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MIT World

MIT World

MIT World offers free streaming video lectures of speakers at events that occur at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, but most are in the area of technology, science, politics, business, and where these areas intersect. Frequent speakers include Noam Chomsky, Lester Thurow, Walter Lewin, along with single lectures from Thomas L. Friedman, Jack Welch, Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and many other leading thinkers and leaders in a variety of fields. All streaming video is of exceptional quality.


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by Winston Churchill
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At MIT's Mid-Century Convocation held in 1949-described as "an intellectual festival of monumental proportions"-Sir Winston Churchill gave a rousing keynote address titled Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress.

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by Noam Chomsky
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Renowned political activist and social critic Prof. Noam Chomsky reviews the origins and influences of global institutions created to preserve world order, following the end of the last world war half a century ago.

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by Bill Gates
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Gates describes some key issues his foundation is pursuing, where there is both “a great need and opportunity.” One critical area in what Gates calls the “world’s report card” is childhood deaths.

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by John Hume
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This lecture on the Philosophy of Conflict Resolution was conducted by John Hume at MIT in 2001. John Hume was awarded a Nobel Laureate for Peace for his work in his native Northern Ireland.

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by Howard Zinn
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Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world as a beacon of liberty.

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by Muhammad Yunus
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Imagine a bank that loans money based on a borrower’s desperate circumstances -- where, as Muhammad Yunus says, “the less you have, the higher priority you have.”

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by Barack Obama
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Barack Obama came to MIT not just to praise the Institute's leading edge energy research but to encourage all of America’s “heirs to a legacy of innovation” in their pursuit of discovery.

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