The Huffington Post
"Gun reform is needed but a larger conversation is called for." -MIT's Robert M. Randolph
In the Media
NBC News
"If just one percent of drivers from commuter-heavy neighborhoods stayed off the road during rush hour, traffic congestion for everyone else would drop up to 18 percent, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of cellphone data."
AP at The Boston Globe
"A pair of NASA spacecraft tumbled out of orbit around the moon and crashed back-to-back into the surface on Monday, ending a mission that peered into the lunar interior."
Associated Press (at NPR)
"Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish."
The New York Times
"'Food is a symptom and a symbol of change and how people grow apart,' said Heather Paxson, an anthropology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
The Wall Street Journal
"Last week, Moving Image unveiled its own leap forward in exploring, preserving and exhibiting computer play culture with 'Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off.'"
The Boston Globe
"'We were [one of the] first campuses in the country to embrace the food truck concept,' says Michael Myers, associate director of dining services at MIT. 'The reason they were brought on campus [is because] in that particular area, over by the Kendall T stop, there were very few food service options. We really needed to fulfill that need.'"
The New York Times
"But the 'Spacewar!' show is noteworthy because it goes beyond a grab-bag, check-this-out approach — 'Waiter, there are video games in my art museum' — and focuses on how video games were influenced by the medium’s first successful creation: Spacewar!, developed by a group of M.I.T. students and researchers and introduced to the world in 1962."
WBUR
"His lab motto is: If your quanta are broke, we fix them. I wonder if they make crescent wrenches for quantum mechanics. We'll ask him. Seth Lloyd is professor of mechanical engineering at MIT in Cambridge. He joins us from WBUR."
Forbes
"Schools like MIT and Harvard fuel the area’s high-tech employment, which at 17.7% is second highest in the U.S., after San Jose, Calif."
NPR
"European officials have taken a big step toward the banking union many analysts believe is necessary to vanquish the debt crisis."
ABC News
"After nearly a year circling the moon, NASA's Ebb and Flow will meet their demise when they crash — on purpose — into the lunar surface."
WBUR
"We have huge challenges in this century. We need huge breakthroughs again. On energy, water, cancer, climate change. What’s in the way? How do we do it?"
The New York Times
"In January, representatives of dozens of countries will gather in Geneva to discuss combating mercury emissions, which are rising in Asia even as Europe and the United States have tightened controls."
CBS News
"Engineers are creating medical needles and adhesives that emulate barb-tipped porcupine quills."