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MIT 15.371/10.807/2.907 Innovation Teams Fall 2024
Instructor: Luis Perez-Breva
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Uploaded 29-09-25

What is a technology? It may mean different things depending on your perspective, and one technology can lead to many products.

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MIT 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2021
Instructor: Markus Klute
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Uploaded 08-11-21

How general relativity can patch together different reference points that can each be described in special relativity.

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MIT 15.371/10.807/2.907 Innovation Teams Fall 2024
Instructor: Luis Perez-Breva
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Uploaded 29-09-25

How to make ideas tangible to move from a "bad" idea to something productive.

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MIT 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2021
Instructor: Markus Klute
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Uploaded 08-11-21

We discuss how do objects contract and the spacecraft-on-a-rope paradox.

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MIT 15.371/10.807/2.907 Innovation Teams Fall 2024
Instructor: Luis Perez-Breva
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Uploaded 29-09-25

Many underused or underutilized technologies are awaiting novel uses and innovations.

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MIT 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2021
Instructor: Markus Klute
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Uploaded 08-11-21

Einstein's postulates are not axioms and need to be tested. We review some of the experimental evidence.

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MIT 15.371/10.807/2.907 Innovation Teams Fall 2024
Instructor: Luis Perez-Breva
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YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63FBm4EY4n6fh8dcUAnetzi

Uploaded 29-09-25

The famous "garage" origin story of the Apple II is discussed to outline the mindset gap we have today about how to build a business based on an innovative technology.

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MIT 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2021
Instructor: Markus Klute
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Uploaded 08-11-21

Discussion of the course outline and setup, grading scheme, and first introduction to the concept of relativity.

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MIT 15.371/10.807/2.907 Innovation Teams Fall 2024
Instructor: Luis Perez-Breva
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YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63FBm4EY4n6fh8dcUAnetzi

Uploaded 29-09-25

What you start with does not necessarily have to be a new, small, or unproven idea.

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EPISODE 1: Sketching a Picture of the Mind with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher

Uploaded 17-11-21

Nancy Kanwisher, founding member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, describes the effort to understand the mind as “the grandest scientific quest of all time,” partly because it seeks to answer fundamental questions that all people ponder from time to time: What is knowledge? How does memory work? How do we form our perceptions of the world? In this episode, Prof. Kanwisher gives a nutshell history of her field and describes how scientists use imaging techniques to study the brain structures involved in different cognitive skills. She also reflects on the usefulness of personal anecdotes as a teaching technique in courses like her 9.13 The Human Brain. Kanwisher believes scientists have a moral obligation to share the results of their research with the world—which may explain why she has published her course materials for 9.13 on OpenCourseWare—but she doesn’t see that sharing as an onerous responsibility. “The stuff I do is easily shareable with people,” she says, “but it’s also fun. It’s really fun to get an idea across and see somebody resonate to it.”

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Share your teaching ideas and insights with Nancy Kanwisher
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPxja-yztyxaqNoo6G-x28wR_uurs6w0NIsNeNt0cANk7T1Q/viewform

Professor Kanwisher’s course on OCW (9.13 The Human Brain)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-13-the-human-brain-spring-2019? utm_source=youtube and utm_medium=shownotes and utm_campaign=chalkradio and utm_term=s3e1

Professor Kanwisher at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research
https://mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/nancy-kanwisher/

Professor Kanwisher’s series of short videos on brain science
https://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu

Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions
https://www.sessions.blue

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