Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors....

Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me....

This video presents an overview of the Lemelson-MIT Program's awards and initiatives. The program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. The Lemelson-...

Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a polymer expert who has inventions in green manufacturing, nanomedicine and medical devices. His lab-to-market entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship are hallmarks of his ca...

Martin Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit social enterprise KickStart. To date, Fisher s low-cost irrigation pumps and innovative business model have helped to lift nearly 80 percent of his customers poor African farmers out of poverty. Biography | Press Release...

Yossi Sheffi Director, MIT Center for Transportation Professor, Engineering Systems, MITCTL Director Yossi Sheffi discusses his book The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, in which he argues that a company s survival and prosperity depend more on what it does b...

As part of the DARPA Learning Locomotion project, the CSAIL Robot Locomotion Group under the direction of Prof. Russ Tedrake has been designing robust control strategies for a small quadruped robot to dynamically traverse rough terrain containing obstacles with heights comparable to the leg length o...

Part 2 of MSRP 2008 a graduate application panel consisting of:Paula Hammond - Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical EngineeringDava Newman - Professor, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Director TPP, Department of Aeronautics and AstronauticStephen Bell - Professor, Department of B...

Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?...

An interesting way of demonstrating the operation of a stepper motor. The rotating wire makes contact with the stepper coils in a specific sequence that causes the motor to "step."...

Phi Ho ('08) discusses his work with The Global Child in Cambodia while on a Public Service Fellowship....

Tess Veuthy ('08) and Maria Luckyanova ('08) discuss their non-profit organization, Developing World Prosthetics, and their work in India with the Jaipur Foot Organization. Their team, Vac-Cast Prosthetics, now called Developing World Prosthetics, won the 2006-2007 MIT IDEAS Competition....

Get surprisingly good sound from disposable picnicware with this easy to make and inexpensive Styrofoam Plate Speaker. Thanks go to José Pino for the original article in Make Magazine.To download Styrofoam Plate Speaker MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the Styrofoam Plate Speaker ar...

First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic....

Scene from Moby-Dick: Then and Now betwen Starbuck and Ahab....

Video detailing the reading habits of Rudy Cabrera, Wyn Kelley, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, and Henry Jenkins....

The Sermon as performed (in two parts) in the play Moby-Dick: Then and Now....

Folding Wall-E in origami. Now go watch (real) WALL-E, it's great! for more see http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/wall_e If you watch closely you see that several origami versions are used in this video. The basic design is the same (see crease pattern)...

The CNN series "Innovators" spotlights MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott and her work to bring clean water to developing countries. It highlights the innovation of the Kanchan [Note: Kanchan should have superscript TM and should be in italics if you ...

Clip of Rudy Cabrera describing his thoughts on performance in the theater and in real life....

The first act of the play "Moby-Dick: Then and Now," directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, and performed in North Kingstown, RI in July 2007....

Daniel Mokrauer-Madden ('08) talks about participating in the annual CityDays, the MIT IDEAS Competition, winning the Priscilla King Gray Award, and more....

Wyn Kelley discussing the juxtaposition as seen in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick....

Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible....