavioral traits and disease susceptibility. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/798 Speaker: Catherine Dulac Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Event Host: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT "Clearly, there is a different contribution of the maternal and the paternal genome to brain development. And there is also a different contribution of the maternal and paternal genome to different parts of the adult brain. And what this suggests is that the repertoire of imprinted genes coming from mom and coming from dad is likely to be different in different brain areas. " -Catherine Dulac -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: A Volume Control for the Sense of Smell Presented By: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Cells, Circuits, and Behavior Speaker: Rachel Wilson Associate Professor of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter 140 characters at a time. http://twitter.com/MITWorld

New videos are posted on Twitter--a new way to keep up on MIT World. http://twitter.com/MITWorld -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/20100719/81cecd7f/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Wed Jul 21 16:09:32 2010 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:09:32 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Don Sadoway on 3.091 and Energy Storage, Shneiderman on Visualizing Data Message-ID: <201007212009.o6LK9WRo025650@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 50 | July 21, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- Innovation in Energy Storage: What I Learned in 3.091 was All I Needed to Know June 5, 2010 In a lecture that could have been titled, "Better Education through Chemistry", Don Sadoway begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education innovation, sharing creative ways to teach chemistry, through music, art and poetry. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/800 Speaker: Donald R. Sadoway John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry Department of Materials Science EngineeringMargaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow Event Host: Alumni Association "How do we think against the grain? Pose the right question." -Don Sadoway -------------------------------------------------------------- Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for Scholars in the Humanities, Arts, and Beyond May 20, 2010 A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman?s work over the past two decades. He advocates the discovery of temporal patterns, relationships and clusters via an empowering user experience which enables discovery at a customizable pace and depth. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/802 Speaker: Ben Shneiderman Professor, Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland Event Host: HyperStudio "We're after things like trends, clusters, gaps and outliers and (the) tools we work with are the design variables - the retinal variables - of color, size, shape and proximity. ? The game is really wide open as to how to do that correctly." -Ben Shneiderman -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Network-Driven Transportation Presented By: Transportation at MIT Speaker: Li-Shiuan Peh Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter 140 characters at a time. http://twitter.com/MITWorld

New videos are posted on Twitter--a new way to keep up on MIT World. http://twitter.com/MITWorld -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/20100721/3e3688c6/attachment.htm From mit.world at MIT.EDU Thu Jul 29 14:42:10 2010 From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:10 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Andrew Lo on Economics and Physics, Steven Paul on Alzheimers Disease Message-ID: <201007291842.o6TIgAlN012801@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 51 | July 29, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth June 5, 2010 Andrew Lo addresses the problem of finding the right level of abstraction with which to think about economic phenomena. He compares economics to physics, with some surprising results. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/794 Speaker: Andrew Lo Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDirector, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "Physics envy, is this desire to be able to explain 99% of all economic phenomenon with 3 laws. That?s what physicists can do. In fact we (economists) have 99 laws that explain maybe 3% of all phenomenon." -Andrew Lo -------------------------------------------------------------- Alzheimer?s Disease: Realizing the Promise of Molecular Medicine May 7, 2010 Steven Paul, former Executive Vice President at Lilly, reviews our current understanding of the pathological mechanisms and implications for future treatments of Alzheimer?s disease. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/803 Speaker: Steven Paul Former President, Lilly Research Laboratories Event Host: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT "Alzheimer?s disease is arguably the most important challenge we have in terms of public health." -Steven Paul -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age Presented By: Comparative Media Studies 10th Anniversary Symposium Moderator: James Paradis Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing, Program Head Writing and Humanistic Studies -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT Center for Real Estate?s Silver Anniversary CRE invites you to celebrate http://web.mit.edu/cre/events/anniversary/index.html

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