Believe it or not, computer games can be educational. Prof. Eric Klopfer's Computer Games and Simulations for Investigation and Education is a project-based look at how we learn from interactive computer environments. Be sure to check out the student projects in the Projects section.

MIT Professor Ron Rivest has helped develop a cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts. Prof. Rivest covers cryptography in Network and Computer Security on OCW.

Embarking on a project? Check out Project Management, which covers basic tools, skills and the knowledge necessary to manage a project from inception to completion.

Scientists at the Broad Institute have mapped the genome of the domestic horse. The work could reveal how horses were domesticated, as well as similarities between horses and humans.

Want to learn more about DNA, genomes and biology in general? Head over to the full video lectures of 7.012 Introduction to Biology.

MIT and Volkswagen have teamed up to create the AIDA (Affective, Intelligent Driving Agent), a combination personal robot and intelligent navigation system: imagine a car that lets you know the fuel is low just as you're driving by a gas station. Fundamental to this device is Global Positioning System, which is covered in detail in Prof. Thomas Herring's freshman seminar, GPS: Where Are You? on OCW.

The MIT News Office takes a look at a notorious problem in theoretical computer science, the assertion that P = NP. Professor Michael Sipser tells the News Office that this concept "is important for deepening our understanding of computational complexity."

The concept is covered in detail in Sipser's Theory of Computation, and in particular in his book Introduction to the Theory of Computation (find a link to his book in the Readings section of the course).

MIT has launched a new site focused on dialogue and action to promote an inclusive community. Watch how issues of gender and cultural identity play out in Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S..

President Barack Obama visits MIT Friday, October 23 to tour a research lab and address the campus community on American leadership in clean energy.

MIT has long been a leader in energy research. You can explore many of MIT's energy-related courses on OCW.

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By listening in on the brains of sleeping rats, MIT professor Matt Wilson has found solid evidence that sleep plays a vital role in learning and memory. Learn more about learning and memory in Prof. Wilson's Neural Basis of Learning and Memory.

MIT researchers have presented a new algorithm that could bring efficiency to systems of linear equations. It has promising implications for image, video and signal processing; robot control; and weather modeling.

One of the authors of the paper, Prof. Seth Lloyd, leads students through the ultimate limits of communication and computation in Information and Entropy.

Professor JoAnne Stubbe has been awarded a National Medal of Science for her work in the mechanism of enzymes involved in DNA replication and repair. During the ceremony, President Obama said, "Science is more essential for our prosperity, our security, and our health, and our way of life than it has ever been."

Foster your own scientific curiosity with OCW's free, open resources such as Dr. Stubbe's own Biological Chemistry II.

MIT Admission's student blogs offer a window into life as an MIT student, often outside the classroom. MIT OpenCourseWare is a window inside the classroom, particularly courses such as Single Variable Calculus, an introductory calculus course with full video lectures.

Members of the MIT Graphics Group have demonstrated that combining several low-quality exposures with different focal depths can yield a sharper photo than a single, higher-quality exposure. The finding lays the groundwork for the next generation of digital cameras.

Graphics Group member Frédo Durand's Computer Graphics offers a broad introduction to computer graphics, including hardware, algorithms and software.

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This week the MIT News Office talks with MIT Professor Phillip Sharp about the need for a new biology initiative to accelerate breakthroughs that could solve some of society's most pressing problems. Sharp's Cell Biology: Structure and Functions of the Nucleus is available on MIT OpenCourseWare.

MIT economist Esther Duflo, whose research has helped change the way governments and aid organizations address global poverty, has been named as a recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship - the prominent "genius" grant for innovative work. Her course Development Economics: Microeconomic Issues and Policy Models is available on OCW.

In the next few weeks, you'll notice some changes to our course home pages. Some of these changes will make the courses easier to navigate, and some of them will allow us to share messages about OCW and MIT. Learn more about these changes in a letter from OCW Executive Director Cecilia d'Oliveira.

