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Microengineered Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering

Bioengineer Ali Khademhosseini on creating new biomaterials, microengineering, and mimicking embryonic development

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Architecture of Multicore

MIT Prof. Anant Agarwal on parallel computing, problems of processors' communication, and research funding

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Search for Extraterrestrial Genomes

Astrobiologist Christopher Carr on the Late Heavy Bombardment, deinococcus radiodurans, and the polymerase chain reaction

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Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age

Professor Mitchel Resnick on ways to transform education, the Lego Mindstorms, and the idea of constructionist learning

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The Role of Measurement Tools in Science

Physicist Ronald Walsworth on quantum mechanical transitions inside atoms, blue and red shift for GPS, and user-friendly precise systems

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General Anesthesia

Professor Emery Brown of MIT on what has to be monitored during anesthesia, side effects of inhalational anesthetics, intravenous drugs, opioids and narcotics

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Changing Nature of Knowledge in the Internet Epoch

Harvard Senior Researcher David Weinberger on how filtering on the Internet is organized, and the web of knowledge which is completely public and incredibly rich

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Digital Humanities

Harvard Professor Jeffrey Schnapp on print as a tremendously powerful medium, dynamic media forms, and the World Wide Web as the defining public space of our time

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Measuring Chirality

Physicist John Doyle on ibuprophen's capacity to relief pain, orientation of dipole moments, and 'handedness' of molecules

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Teaching Online

Physicist Walter Lewin on massive open online courses, OpenCourseWare at MIT, and how it all started from "help sessions" in 1980s