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New Scientist

"(Bernice) Abbott was first known for Changing New York, a collection of photographs published in 1939 that documented the Works Progress Administration relief effort during the Great Depression. Science imaging came later when, in her sixties, she began work at MIT."
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The New York Times

"At the May announcement of edX, the Harvard-M.I.T. partnership that will offer free online courses with a certificate of completion, Susan Hockfield, the president of M.I.T., declared: 'Fasten your seat belts.'"
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Wired

"There are autonomous cars, and there are drivers’ cars. Now we have something in the middle. Sterling Anderson and Karl Iagnemma of MIT have created a semi-autonomous driving system that gives drivers full control of the vehicle, but kicks when the car gets too close to another object."
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Scientific American

"The renewable ethanol fuel blended into the United States' gasoline supply does not lower prices at the pump as advocates have claimed, according to a study released this week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The Atlantic

"Using a little-known copyright rule and a trove of baseball-related trivia, an MIT economist figured out how current copyright laws specifically affect one online community."
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Forbes

"In a soon to be published book, (MIT's Michael) Schrage asks a question he hopes will challenge the way businesses traditionally think: 'What do you want your customer to become?'"
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Forbes

"When a person decides to donate a kidney, expecting nothing in return, clearly one person’s life could be saved. But this single act of altruism actually can save dozens of lives."
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The Guardian

"The idea of wearable computing has been around for a few decades; but it's only recently that phones have acquired enough computing power, data connectivity has become pervasive, Bluetooth connections low-powered enough and screens cheap enough, for us to start thinking of adopting it."
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Nature

"Enhancements such as doping are illegal in sport — but if all restrictions were lifted, science could push human performance to new extremes."
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Financial Times

"The main goal of a retirement scheme should, in our view, be to enable its members to realise the inflation-protected incomes that will be needed to maintain an adequate standard of living in retirement for life."
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The New York Times

"Experts say it is too soon to predict how MOOCs will play out, or which venture will emerge as the leader."
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The Washington Post

"The White House recently modified an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to limit soot emissions, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, inviting public comment on a slightly weaker standard than the agency had originally sought."
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WBUR

“Let me show you a magic trick. This might look like an ordinary kettle — but it’s a magic kettle. And it’s magic because it will pour any color that I ask it to. Oh, you don’t believe me? Check this out!” -MIT doctoral student Tyler DeWitt
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The Wall Street Journal

"About 14% of U.S. companies surveyed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor definitely plan to move some of their manufacturing back home—the latest sign of growing interest among executives in a strategy known as 'reshoring.'"
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New Scientist

"Get ready to chuck away your 3D glasses. A way of producing 3D TV images that work no matter where you are in the room could see images stand out from a flat TV screen – without the need for any silly eyeware."
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