MIT World Series: Soap Box

MIT World Series: Soap Box

29 Videos · Nov 15, 2005

About

Soap Box is an interactive series in which participants of all backgrounds converse with top MIT scientists or engineers in an informal cafe-style setting at the MIT Museum. Now in its sixth year, Soap Box is the premier public forum for discussing new technological and scientific developments at MIT.

About the Host - **MIT Museum

This MIT World Series is available at http://mitworld.mit.edu/series/view/88

Videos

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01:13:04

Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells

Vladimir Bulovic

Sep 16, 2013

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2691 views

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01:03:32

Advancements in Underwater Vehicles: Responding to Current Environmental Issues

James Morash

Sep 16, 2013

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2722 views

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01:15:09

Fuel Cells and Portable Power Solutions

Donald R. Sadoway

Sep 16, 2013

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4796 views

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01:15:31

Geothermal - An Undervalued Primary U.S. Energy Source

Jefferson W. Tester

Sep 16, 2013

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2828 views

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01:19:25

Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better Gatekeeper

Ethan Zuckerman

Sep 16, 2013

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2354 views

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01:35:06

The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably

Kerry Emanuel,

Ernest J. Moniz

Sep 16, 2013

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2441 views

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56:44

Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?

Nancy Hopkins

Sep 16, 2013

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2306 views

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01:19:23

A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It

Amos Winter,

Kendra Johnson,

Jules Walter

Sep 16, 2013

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2218 views

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01:07:59

Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society

Oct 12, 2011

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2689 views

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01:12:47

The Brain Basis of Human Vision

Nancy Kanwisher

Oct 12, 2011

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4813 views

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01:32:49

The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy

Angela Belcher,

Daniel Nocera

Oct 12, 2011

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3559 views

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01:06:10

The Implications of Synthetic Biology

Drew Endy

Oct 12, 2011

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2865 views

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01:06:34

Human Genetics: Our Past and Our Future

David Altshuler

Oct 12, 2011

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3457 views

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01:29:53

Growing Pains - Transitioning to a Sustainable Energy Economy

John B. Heywood,

Stephen Ansolabehere

Oct 12, 2011

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2813 views

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01:09:41

Global Warming, Up Close and Local

Richard B. Primack

Oct 12, 2011

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2511 views

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01:14:13

Robotics in Space Exploration

Rodney A. Brooks

Oct 11, 2011

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3087 views

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01:05:48

Global Pandemics

Hidde Ploegh

Oct 11, 2011

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2802 views

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01:11:04

One Laptop per Child: Revolutionizing How the World's Children Engage in Learnin...

Walter Bender

Oct 11, 2011

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3343 views

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01:07:56

New Lessons in Cancer Research

Jacqueline A. Lees

Oct 11, 2011

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3629 views

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01:21:25

Next Generation Solar Cells: Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale

Tonio Buonassisi

Oct 10, 2011

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3830 views

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01:18:40

The Future of the News

Oct 10, 2011

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2426 views

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01:16:54

Sociable Robots

Cynthia Breazeal,

Sherry Turkle

Oct 10, 2011

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4484 views

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01:10:47

Do-It-Yourself Biology

Natalie Kuldell,

Reshma Shetty

Oct 10, 2011

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6570 views

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01:16:37

Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained

Marc A. Baldo

Oct 10, 2011

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3568 views

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01:19:05

Technologies Changing Communities, Communities Innovating Technology

Alexa Mills,

Dayna Cunningham

Oct 10, 2011

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3327 views

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01:13:14

The Role of Civic Media in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

Henry Jenkins

Oct 10, 2011

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3480 views

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01:10:47

The City Car

Ryan Chin,

William J. Mitchell

Oct 10, 2011

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6400 views

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01:00:53

The Invisible Forest: Microbes in the Sea

Penny Chisholm

Oct 10, 2011

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2947 views

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01:14:57

Human Augmentation

Hugh Herr,

John Hockenberry

Oct 10, 2011

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3520 views