[Mitworld] New: Chomsky on Language Faculty, Kim on Global Health

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 23 | January 24, 2008
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[THE BIOLOGY OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY: ITS PERFECTION, PAST AND FUTURE]

SPEAKER:
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor; Professor of Linguistics


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/517/>

[QUOTE]
"The theory of a genetic endowment...Universal Grammar...is often called
a controversial hypothesis, but the alternative is magic."
-- Noam Chomsky


EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
<http://lids.mit.edu/>

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[BRIDGING THE DELIVERY GAP TO GLOBAL HEALTH]

SPEAKER:
Jim Yong Kim
Co-Founder, Partners in Health
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and
Women's Hospital


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/516/>

[QUOTE]
"We can't live up to the Harvard Medical School mission statement -- to
create and nurture a community of the best people committed to
leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease -- just
being in the lab, or doing clinical research. We must now build
functioning health care systems everywhere in world."
-- Jim Yong Kim


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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MIT Museum Soap Box Series presents

James Morash
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Advancements in Underwater Vehicles:
Responding to Current Environmental Issues
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