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1 hr 3 min - 11-Jan-08 2nd part of a course of Peter Gloor about Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarmcreativity taught in January 2008 as part of MIT IAP

By rss@youtube.com (sweetser) Part of the Stand-Up Physicist series, half hour chats by Doug Sweetser about his theoretical physics research. This is the third of six talks given to a very small audience at MIT during the Independent Activities Period (IAP). The topics covered are relativistic and classical gravity. T...

By Marcela R. '13 The planet itself is well equipped with space stations and rockets ready to launch. The stations are named MISTI, Go Global, D-Lab, IAP, MITPSC (Public Service Center), UROP, and many more names that just won't fit here. But there are an incredible number of rockets leaving each station ev...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Thursday, January 29, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Click the image above to view a trailer for the film. Manufactured Landscapes (2007) Follows photographer Edward Burtynsky, internationally acclaimed for h...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Friday, January 30, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Click the image above to view a trailer for the film. Street Fight (2005) Follows the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32 year-old Cory Booker and...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series continues: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Friday, January 16, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Choropampa: The Price Of Gold (2002) In June, 2000, 151 kilograms of liquid mercury spilled from a truck hauling it from a goldmine in the Andes. The spil...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Thursday, January 8, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Click the image above to view a trailer for the film. King Corn: a film (2006) Two college graduates plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most productive, most...

By Ryan Gray Tags:Current Mortgage Rates Looking for prospective employers? Preparing for a job interview? MIT Libraries can help! First, we’ll learn how to target potential employers– established companies, start-up firms — by field of interest and by location. Then, we’ll use MIT Libraries’ r...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: Thursday and Fridays during IAP; Thursday, January 8, 2009 - Friday, January 30, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Did you know that the Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning maintains an impressive DVD collection, with new tit...

By Ryan Gray Tags:Current Mortgage Rates Save time and get more out of your data. Learn how to use BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL), licensed by MIT Libraries. BIOBASE offers curated databases and analysis tools designed to help biomarker, systems biology and life science researchers accelerate di...

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By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Friday, January 23, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Click the image above to view a trailer for the film. Helvetica (2007) A documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, which looks at th...

By Ryan Gray Tags:Current Mortgage Rates Are you wondering what an RSS feed is and how it can help your research? Want to learn more about using GIS, EndNote or RefWorks? Need to find chemical information, social science data, or patents? Want to learn Japanese book-binding, improve your photograp...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Thursday, January 15, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 The Future Of Mud (2007) The Future of Mud is a tale of houses and lives in Djenne (2007) - Through the story of a mason in Djenne, this documentary examines an Afri...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Friday, January 9, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Click the image above to view a trailer for the film. The Greening of Southie (2008) Set in South Boston, The Greening of Southie is a documentary about Boston’s firs...

By Ryan Gray Need data to answer a research question? Interested in analyzing raw datasets with micro-level records about individual respondents? This hands-on workshop will familiarize you with the resources of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and t...