The Atlantic
"A swarm of umbrella-wielding folks coordinated an entire light show by watching a projection of an aerial video feed of the scene."
In the Media
Boston.com
"The MIT Korean Students Association decided to film their own take on Psy's 'Gangnam Style' video with a Cambridge spin."
The New York Times
"The tax deduction for mortgage interest may not quite be the “third rail” of politics that Social Security is, but politicians on both sides have long been afraid to touch it."
Here & Now (WBUR)
"Whenever there’s an extreme weather event, from a hurricane to a record drought, the question always arises: Is it climate change?"
Forbes
"With millions of Baby Boomer drivers reaching retirement age, it’s an urgent priority to do something about the fact that vision is one of the first things to deteriorate as we age."
Scientific American
"Now comes the arduous task of sorting through the debris and cleaning up. Some people will have to leave their homes while repairs are made and floodwaters recede. That's where SandyCrashPads could come in."
TIME
"Hate the way bandages hurt when you take them off? There’s a new 'quick release' medical tape that could take the pain out of keeping wounds covered."
Scientific American
"A framework that relies on college-level mathematics could describe what happens to particles in so-called space-time rips, gravity fluctuations such as those that occur during the birth of a black hole."
Wired.co.uk
"'It's the sustain! It's never done that before!' Imogen Heap breaks out of a captivating performance of a song written just three weeks ago for a piece of tech she's had to wait two-and-a-half years to get her hands on."
Financial Times
"Andrew Lo, economist, hedge fund manager and finance professor at MIT Sloan, plans to apply financial engineering, the sector he knows best, to the search for a cure for cancer."
New Scientist
"Sandy is expected to linger for days, thanks to "blocking patterns" that make weather systems move slowly. Climate change will create more such situations in future, says Kerry Emanuel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'We expect that hurricanes may move more slowly in the future than they do now.'"
NPR
"For all of the talk about the disappearance of manners and the coarsening of society, Americans don't seem to mind lining up in orderly fashion – for a good reason."
Scientific American
"Scientists have mapped a tiny roundworm's entire nervous system. Did it teach them anything about its behavior?"
AP at Boston Herald
"The Robert A. and Renee E. Belfer Family Foundation has donated $25 million for research on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases."
Chronicle of Higher Education
"The underrepresentation of women in science and mathematics is well documented, but it may come as a surprise to many people that men also far outnumber women in certain humanities disciplines, including philosophy and history."