MIT Centennial Round Table Presents-ds = dQ/T and YOU! (1961)

A roster of luminaries including Jerome Wiesner, Jerrold Zacharias, and John Burchard of MIT discuss the significance of science and technology together with Raymond Aron of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Isidor Rabi of Columbia University, and Sir Eric Ashby of Cambridge University. Introduced by MIT President Julius A. Stratton and hosted by Charles Collingwood, this round table discussion was filmed as part of the Tomorrow television series produced by CBS Television Network for MIT on occasion of MIT's Centennial in 1961. Film to HD transfer courtesy of MIT+150. MIT Museum Collections.

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Interesting to hear Gerald Zachariah talk about what we now know as Dunning-Kruger at 14:30

[@Tadesan]

I think a twelve year old is much more ready to be exposed to something like the scientific method than to something like "romance", or "power", or "destiny", or other themes expressed in the arts. I like the idea of a twelve year old knowing how to study something carefully and to write observations down, rather than a twelve year old looking forward to prince charming and being saved from unconsciousness by being kissed.

[@JereForsyth]

There is no way in the United States in our time that the "Scientific Method" can be taught. There is truth there.

[@ih8tusernam3s]

We need more types like these in politics.

[@miguelmouta5372]

Santa Claus believers.

[@RichardLucas]

The President who introduces the film is an exceptionally shifty-eyed fellow. My first instinct is that this man is not to be trusted, though I know that's silly and can't really be defended. Still, that's the honest report from my cold-take machine.

[@ArumesYT]

And you wanted to share this with the world because...

[@RichardLucas]

@@ArumesYT Because I am free and self-authorized, requiring niether permission nor forgiveness.

[@ArumesYT]

​@@RichardLucas Just the low reasoning level I expected. Thanks for confirming.

[@RichardLucas]

@@ArumesYT Any time.

[@rushmore1539]

lol