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Reporter’s Notebook: Jules Verne, desperado?

The book cover of an early version of Jules Verne's 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'

MIT historian of science Rosalind Williams on the overlooked legacy of Jules Verne, anti-globalization visionary

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  • Matthew Day Jackson talks about “The Immeasurable Distance,” an exhibition of his work now on view at the List Visual Arts Center.
  • Thought
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  • Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Anthropology, discusses what makes an artisan cheese.
  • "Mind, Hand, World".
  • The MIT Center for International Studies undertakes research, teaching, international education, and public and policy engagement on a broad range of ...
  • Apollo's legacy.
  • In June, MIT hosted "Giant Leaps," a gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo's voyage to the moon — and to explore how that missio...
  • Doing anthropology.
  • Cultural Anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand — and act in — the world. But what, exactly, is it that Cult...
  • The way David Macaulay works.
  • During your tour inside David Macaulay’s imagination, prepare to soar over Rome’s great monuments, raft within the human body’s circulatory syst...
  • Health care policy.
  • In an energetic talk delivered prior to the U.S. presidential election, Jonathan Gruber provides a useful breakdown of the two candidates’ remedies ...
  • "Newton and the Counterfeiter".
  • "The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist"

    Who knew that one of mankind’s greatest scientists also worked as a gumsho...
  • The inner history of devices.
  • Contemporary science has done a great disservice to Sigmund Freud, suggests Sherry Turkle, who believes the psychoanalytic tradition can teach us much...

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What’s new at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?

Chris Csikszentmihályi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media, hosts this presentation by the MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media

Standing ovation at Carnegie Hall for MLK Visiting Scholar Donal Fox

World premiere of his concerto "Peace Out"

MIT global web site seeks visions for Jerusalem

Site is loaded with interactive tools and resources to help foster dialogue, ideas, and solutions for cities of conflict

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