DIY IAP: Cambridge Nights and Big Ideas

Where ever you are spending your January nights, you can drop in on interesting conversations happening right here in Cambridge. Some MIT Media Lab folks have launched a laid-back interview series where innovative thinkers share ideas that excite them and  their personal perspectives.

So for this Do-It Yourself IAP moment, you are invited to watch these laid-back interview videos online at Cambridge Nights: Conversation about a Life in Science.

Don't Confuse Schooling with Education

Economist Lant Pritchett, professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, on education, migration, and development.

What's Universal about Cities?

Luis Bettencourt, Los Alamos National Lab researcher and professor at the San Francisco Institute, discusses the science of cities and scientific productivity.

Applying Physical Laws to Biology

Physicist Geoffrey West, distinguished professor and former president of the Santa Fe Institute and a fellow of the American Physical Society, talks about the fractal nature of the metabolism and the scaling laws of life.

Read the New York Times piece on Cambridge Nights, a collaboration between MIT Media Lab ABC Career Development Professor César A. Hidalgo and videographers Paula Aguilera, and Jonathan Williams.