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Reuters

"Fast forward 135 years and this tale of woe, by U.S. historian Scott Reynolds Nelson, bears an uncanny resemblance to today's chronic banking and debt problems, according to Stephen Ross, a professor of financial economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management."
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CNN Money

"Our conversation, though limited to half-an-hour, spanned many topics but mostly centered around the role robotics can play in bringing back manufacturing to America."
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The Huffington Post

"According to author Paul O’Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at MIT, heavy downpours in the tropics are likely to increase by ten percent for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in global average surface temperature."
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Scientific American

"But can robots believably display character traits? It turns out they can--and they can tell us a little something about the way humans act, too."
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The New York Times

"The Hartford Financial Service Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab published a study this week that identified 10 safety-related automotive technologies that its panel judged as the most beneficial for mature drivers."
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Bloomberg News

"There’s a ring of man-made satellites orbiting the earth that will outlast human civilization. To send a message to the future, artist Trevor Paglen decided to micro-etch 100 images on an ultra-archival disc created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers and blast them up there."
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NBC News

"Scientists have harnessed an imaging technique to create a 3-D visualization of electrons moving at nearly light speed on and in a futuristic material that could replace silicon in electronic devices of tomorrow."
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NBC News

"Moderators Alex Witt and Chelsea Clinton sit down at the MIT Media Lab with 3rd Grade Teacher Susie Brooks, New Classrooms Co-founder Joel Rose, and MIT Professor Mitch Resnick, and an audience of K-12 educators to talk about how technology will transform learning and classrooms."
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NBC News

"A brand-new reality-TV show premiered today, but this one isn't about aspiring singers or models — it's about chemistry students vying for plum research assignments."
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NBC News

"NASA will award a total of $2.7 million to eight advanced robotics projects, in an effort to push forward the frontiers of space exploration, agency officials announced."
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The Washington Post

"Here’s the conundrum: 'Birthdays don’t kill. Health conditions do,' said Joseph Coughlin, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab, which develops technologies to help older people stay active."
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Reuters

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that uses dashboard-mounted smartphones to help drivers avoid red lights and reduce fuel consumption."
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The Boston Globe

"Today, rapamycin and related derivatives are used to suppress the immune system and prevent rejection after an organ transplant, and to treat some cancers. But the renewed interest in the drug is for a much broader potential application: to slow or delay aging and to treat diseases that come with old age."
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Forbes

"Despite the transformative potential of online education, traditional universities are far from likely to become obsolete, and the interest boost from internet-based initiatives can help attract to US universities at least a small fraction of people from developing countries—say, 3 million of the more than 3 billion currently living in these countries." -MIT's Iqbal Quadir
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The Washington Post

"The idea we’re trying to get across isn’t part of the current education reform dialogue."
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