MIT professor of science writing Tom Levenson discusses his new book, “The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe”.
Podcast: Stuart Brotman, “Global Internet Development Viewed Through The Net Vitality Lens”
Net Vitality is a new analytic approach to examine ways to sustain long-term Internet vibrancy, both in the United States and around the world, and helps inform future government policies that impact the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies.
Podcast and summary: Heather Hendershot, “From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor”
The conservative William F. Buckley hoped to convert viewers, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view.
Podcast: Sarah Zaidan, “Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming”
Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Summary, video, and podcast: “From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future By Studying the Past”
Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Summary, video, and podcast: “Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South”
Every time the Restorative Justice clinic has sent its researchers out to study one particular cold case, “invariably we find another case.”
Podcast: Hiromu Nagahara, “Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution”
Hiromu Nagahara on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of Japan’s “mass media revolution” in the 1920s and ’30s as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
