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The Huffington Post

"Sherry Turkle, the MIT researcher who has studied the effects of technology on human interaction for years, makes a similar point. She says that the obsession with digital 'connection' (manifested by everything from texting at the dinner table to constantly updating our Facebook statuses) has taken away from real-world conversations and engagements."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Jerry Hausman, an M.I.T. economics professor who studied Michael Jordan's impact on the NBA, said that even if there was no draft and players entered the league only through free agency, the salary cap (and the finite number of shots a team can take in a game) would still prevent teams from 'stacking' superstars and creating dynasties."
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Popular Science

"You may not notice it - at least not as much as you notice when you smile sarcastically - but you smile when you’re frustrated. It’s more like a surprised grimace than a happy grin, but the difference is subtle. So subtle that humans can hardly detect it, actually - but a computer can."
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The Wall Street Journal

"A pair of scientists shared the 2012 Shaw Prize in astronomy for their groundbreaking research on the early stages of planet formation."
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The Boston Globe

"Two new initiatives based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could help make Massachusetts a global center for the emerging field of 'big data' — the ability to quickly dissect and understand floods of digital information."
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Nature

"David Jewitt, at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jane Luu, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, share the astronomy prize for their 'discovery and characterization of trans-Neptunian bodies' — objects in the outer reaches of the Solar System, such as the chilly and mysterious Quaoar."
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Wired

"'We finally have the tools to watch how bacteria behave in the ocean, which still kind of blows my mind,' said Melissa Garren, a marine microbiologist at MIT."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"MIT recently resurrected App Inventor and expanded it with particular attention to educational use, and the new hub for the tool includes the beginnings of a section of resources aimed at teachers."
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WBUR's Radio Boston

"Big data processing and storage has the potential to add an estimated 15,000 jobs to the local economy over the next few years, which is why this new initiative MIT has unveiled, called bigdata@CSAIL, is so important."
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The Wall Street Journal

"At the recent news conference announcing edX, a $60 million Harvard-MIT partnership in online education, university leaders spoke of reaching millions of new students in India, China and around the globe. They talked of the 'revolutionary' potential of online learning, hailing it as the 'single biggest change in education since the printing press.'"
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The Economist

"It would be a blessing, then, if needles could be done away with and drugs introduced into the body in some other way. And that is exactly what Ian Hunter, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is proposing."
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New Scientist

"needleless device that jets medicine through the skin could bring an end to painful injections. It could also provide developing countries with a way to deliver powdered drugs, which do not require refrigeration."
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TIME

"Beware of your smile: it may betray you. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way to discern the sincerity—and level of frustration—associated with your grin."
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USA Today

"What makes Sal's videos particularly engaging is just his personality," Agarwal says. "It's his voice. You feel like he's there next to you, explaining things."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Research offers little support for the idea that listening to music improves concentration, says Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT."
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