The Boston Globe
"When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear." -MIT's Neri Oxman
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"For me it’s all about a uniform. Like the other MIT people, it’s about efficiency. I have a closet full of dark suits, white shirts, and black shoes. That’s my uniform." -MIT's Paul Ha
Slate
"Usually when we talk about whether a technology is trustworthy, we’re talking about how reliable or secure it is. But Nexi, the robot in this video, can exhibit body language that is intended to make people suspicious."
Nature
"A sneak peek at the first results from a NASA mission to measure the Moon’s gravitational field hints at a lunar crust that is only half as thick as once thought."
Financial Times
"It remains unclear whether information flows via the internet or mobile phones are really becoming more democratic."
New Scientist
"A system that allows autonomous vehicles to gain a 3D view of an area could reduce the chance of a collision with an unseen obstacle or person by 14 times."
Reuters
"Four years into the credit crisis we still have no mechanisms in place to prevent a repeat, but there are measures that could be taken, says Onassis Prize winner and MIT Professor Stephen Ross."
TIME
"U.S. News and World Report has released its Best Colleges list for 2013, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like last year's list."
The Wall Street Journal
"The ECB bond buying program has only bought time and the Fed may not ease policy again, says David Schmittlein. The dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management suggests that there is still a long way to go." (Video)
U.S. News & World Report
"Want to major in a field of the future? Colleges have been responding to developments in technology and business by creating majors that hardly existed 5 or 10 years ago."
CBS Boston
"The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings are out and five of the top 35 national universities are in Massachusetts."
The Boston Globe
"Is their domination complete? Perhaps. With more reality TV shows, fragrances, clothing lines, and good hair than any one family deserves, the Kardashians now have their own units of measurement."
NBC News
"Warning: This optical illusion might give you a headache."
Wired
"MIT engineers have come up with a method of extracting clean water and reusable oil from oil spills using nanoparticles that turn the oil into magnetic ferrofluids."
NPR
"Yunior is the protagonist of Junot Diaz's first book of short stories, Drown, and the narrator of his prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."