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Reuters

"'It's a hybrid storm, which combines some features of tropical hurricanes with some features of winter storms, that operate on quite different mechanisms,' said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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Opinionator (New York Times)

"An analysis of recent polling data by Professor Persily and Andrea Campbell, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, documents a partisan gulf of startling dimension that has opened since the court issued its decision in the health-care case in late June."
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TIME

"Hey wait, isn’t that a planet-killing asteroid in your sights? It could well be, if MIT student Sung Wook Paek’s idea sees light of day: spraying such an asteroid with a giant cloud of paint to knock it from its life-threatening course."
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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."
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Boston.com

"The MIT Korean Students Association decided to film their own take on Psy's 'Gangnam Style' video with a Cambridge spin."
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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."
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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?"
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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.'"
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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."
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