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Los Angeles Times

"But a new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that these people still have trouble using theory of mind to make complex moral judgments. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recounted the following story to 54 subjects (roughly half of them diagnosed with high-functioning autism) and asked them to rate the morality of the main actor."
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Boston Herald (AP)

Economist warns on U.S. budget - The Boston Herald covers this week's MIT 150th Economics Symposium.
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Reuters Video News

"MIT Economist Simon Johnson and NYSE Euronext Chief Duncan Niederauer join Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chrystia Freeland to debate the the long-term effects of government bailouts of the big banks."
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Businessweek

Innovator: Joseph Bates - MIT visiting scientist Joseph Bates is featured in Bloomberg Businessweek's Innovator column.
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CBS News

Davos: Solar Power Seen A Key To Future - Article on discussions at the World Economic Forum on clean energy solutions, highlighting MIT research.
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PBS NOVA

NOVA series — "Making Stuff: Smaller" - The episode of this series airing on Wednesday, Jan. 26, will feature Department of Physics Assistant Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, recent winner of the Packard Fellowship.
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Businessweek

"The study, led by MIT's Dr. Sandy Petland who runs the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, tested whether early buzz could precipitate a product's ultimate success." - Story on "What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer"
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Bloomberg

"[Rodney] Brooks’s MIT colleague, social scientist Sherry Turkle, shares his fascination with how human beings relate to technology, and vice versa."
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Nature.com

"But Steven Piantadosi and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge say that, to convey a given amount of information, it is more efficient to shorten the least informative — and therefore the most predictable — words, rather than the most frequent ones."
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BBC News Southern Counties

"So far, the H5N1 strain has mainly infected birds and poultry workers, but experts fear the virus could mutate to pass easily from human to human. However, Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that to enter human respiratory cells the virus must first pick a very specific type of lock."
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The Economist

A special report on global leaders: The global campus - MIT president Susan Hockfield is featured in a major article on the role of universities as global leaders.
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Chicago Tribune

"Scientists at MIT and Harvard explored the idea that endothelial cells might also influence cancer growth because tumors rely on a blood supply to grow. In mice, they used secretions from endothelial cells to slow the growth and aggressiveness of cancerous tumors, also identifying the particular molecules in these secretions that were involved in the process."
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The New York Times

Book Review - Alone Together - The New York Times reviews MIT professor Sherry Turkle's new book on identity in the digital age.
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Bits - New York Times Blog

"On this week’s Tech Talk show, J.D. Biersdorfer chats with Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T. whose new book is 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other.'"
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New Scientist - Blogs

"Cheap 3D printers can now quickly make plastic replicas of almost anything, from an insect's wings to copies of their own parts. But now Amit Zoran and his team from the MIT Media Lab have used one to recreate the intricate design of a flute."
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