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MIT senior Oliver Yeh has sent a camera into near-space - and received beautiful photos - for the cost of a standard engineering textbook.

Want to tackle your own backyard experiment? Start with a foundation in programming such as Building Programming Experience, a two-week bootcamp for students who lack a background in programming.

Photo courtesy of NASA.

We've just added complete video lectures to Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, which introduces students to the role computation plays in solving problems using Python™. The course is aimed at students with little or no programming experience.

Taking Calculus this term? The complete text - including instructor's manual and student study guide - of Gilbert Strang's Calculus is available on OCW.

Photo by ifranz on Flickr. Calculus can be used to calculate total distance covered at varied speeds.

The class of 2013 is getting settled on campus and many of them will soon be taking the introductory course, Principles of Chemical Science. You can learn along online with our complete video lectures from Fall 2008.

Researchers at MIT have found that rats use a mental instant replay of their actions to help them decide what to do next, shedding new light on how animals and humans learn and remember. The author of the study, Professor Matthew Wilson, led graduate students through an intensive 4-week course on neurophysiological experiments during IAP 2001.

Photo of stenciled rats in Killarney by celesteh on Flickr.

A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water as gracefully as the real thing. In Introduction to Ocean Science and Engineering, students learn the fundamental aspects of science and engineering necessary for exploring, observing, and utilizing the oceans. The course features a video and photos of students field testing their projects.

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Technology Review has named their top young innovators, including Jose Gomez-Marquez, whom TR named "humanitarian of the year." You can view some of Gomez-Marquez's work in the Projects section of D-Lab: Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good.

Photo of Jose Gomez-Marquez by AIDG on Flickr.

The New York Times reports that a collaboration between researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge has resulted in a small, simple solution to repairing knee injuries. Team member Lorna Gibson's The Nature of Engineering investigates why similar shapes occur in so many natural things and how physics changes the shape of nature.

MIT Professor Richard Binzel says Jupiter's powerful gravitational field plays a role in protecting Earth from impacts such as the one that recently caused a new dark mark on the planet. Prof. Binzel provides many fascinating details about our nearest neighbors in The Solar System.

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In what may be the first detailed molecular-based multi-scale analysis of the role of a materials' failure in human disease, Professor Markus Buehler and other MIT researchers have used "materiomics" to study the tiny rifts that make up brittle bone disease.

Buehler's Introduction to Modeling and Simulation explores the basic concepts of computer modeling and simulation in science and engineering.

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Now through January 4, 2010, visit the Compton Gallery at MIT to see Chris Linder's photos of the Arctic. The photos portray an expedition to learn more about the Arctic undersea mountains. Inspired by these photos, you can learn more about the sea in Introduction to Observational Physical Oceanography.

Chandra Astrophysics Institute provides students in grades 9-11 the training required to undertake astronomy projects. Students in this course develop communication and collaboration skills, as well as a background in science and technology. Typical projects undertaken by students cover supernova explosions, black holes, and colliding galaxies.

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In Music Composition, students produce at least one substantive original composition, which is performed in public by the end of the term. The Projects section includes links to these performances on iTunes U.

This hands-on course offered by the Sloan School of Management provides managers with the communication skills they need when presenting to large audiences. Topics include intercultural communication, interactive presentations, and the interviewing process.

A former member of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now Draper Laboratory) where the guidance and navigation system for Apollo was developed, Richard Battin has taught Astrodynamics at MIT since the 1960s.

The course covers celestial mechanics, orbit determination, mission planning and other fundamental concepts necessary for space navigation.

Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon. Even as we celebrate this milestone, the question of our next space milestone hangs in the air. But whether we chose again to go to the Moon or turn instead to Mars, new technologies like GPS, the ISS, commercial launch, and satellite-based communications create enormous legal and political complications for any activity in near-Earth orbit and beyond. Space Policy Seminar covers the history of this issue and considers ways to handle it in the future - wherever that future may lead.

Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14, commemorating the storming of the Bastille in 1789. The day symbolizes the rise of modern France. In Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon, Prof. Ravel covers the unique French experience starting with the reign of the Sun King through the rule of Napoléon Bonaparte: Absolutism, Enlightenment, Revolution, and Empire.

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NextLab is a hands-on year-long design course in which students research, develop and deploy mobile technologies for the next billion mobile users in developing countries. This course features over 100 videos documenting the development of seven team-based projects, along with most class lectures and student-led discussions of assigned class readings.

MIT Mathematics Professor Arthur Mattuck wrote this guide to recitation teaching at MIT. During a typical recitation section, a teaching assistant meets with a small group of students to review the most recent lecture, expand on the concepts, work through practice problems, and conduct a discussion with the students. The title comes from the notion that getting an education at MIT is like trying to drink from a fire hose.

Scientists have found gas jets on Saturn's Enceladus that could signify an underground water supply: a possible hint of life on the moon.

Extrasolar Planets: Physics and Detection Techniques covers the basic principles of planet atmospheres and interiors, and an introduction to the feasibility of the search for planets with habitable conditions.

Pharmaceuticals have cured diseases, started wars and ended careers. This course explores how drugs can elicit a range of medicinal and recreational effects. Topics include over-the-counter drugs and "dietary supplements," drugs of abuse, treatments for neurological disorders, psychiatric medications, and many more.

What do we know about the formation of planets? This course looks at the compositional and physical processes of planet formation based on observations from our own solar system and those we've glimpsed beyond the reaches of our Sun.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's goal is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. OCW has just published a five-day executive training program on evaluating social programs. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies.

Image courtesy of Kunjal Shah.

MIT Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko opened a solo video installation last week inside the Polish pavilion at the Venice exhibition about the plight of immigrants in Europe. Wodiczko is using high-definition, large-scale images to give a voice to immigrants from Chechnya, Ukraine, Libya, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Morocco who seek work in Europe.

Wodiczko's Interrogative Design Workshop asks important questions about frank and open speaking, and how artists and designers can best partake of the practice.

MIT is hosting a celebration to honor those who made the Apollo Program a success. On this anniversary, visit Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System, a course that explores the Apollo project in detail, including guest lectures from MIT-affiliated engineers involved in the missions.

Generous donations by the MIT Class of 2009 and Martin Tang, SM '72 have made possible the production of new video lectures for 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science Fall 2008. These videos will be available on OCW later this summer.

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The 50th anniversary of the smoot is being honored with a new plaque on the Harvard/MIT Bridge in Cambridge. Named for Oliver Smoot '62, a smoot is a unit of length equal to approximately 66 and 11/16 inches. Using Smoot as a measure, the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity marked the entire length of the bridge in 1958. The bridge is 364.4 smoots, plus or minus one ear.

Of course, smoots can measure many things. In session 21 of The Art and Approximation of Science and Engineering, one learns how to find the length of the radius of a hydrogen atom. How many smoots is a hydrogen atom? The radius is 0.5 angstroms (0.5 e-10 m). A smoot is 1.6939 m. Thus, the radius of a hydrogen atom is about 0.3 e-10 smoots.

Photo of the Harvard/MIT Bridge by Andrea Mercado on Flickr.

A new system developed by Gari Clifford and colleagues could allow much earlier monitoring of the fetal heartbeat than is currently available, providing early indication of distress. Key to this success is digital signal processing, which Dr. Clifford covers in Biomedical Signal and Image Processing.

The slow and painful recovery under way in the beleaguered U.S. housing market probably won't be complete for another two years, says Professor of Economics and Urban Studies William Wheaton , director of MIT's Center for Real Estate. His course Real Estate Economics focuses developing an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that shape and influence markets for real property.

A compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s has been transferred back to the Institute from MITRE Corporation. Project Whirlwind was a precursor to modern-day computers, first tackling parallel digit processing, random-access and magnetic core memory.

Take a look back at the early years of computing in The History of Computing, which covers the early use of computers as scientific instruments.

Photo by the MITRE Corporation

Researchers at MIT have completed the most comprehensive climate modeling to date, and the news is startling: without rapid and massive action, the Earth's climate will get much hotter. The study uses the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model, a tool described in Global Climate Change: Economics, Science and Policy, Spring 2008.

Image courtesy of MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

We've just published SP.292 Writing Workshop, Spring 2008, which brings the total number of courses on MIT OpenCourseWare to 1,900!

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MIT engineers have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold could offer a potential new treatment for sports injuries and other cartilage damage, such as arthritis, says Lorna Gibson, MIT professor and co-leader of the research team.

Design of Medical Devices and Implants covers design, safety testing, and clinical trials of implants and other medical devices.

Photo by MIT Professor Lorna Gibson.

MIT researchers are finding many uses for graphene, a form of carbon first identified as a theoretical possibility as early as 1947. Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus and others first worked with multiple layers of graphene in the 1960s when many scientists were saying that such an ultra-thin sheet of matter could never be found or even made.

Dresselhaus gave two guest lectures as part of 2.57 Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes, a course that covers energy levels, energy transport, and applications of nano-and microtechnology.

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Jeffrey Hoffman is a former space shuttle astronaut and professor of practice in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In "3 Questions," Hoffman talks about what the repair crew can expect during the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission on May 11.

For more from Prof. Hoffman, check out Aircraft Systems Engineering.

Image courtesy of NASA.

More than 150 robots, in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and capabilities, will battle it out on May 6 and 7 to see which can collect the most soda cans and simulated bales of trash and return then to a recycling facility all in under a minute. The matchups are the culmination of 2.007, a required class for sophomores in mechanical engineering, and it's an MIT tradition that goes back more than two decades.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's talk at MIT is among the inaugural events at the new Dalai Lama Center For Ethics & Transformative Values. Why MIT? WBUR's Bob Oakes asked just this question when he interviewed Tenzin Priyadarshi, MIT's Buddhist chaplain.

For a good look at the complex and important issues of ethics and politics, try American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices.

Photo by Jan Michael Ihl.

MIT chemists have synthesized a compound that could open the door to new drug treatments for cancer. Mohammad Movassaghi, associate professor of chemistry, said his team was drawn to the compound not just for its anti-cancer potential but also for its fascinating chemical structure. Learn more about Advanced Organic Chemistry from Prof. Movassaghi in 5.43 Advanced Organic Chemistry.

In this video from Boston.com, MIT sophomore Keone Hon tackles some mathematical questions about the Boston Marathon. "A Fermi equation," Hon says, "is a kind of street-fighting mathematics technique." For more on the art of guessing results and solving problems, check out Street Fighting Mathematics.

Laszlo Tisza, physics professor emeritus and an expert in quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, died on Wednesday, April 15. He was 101. Earlier this year, OCW published materials from his 1976 course Applied Geometric Algebra after Samuel Gasster '77 rediscovered his notes from the course. Professor Tisza will be greatly missed by MIT and the physics community.

This rich course teaches the fundamentals of finite element analysis of solids, structures and fluids. It contains a full set of lecture notes as well as student projects created using ADINA. And we think the submarine model is pretty great.

Policy makers gathered at MIT Monday to discuss promoting clean energy, combatting climate change, and creating new "green-collar" jobs. The forum comes ahead of what is expected to be a major debate in Congress over energy, global warming and economic policy.

MIT has long been a leader in energy research. We've organized courses on OCW that specifically address energy topics to make studying them along with us easy.

Associate Professor Patrick Doyle is among 180 artists, scientists and scholars awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The foundation selects fellows on the basis of "stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment." Doyle reports he will use his fellowship to develop soft functional microparticles. You can learn about scaling laws and the methods of continuum mechanics from Dr. Doyle in Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics.

