The Washington Post
"The first spoken 'I love you' is a relationship milestone. Josh Ackerman, a psychologist who teaches at MIT, set out to study these early declarations of devotion."
In the Media
BBC
"Lead author of the paper, Monte Winslow, of the David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, said understanding the role of the gene may help scientists develop new drugs."
The Wall Street Journal
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has alliances with half a dozen schools, recently teamed up with Sabanci School of Management in Turkey."
Forbes.com
"The pieces struck me a “quick hit” commentary on our increasing dependence on technology and social media — something which periodically causes us societal anxiety, addressed recently by MIT technologist Sherry Turkle in her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other."
The New York Times blogs
"Charles W. Forsberg, the executive director of M.I.T.’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project, notes that if you simply put a teacup of water in a microwave oven, some of the water molecules will come apart. But there are reasons, he and others say, that Fukushima is particularly vulnerable."
WBUR
The MIT Dome dressed up as R2D2 from Star Wars. A mock moon lander on top of the dome. Even better, an MIT police car on top of the dome.
The Wall Street Journal
"The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is still far from resolved."
The Wall Street Journal blogs
"Cutting research funding to narrow the budget deficit would hurt innovation now and for decades to come, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield said to venture capitalists Thursday."
Forbes.com
"Neri Oxman, an architect and professor at the MIT Media Lab, is working on one such set of research — using 3-D printing technology for buildings."
The Wall Street Journal blogs
Ernest Moniz, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of MIT’s Energy Initiative, gave four “very sure bets” about the effects of events at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.
The Guardian
"French economist Esther Duflo thinks poverty can be alleviated or even eradicated with the right policies. All it takes is for politicians to 'translate research into action,' implementing programmes that have been shown to work."
CNET
“Despite having a plethora of wireless technologies built-in — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc. — there's no simple way to transfer "clippings" of data from one device to another. But a new research project at MIT called Sparsh is aiming to fix that oversight.”
Boston.com
“The keys to revitalizing East Boston’s business district may lie in building bridges among its ethnically and linguistically diverse populations and finding solutions to space issues in this dense urban area.”
The Wall Street Journal blogs
“The German government’s official spokesman found himself forced to defend his decision to announce official government business via Twitter.”
The Boston Globe
“The recent growth, which MIT pursued even through the recession, has injected millions of dollars into the city, augmented the university’s involvement in the life sciences, and remade once-gritty neighborhoods into one of the prime biotechnology and research centers in the country.”