The New York Times
"As a child, (Junot Diaz) the author of the new story collection 'This Is How You Lose Her' loved the unabashedly smart Encyclopedia Brown. 'Smart was not cool where I grew up.'"
In the Media
The Economist
"To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems?"
The New York Times
"Is post-traumatic stress disorder underdiagnosed or overdiagnosed?"
Boston Herald
"A Hub medical-miracle team is working on a breakthrough that may someday lead to a 'smart heart' — implant-ready artificial tissue rigged with super-sensitive triggers that could sound an alarm when a patient’s ticker is off-kilter, and possibly even fix the faux organ without so much as a call to the doctor."
CNN
"Scientists are working on a futuristic tissue engineering venture to grow better solutions for damaged or missing organs."
Nature
"Automated assistance may soon be available to neuroscientists tackling the brain’s complex circuitry, according to research presented last week at the Aspen Brain Forum in Colorado."
The New York Times
"All the funds raised for the presidential and Congressional races so far pale in comparison to the money expected to rush in after the party conventions this week and next."
The Boston Globe
"Reimer and a team of MIT researchers studied the behavior of 108 Greater Boston drivers. About half acknowledged frequent phone use when driving; the rest said they rarely used their phones behind the wheel."
The Boston Globe
"In a study published this spring in Nano Letters, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported developing injectable nanoscale particles containing all the biological equipment needed to produce proteins."
Popular Science
"A new material developed at Harvard and MIT adds a distinctly cybernetic element to the science of tissue engineering."
WBUR
"Bad news for those comforted by laws that restrict cell phone use while driving: it’s not the technology causing the problems, it’s the aggressive, bad drivers, a new report from MIT suggests."
The Washington Post
"After all, if we need to raise revenue, why not just tax global-warming pollution?"
The New York Times
"There is clearly a good deal of variation in the inherent predictability of tropical cyclone track from one case to another."-MIT's Kerry Emanuel
Financial Times
"The electronic glitch that cost Knight Capital Group $440m points to a new threat to our digital economy: technological risk."
The Huffington Post
"Two economic myths drive support for the ethanol mandate."