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MIT World offers free streaming audio and 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 and audio is of exceptional quality.

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30th Anniversary of The Inter-University Committee on International Migration
30th Anniversary of The Inter-University Committee on International Migration
by Mamphela Ramphele
Available on: Online Video

The world needs to come up with a coherent, comprehensive policy on migration, and in short order. Mamphela Ramphele is uniquely positioned to understand and shape such a policy for the new U.N. commission that’s studying the issue.

2.
Airline Security
Airline Security
by Arnold Barnett
Available on: Online Video

The events of 9/11 unleashed a flood of security measures across all dimensions of daily life, many of them aimed at averting repeat attacks on aircraft.

3.
Automobiles in Growing Economies of the Developing World
Automobiles in Growing Economies of the Developing World
by Ralph Gakenheimer
Available on: Online Video

A word of warning from inveterate traveler Ralph Gakenheimer: Never ride a bicycle around downtown Shanghai. The explosive growth of cars has resulted “in mayhem” for cyclists and pedestrians.

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Comparative Insights: Marshall Plan, Japan, and Iraq
Comparative Insights: Marshall Plan, Japan, and Iraq
by John W. Dower
Available on: Online Video

John Dower sees a world of difference between a shattered Japan that accepted U.S. occupation, and fractious Iraq, which continues to buck under American leadership.

5.
Consolidating Iraqi Democracy
Consolidating Iraqi Democracy
by Noah Feldman
Available on: Online Video

Can constitutional democracy unfold in Iraq? Noah Feldman details a hybrid model of democracy-building currently under way in Iraq whose outcome is far from certain.

6. Constructing a New Liberal Iraq
by Robert E. Looney
Available on: Online Video

Iraq’s oil reserves are the second largest in the world, yet according to both colloquium speakers, the country’s economic prospects are quite dim.

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Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video

U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series.

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Election 2004: Did the Media Fail?
Election 2004: Did the Media Fail?
by Terence Smith
Available on: Online Video

These two speakers share a strong sense of regret for missed opportunities during the 2004 election.

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Ending Global Poverty
Ending Global Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
Available on: Online Video

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.”

10. Faces at the Bottom of the Well
by Julian Bond
Available on: Online Video

In this stirring speech, Julian Bond takes on issues of poverty and economic equality and argues that the same forces that tried to derail the civil rights movement in the 1960's are still in place today.

11.
FDA's Strategies for Improving Health Care
FDA's Strategies for Improving Health Care
by Mark McClellan
Available on: Online Video

The FDA is a critical consumer protection agency, which assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products and medical devices…

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Forced Labor in the Globalized World
Forced Labor in the Globalized World
by Tom Ashbrook
Available on: Online Video

Before buying your next chocolate bar or sweatshirt, bear in mind its potential hidden cost: the forced labor of an impoverished worker.

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Forced Labor: The World Debate
Forced Labor: The World Debate
by Zeinab Badawi
Available on: Online Video

Jean-Robert Câdet lost his childhood, when at the age of four, he became a slave to a rich Port-au-Prince family

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Globalization and the Economic Downturn
Globalization and the Economic Downturn
by Lester Thurow
Available on: Online Video

Globalization is for the first time being hit by a global economic hard landing. What happens to globalization in the process?

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Globalization and the Future of Corporate Citizenship
Globalization and the Future of Corporate Citizenship
by Richard M. Locke
Available on: Online Video

Professor Locke discusses the opportunities and challenges that multinational companies face in a global economy.

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Ground Zero: The Design Competition
Ground Zero: The Design Competition
by Rafael Vinoly
Available on: Online Video

Rafael Vinoly and Frederic Schwartz led the THINK team, whose design was one of two finalists for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s World Trade Center design competition.

17.
Housing the Lowest Income Americans
Housing the Lowest Income Americans
by Lawrence Vale
Available on: Online Video

Vale provides a historical overview of public housing in America and shares insights from his most recent book Reclaiming Public Housing.

18.
How Can Communities, Cities and Regions Recover From Disaster?
How Can Communities, Cities and Regions Recover From Disaster?
by Lawrence Vale
Available on: Online Video

Are Cities Resilient? Disaster Recovery, Past and Present

19.
Human Rights Law in the Americas
Human Rights Law in the Americas
by Jennifer Harbury
Available on: Online Video

Jennifer Harbury tells the horrific story of her husband's capture, detainment, torture and execution in Guatemala at the hands of the Guatemalan military.

20.
Institutions vs. People
Institutions vs. People
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video

Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

21.
Institutions, Geography, and Growth
Institutions, Geography, and Growth
by Roberto Rigobon
Available on: Online Video

Three billion people on earth live on less than two dollars a day. A relative handful of us fare astronomically better. How do economists account for global “haves” and “have-nots”?

22.
Investigating the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
Investigating the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
by Philip Morrison
Available on: Online Video

In a just-published map of salt in seawater, Philip Morrison reads two lessons: the world is above all a physical place, so we need science to know about it; and science is telling us startling new things all the time.

23.
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
by Tom Ashbrook
Available on: Online Video

As the period of rebuilding Iraq begins, this panel takes on the big questions of political systems and religion based value systems—can Islam and democracy co-exist in the Arab world?

24.
Knowledge Based Economy and Global Competition
Knowledge Based Economy and Global Competition
by Charles Vest
Available on: Online Video

Charles Vest discusses the Knowledge Based Economy and Education.

25.
Living with Catastrophic Terrorism
Living with Catastrophic Terrorism
by Lewis Branscomb
Available on: Online Video

After the terrorists attack of September 11, three Academies sponsored a major study of the role that science and technology might play in countering the threat of catastrophic terrorism in the United States.


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