[Mitworld] Juan Williams and J. Phillip Thompson on Race, Politics and Media, Everitt on Addiction

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 12 |  November 4, 2009

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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.
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-Juan Williams

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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

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In The Pipeline:

The State of Drupal

Presented By:
Sustainability at MIT

Speaker:
Dries Buytaert
Acquia CTO & Founder
 Drupal Creator

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