The Washington Post
"More than any other American conflict, the Vietnam War for years has been used as a cautionary tale of imperial overreach and excessive ideological zeal, though many details of the war are fading."
In the Media
The Financial Times
"Will the rise of higher education in the US and elsewhere be curtailed by the expansion of Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs) that allow people to study digitally rather than attend lectures and classes?"
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
"Missy Cummings shares the many applications of drones."
The Wall Street Journal
"As India expands and overhauls its social safety net, from a new food benefits program to cash transfers, it has also been grappling with how best to select those who should receive this aid."
The Boston Globe
"Since becoming artistic director of the Boston Chamber Music Society, violist Marcus Thompson has taken advantage of his other position, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to curate programs built around connections, both solid and speculative, between music and science."
The Boston Globe
"As we sniffle, suffer, and stress about lurking germs, researchers across the Boston area are developing new ways of fighting the flu."
The Washington Post
"One of the biggest challenges in designing social programs is to make sure you’re not just rewarding people for doing what they were already planning to do."
CNN
"Do you ever feel like the place you live is just a dot on a map? Well, if you live in the U.S. or Canada, Brandon Martin-Anderson just made you a dot on a map."
The Wall Street Journal
"By blending gene therapy, neural engineering and fiber optics, experimenters at more than 800 laboratories world-wide are making neurons into switches they can directly control by beaming a selected wavelength of laser light to a targeted cell in a living brain."
The Boston Globe
"Missy Cummings landed F/A-18 fighter jets on aircraft carriers when she was a Navy pilot. Now she studies unman-ned aerial vehicles — commonly known as drones — as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
CNN
"The 'Mona Lisa' has been to the moon and back -- or at least a digital image of her."
U.S. News & World Report
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology political science professor Charles Stewart III suggests Boehner may be operating in a time similar to that of the FDR administration."
USA Today
"Airlines around the world grounded their Boeing 787 Dreamliners on Thursday after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered U.S. airlines to stop flying them."
New Scientist
"Robert Langer and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have blended two polymers to create a film that mimics structures found in muscle and plant tissues that bend when humidity changes."
WBUR
"Last week, a friend commented to Keith Winstein, an MIT computer science graduate student and former health care reporter at The Wall Street Journal: 'Whoa. This flu season seems to be the worst ever. Check out Google Flu Trends.'"