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MIT World — A Primary Source of Great Ideas on the Web Which ideas and innovations can change the world? MIT World™ answers that question by publishing key presentations by the MIT faculty and guest speakers who are shaping the future. These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere. More a publication of thought leadership, and less a news site, MIT World aims to capture the pulse and excitement of the range of ideas discussed at MIT every day and share them with the world. A growing archive offers insights on topics ranging from architecture to innovation to technology and sustainability. Cumulatively, these presentations by world-class thinkers and doers map great ideas in the making.
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| 1 | VideoAchieving US Energy Security Through Energy Diversity | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoEarth Systems Engineering and Management | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe Most Important Number in the World | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoPersonalized Energy | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoWhales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil- What’s Next? | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoFrom Rocks to Genes and Back: Stories about the Evolution of Photosynthesis | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoFuel Cells and Portable Power Solutions | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (panel) | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Keynote) | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoA View From Industry | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoEnergy: The Past Must Not Be Prologue | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoTransportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally and Walking the Talk | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoImproving Your Commute | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoGeothermal - An Undervalued Primary U.S. Energy Source | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoThe Great Climategate Debate | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoFrom IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoClimate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the Planet | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoOpportunities in Building More Sustainable Supply Chains | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoNext Generation Solar Cells – Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoClimate Variability and Change and their Impact on the Global Harvest | -- | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoEnergy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Opportunities | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoOpportunities for Reducing U.S. Transportation's Petroleum Usage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoSustainable Building Design@MIT: Walking the Talk | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoGrowing Pains - Transitioning to a Sustainable Energy Economy | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoLuminescent Solar Concentrators Explained | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoThe Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoGeosciences and Carbon Sequestration to Address Climate Change | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoThe Hydrogen Initiative: The Hydrogen Storage Challenge | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoThe Invisible Forest: Microbes in the Sea | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoThe Role of Information Technology in Improving Transit Systems | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoEconomics: Regulation and Deregulation of Energy Sectors | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoAmerica’s Leadership in Clean Energy | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoPlanet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoGetting Unstuck: How to Promote More Sustainable Practices in Our Organizations | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoThe Enernet | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoClimate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Society | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoAnthropogenic Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoOpportunities in Infrastructure and Built Environment | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoClimate Change: The Economics of and Prospects for a Global Deal | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoNanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells | Environment/Energy | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoFisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security | -- | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoCarbon and Energy Efficient Supply Chains | 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 s | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoSustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT | Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds’ growing population. Imagine a projected population of nine billion individuals. If this future population had mobility patterns like drivers in the United States, there w | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoAutomotive Lightweighting as a Strategic Opportunity for India’s Automotive Industry | Suppose you could leapfrog 100 years of experience in the automotive industry and begin a new manufacturing epoch. The strategic change you would make is to lightweight the vehicle, observes Charles Fine. Although steel has been the material of choice for | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoTransportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach | In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing mobility. Mobility was facilely linked to the engines of economic growth and expanding GDP. In t | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoModeling Human Mobility | Researchers who wish to study mobility patterns might be reaching for your phone. Increasingly, cell phones are equipped with locational receivers (Global Positioning Systems or GPS) and their bread crumb trails are opening up entirely new ways to study a | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoEnvironmental Impacts of Aviation | 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 year | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoTransportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Developing Cities | It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint increases. While this relationship affords benefits to those in developed nations, it is not scalable. Global population is projecte | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoThe U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants | “This machine of ours is running out of control” is Thomas A. Christopher’s sobering assessment of the consequences we face as a result of our insatiable appetite for energy. His talk is notable for its lucid and detailed descriptions of energy mark | 6/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoLunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian | In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold. Encouraged by Australian physician, Helen Caldicott, who spoke of the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle and of nuclear power | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoEnergy Innovation at Scale | The United States urgently needs a transformation of its energy supply both to address climate change and for reasons of energy security. To meet this immense challenge, the nation requires not just technological breakthroughs, but heavy lifting from big | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoInnovation in Energy Storage: What I Learned in 3.091 was All I Needed to Know | 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. Calling 3.09 | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoPerspectives on the Unfolding Spill: Evidence of the Environmental Impacts of the Event | While the government declared an end to the oil spill at the Macondo well on September 19, 2010, research into the causes and impacts of the Gulf disaster is ongoing. At the kickoff panel of a three-part symposium, three scientists discuss what they are l | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoPlanning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and Identifying the Parties at Risk | The Deepwater Horizon disaster spread through not just a vast coastal ecosystem, but into diverse human communities lining the Gulf, many entirely dependent on the sea for their livelihoods. These three panelists describe their involvement in quite dispar | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoMoving Ahead: Engineering Challenges of Deep Water Drilling and Future Oil Resource Recovery | To keep up with demand, the oil industry ventures increasingly farther and deeper offshore, extracting resources as fast as possible in often hazardous conditions with newly minted technology. So to these panelists, the BP Deepwater Horizon accident did n | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoRe-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology | The built environment consumes a very large share of the nation’s energy, and so offers rich opportunities for reducing our overall carbon footprint. MIT researchers share innovations that could soon radically alter the energy profile, as well as form a | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoThe Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting It | In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of energy and environment, John Holdren lays out the difficult options for contending with a world rapidly overheating. “There is no question the world is growin | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoThe Clean Energy Revolution | Beyond guts, a great business plan, and friends with deep pockets, clean energy entrepreneurs will need patience and perhaps most of all, a favorable policy environment to succeed. Fortune magazine editor Brian Dumaine leads a discussion with panelists fr | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoHow Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century? (Panel) | Rajendra K. Pachauri leads fellow members of the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC in a remarkable public session of soul-searching. Now that the IPCC has helped make climate change a signal issue of our times, what next? John Reilly wonders whether the IPCC shou | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoMixing Oil and Ecosystems | “An oil spill is a crime scene,” says Christopher Reddy, but quite unlike the kind in TV whodunits, where fictional forensic whizzes help nail down perpetrators with an arsenal of lab tools. For Reddy, a chemist involved in analyzing oil spills, inves | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoProbing the Plume | t’s a good thing for oil spill science that Richard Camilli was not yet on a flight to Australia when the Coast Guard called last May. An hour later and Camilli might have missed the urgent request to get a team together to measure the month-old leak fr | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoEnergy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles | Soon, after checking under the hood and kicking the tires, we will be scanning our car’s on-board diagnostic system (OBD). Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to take advantage of a car’s sensor bus, the module that records and conveys informatio | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoGlobal Resources and the Built Environment | With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world’s resources, setting the stage for global crisis. Yet Fernandez counters his own bleak picture with some bright ex | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoThe Future of Nuclear Energy | Nuclear energy will emerge either as a solution to the twin crises of global warming and a secure energy supply, or global catastrophe. Within this panel at least, there doesn’t seem to be a comfortable middle ground. MIT’s Andrew Kadak, one of the t | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 66 Episodes |
