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Chicago Tribune

"For all its computer-generated theatrical dazzle – created by Machover's Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab -- it is at heart a poignant family drama, about how we connect, and how the choices we make in life impact on those we care about and who care about us."
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CNN

"The fact is that, since its founding in 1971, Southwest has performed 16 million flights without a single passenger fatality." - Opinion piece by Arnold Barnett, George Eastman professor of management science
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Boston.com

"Using more than two miles of toilet tissue and one infinite corridor at MIT, a group from St. Mark's School claim to have wiped out the world record for folding paper Sunday."
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The New York Times

"So far no country has reached a conclusion on the safety requirements for nuclear plants following the Fukushima accident, according to Mujid S. Kazimi, director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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New Scientist

"The user touches a data item they wish to copy from a device, conceptually saving it in the user's body ... Next, the user touches the other device to which they want to paste the saved content."
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Wired

“In 2001, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester, business professors at MIT, conducted a real life auction for tickets to a Boston Celtics game. Half the participants in the auction were informed that they had to pay with cash; the other half had to pay with a credit card.”
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The Boston Globe

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu ... and several Obama administration officials visited MIT yesterday to meet with business leaders about revamping federal policies to support innovation."
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The Washington Post

Andrew Lo, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, discusses behavioral finance and investment strategy during unpredictable events.
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Wired

“(MIT professor Brian) Wardle and a team of researchers have developed a way of using heat-sensitive cameras to detect internal damage to composite structures.”
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The Boston Globe

"Researchers, with clever experiments at these museums and elsewhere, are finding that young children have a surprisingly sophisticated intuitive grasp of probabilities, which they use to make inferences."
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cnet news

"Researchers from Harvard and MIT have designed a microfluidic device that uses porous 'forests' of carbon nanotubes to detect individual cancer cells or viruses such as HIV in a blood sample."
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WBUR

"A recent report by MIT found that the school has made substantial advances in eliminating gender bias in the past decade."
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Mass High Tech

"A new device that can detect single cancer cells in blood, potentially telling doctors if cancer has spread, has been developed jointly by professors at Harvard Medical School and MIT."
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CBS News

"Drawing from nature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniel Nocera thinks he can draw cheap and clean energy from water."
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The New York Times

"The Malaysian government has announced a partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to set up a new supply-chain education and research center in Shah Alam outside of Kuala Lumpur."
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