Connections is a new exhibit from the Sociable Media Group that explores the social potential of new communication technologies. The exhibit, which runs through September 13 at the MIT Museum, includes several panel discussions and lectures. The first happens Tuesday, April 7 at 6pm and features Judith Donath, whose course Techno-Identity: Who We Are and How We Perceive Ourselves and Others, looks at the mutable concept that is human identity and the ever changing impact on our identities by science and technology.

The Beeline Festival starts this weekend. Hosted at the Broad Institute, the Festival gathers an exciting variety of musicians from across the country (and sweetens the deal with ice cream, wine and local honey).

The festival includes a performance by Ensemble Robot and will feature pieces by Paul Lansky. Lansky's "Mild und Leise" is sampled in Radiohead's "Idioteque" on the album Kid A. Both tracks, notes on the use of the sample and an incredible variety of other resources such as these are available in the Listening section of Composing with Computers I.

Visualizing Cultures has won this year's Franklin R. Buchanan prize from the Association for Asian Studies.

The prize recognizes an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia designed for any educational level. Visualizing Cultures was launched in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning.

At this year's TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), MIT professor Pattie Maes demonstrated a "sixth sense device." The small, low-cost device enables wearers to interact between the real world and the world of data.

For more on the complexities of human-computer interaction, try Ambient Intelligence, a graduate-level course that focuses on understanding enabling technologies and studying applications and experiments.

6.111 Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory: Often called "digital death" by MIT students, this course is reputed to be one of the most demanding classes at MIT. The course covers digital design topics such as digital logic, sequential building blocks, finite-state machines, FPGAs, timing and synchronization, and comes with a "nerd kit" for completing labs and projects.

The 4th annual student-led MIT Energy Conference gathered technologists, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers and energy professionals who are defining our global energy future. The conference site has links to the proceedings and presentations.

5.92 Energy, Environment, and Society provides first-year students a way to make direct contributions to energy innovations at MIT and in local communities through a project-based approach to learning.

Diana Henderson, professor of literature and dean for curriculum and faculty support, has been named a MacVicar fellow in recognition for her innovative teaching practices and accomplishments. One of her students told the nominating committee, "She doesn't lecture, she engages."

Henderson's Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Churchill asks difficult, provocative questions about two British dramatists who are themselves, often, difficult and provocative.

On Wednesday, March 4, six MIT professors gathered for the Seventh Annual Latke-Hamentashen Debate, a lively event that examines the virtues and shortcomings of the latke and the hamentashen. As in years past, the debate resulted in a deadlock and must begin anew next year.

All seven professors taking part in the debate have courses on MIT OpenCourseWare:

Moderator:
Hazel Sive, Professor of Biology

Team Hamentashen:
Tom Leighton PhD '81, Professor of Applied Mathematics
Jeffrey I. Steinfeld '62, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
Jeremy M. Wolfe PhD '81, Lecturer in BCS & Concourse

Team Latke:
David Jones, Professor in STS
Keith Nelson, Professor of Chemistry
Donald Sadoway, Professor of Materials Chemistry

Researchers at MIT's Sensory Communication Group are working on a new generation of tactile devices, which translate sound waves into vibrations that can be felt by the skin. These devices can help fill gaps left by lip reading.

For more on the science of sound, try 6.551J / HST.714J Acoustics of Speech and Hearing.

A team of researchers led by George Barbastathis, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is developing the basic principles of "nano-origami," a new technique that allows engineers to fold nanoscale materials into simple 3-D structures.

For more on modeling 3-D micro-electrical-mechanical structure, try Barbastathis's 2.004 Systems, Modeling, and Control II, Fall 2007.

Patricia Christie has been teaching Kitchen Chemistry every spring since 2000. In an interview with the MIT News Office, Christie explains how her course teaches students the chemistry behind cooking (and whips up a batch of Death by Chocolate cookies).

