[Mitworld] NIMH Director Tom Insel on Autism, Edgar Blanco on Efficient Supply Chains

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 31 |  March 31, 2010

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Autism: What Do We Know? What Do We Need?
December 2, 2009

Dr. Thomas Insel provides the latest medical and scientific views on this complex developmental 
brain disorder.  While researchers may now increasingly refer to autisms (plural) or think of the 
disorder along a spectrum, these categories may cause more problems in getting to the underlying 
biology of the disorder.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/756

Speaker:
Thomas Insel
Director, National Institute of Mental Health


Event Host:
Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT 

"The biggest need ... in the field, in the short run, is to identify the heterogeneity of this 
disorder and get away from thinking of it as a spectrum of a single disorder and to begin to 
understand — if this is 10, 20, 40 different disorders — how we can parse them and identify them."
-Dr. Thomas Insel

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Carbon and Energy Efficient Supply Chains
October 27, 2009

Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that 
could begin to change consumer behavior. The common banana you buy, say organic or not, is probably 
labeled by the country or origin. Increasingly, you might see a second sticker which can
tally the banana’s total carbon emissions as it moved from farm to table.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/755

Speaker:
Edgar Blanco
Research Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Executive Director, MIT SCALE Latin America


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"[on analyzing food miles]  Once you 
bring on the whole picture of CO2 emissions, you may start having problems of scope, if you do not 
include all of the emissions that really matter to the supply chain.  If you only focus on the 
transportation ones, you may start making some really, really bad decisions for the environment."
-Edgar Blanco

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In The Pipeline:

Creating Value in a Volatile World

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
David Simchi-Levi
Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil Engineering
MIT

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