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The Boston Globe

I was experiencing firsthand the potential of the building as a social condenser. Everyone’s work is visible to everyone else. And no doubt, the open atrium space sparks creative synergies between the students. - "On Architecture" column about the new Media Lab building
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Forbes

“We didn’t design this study to focus on the gender effect. That was a surprise to us.” - MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Thomas Malone, on research he and his colleagues completed on collective intelligence.
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The Boston Globe

"The subject matter of the opera is this notion of feeling a connection to something but not really being able to completely embrace it." - Evan Ziporyn, the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music, on his opera, "A House in Bali"
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WBUR.org

"What worries me is that the recent data suggests as many as 25 percent of people who have mortgages in the U.S., those mortgages are underwater." - William Wheaton, director of MIT's Center for Real Estate, on the current state of the housing market.
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CNN

NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving 24 high school teams a chance to program satellites on the International Space Station.
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The Boston Globe

"Of the last three recoveries, this one is having slower employment growth after the downturn." - James Poterba, the Mitsui Professor of Economics and head of the NBER, on the end of the recent recession
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The New York Times

"It makes a bigger difference how you connect people than who is there in influencing desirable behaviors." - MIT Sloan School of Management professor Damon Centola, discussing his research on social networks and health
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The New York Times Magazine

"Computer tutors are never going to completely replace human teachers or be 100 percent accurate." - Rosalind Picard, professor of media arts and sciences, on electronic tutors
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The Boston Globe

All of the exciting stuff around here is happening at the universities — most notably across the river at MIT, which continues to amass a gloriously edgy collection of art and architecture. - Column on public art in the Boston metro area
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Glamour magazine

"Don’t lose sight of your goals. Do make time for all of the unpredictable, awesome things that will happen along the way." - Dos and don’ts from Amy Qian, a senior studying mechanical engineering, who was named as one of Glamour magazines top 10 college women for 2010.
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BBC News

"There's a kind of a horse race among scientists around the world to make the highest efficiency cell, but very few people are asking what happens with that cell when you plug it in for a few hours or for a week or for months." - Michael Strano, the Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, on his work with self-repairing solar cells.
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The Wall Street Journal

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to use light so people with Type I diabetes can test their blood sugar levels with light, instead of with a needle.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

“The spirit of experimentation is in trying new things. Even if it wasn’t perfect for us, there are some positives in those tools. We try to find out what works in something that’s broken.” - Remlee Green, user-experience librarian at MIT, on how MIT Libraries' Beta Graveyard — the final resting place for underused tools and apps.
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Reuters

"If there is an anti-universe, perhaps out there beyond the edge of our universe, our space-based detector may well be able to bring us signs of its existence." - MIT professor Sam Ting on a particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year.
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The New York Times

“Things are very much in flux. We will probably need human embryonic stem cells for a while. And then we probably will not need them anymore." - Professor of Biology Rudolf Jaenisch on the implications of the recent stem cell court decision.
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