The Kauffman Foundation released a study this week stating that if "the active companies founded by MIT graduates formed an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation at least the seventeenth-largest economy in the world." In Massachusetts alone, companies founded by MIT alumni represent 26 percent of the sales of all Massachusetts companies.

What does it take to organize successful technology-driven innovation in entrepreneurial firms? Find out in 15.351 Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Joaquin Blaya, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has introduced the use of PDAs at a health care clinic in Lima, Peru to help workers there track testing for drug-resistant forms of TB. "You can monitor patients in a more timely way. It also prevents results from getting lost," says Blaya.

Blaya started the project after taking one of MIT's D-Lab courses. The most recent D-Lab on OCW is Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good, Spring 2007.

A 10-year, $100 million grant from the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute Foundation will bring together scientists and engineers from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard in a bold new initiative to develop an AIDS vaccine.

Key MIT faculty involved in the Ragon Institute will include Hidde Ploegh, who teaches Cell Biology. The course deals with the biology of cells of higher organisms.

Samuel Gasster (MIT class of 1977) recently discovered that he still had his carefully copied lecture notes from Applied Geometric Algebra, Spring 1976. The course was taught by Professor of Physics Emeritus Laszlo Tisza who, at age 101, graciously agreed to publish these materials on MIT OpenCourseWare.

The Cambridge Science Festival and the MIT Museum are daring students between the ages of 5 and 18 years old to take the Curiosity Challenge.

Curious future scientists and innovative technologists can find more resources at MIT OpenCourseWare's Highlights for High School. Build stuff, study for AP exams, or check out courses developed for high school students by MIT students.

MIT Sloan has launched a web site offering case studies, teaching videos and other innovative instructional resources to anyone with access to the Internet. The site was developed to provide access to MIT Sloan's most current work and developments at no charge.

15.963 Advanced Strategy on MIT OpenCourseWare uses one of the newly-available case studies in a survey of the roots of long-term competitive advantage in unusually successful firms. You can see the case study used in context in session 16 in the Readings section.

Two researchers at MIT - Charles H. Stewart III and Stephen Ansolabehere of the Department of Political Science - have found that race played a significant role in the election of Barack Obama. The research suggests that Obama won, in part, because the percentage of blacks voting Democratic rose from 88 percent in 2004 to 95 percent in 2008, and because of a significant move by Hispanics to the Democratic camp.

For a look at race and ethnicity in the larger context of politics around the world, try Melissa Nobles's 17.523 Ethnicity and Race in World Politics.

Xavier de Souza Briggs, associate professor of sociology and urban planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has been named associate director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Briggs's 11.201 Gateway: Planning Action, Fall 2007 provides a rich foundation in City Planning for first-year graduate students. The course uses real-world cases to highlight persistent dilemmas in city planning.

MIT will mark the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin this week with a conference January 22 - 24. Learn more about Darwin's controversial and groundbreaking work in 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2003.

The New York Times has featured MIT's new approach to introductory physics, in which students meet in small, high-tech classrooms to understand the basics of classical mechanics and electromagnetism. These courses are available on OCW: 8.01T Physics I, Fall 2004, and 8.02T Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2005.

Three MIT economists - Esther Duflo, Amy Finkelstein and Iván Werning - have been singled out by The Economist magazine as among the world's eight best young economists, who are "making a big splash in their discipline and beyond."

Duflo's 14.74 Foundations of Development Policy covers the different facets of human development: education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms and institutions.

In 14.471 Public Economics I covers a wide variety of tax-related topics, including ax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings.

MIT freshman Ben Gulak has invented the Uno, an electric motorcycle that has its two wheels side by side. It balances using a computer and gyroscope, and maneuvers as the rider's body shifts. Learn more about how gyroscopes work in lecture 24 of 8.01 Classical Mechanics