ABC News
"Convinced that consumers aren't in touch with their financial realities, an MIT designer has created a series of wallets to help you control what you spend."
In the Media
Forbes Blogs
"MIT researcher Mark Bear thinks that some forms of autism and mental retardation may be treatable with drugs already on laboratory shelves."
The Wall Street Journal
Blue Sky Thinking - MIT professor Moshe Ben-Akiva is profiled as one of The Wall Street Journal's list of five innovative thinkers working in the transport industry today.
The Boston Globe Green Blog
"The study, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Joseph Ferreira, Jr. and Eric Minikel, a recent MIT grad, is the first to link real miles driven with actual claims filed – the insurance claims the two examined totaled 34 billion miles." - Report on a study about pay-as-you-drive car insurance
Reuters Video News
Top thinkers: Daron Acemoglu - Interview with Reuters' Chrystia Freeland
Forbes.com
"The foundations of affective computing were laid in the 1990s by MIT professor Rosalind W. Picard, who oversees the lab with the face-tracking demo."
WSJ Blogs
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Frank Levy and his co-author Kyoung-Hee Yu of the Australian School of Business argue that the fear that radiological work would be offshored to Bangalore was mostly media hype." - Story: "India Is Benign for Radiologists, Economists Argue"
Boston.com - Your Town
"On Thursday, MIT graduate students from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning will be hosting their second and final community meeting on the future of Needham Street, according to a release."
National Public Radio (NPR)
Silly Science Honored With Ig Nobel Prizes - MIT professor Eric Adams is a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, honored as one of the recipients of the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize awards.
The Economist
"Such automation is precisely what Mehmet Fatih Yanik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have in mind. They have created a miniature production line to streamline the process of testing drugs on worms." - Report about research on mass-screening of drug candidates on tiny animals.
The New York Times
Arnold Barnett - Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer? - MIT professor Arnold Barnett speaks about the controversy surrounding new security measures.
Boston Globe
"He is one of three Harvard seniors — Zachary Frankel and Daniel E. Lage are the other two — who won a Rhodes scholarship, in addition to Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior Jennifer Lai."
BBC News
"Previous studies have suggested that the Advanced Combat Helmet, currently employed by the majority of US ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, actually focuses blast wave energy, causing more harm than good. To find out, Raul Radovitzky of [MIT's] Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and his colleagues simulated a human skull in detail on a computer."
Wired/Science News
"In the new study, researchers led by Raúl Radovitzky of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies created an elaborate computer model of a human head that included layers of fat and skin, the skull, and different kinds of brain tissue."
CNN
Superhero style spacesuits - MIT has created a "superhero-style" spacesuit that's used to help fight bone loss in space.