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Bloomberg

"Peter Diamond, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in economics, also sees little evidence that raising rates on the top 1 percent of income earners -- households making about $350,000 or more a year in 2010 -- would restrict growth."
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Forbes

"Everywhere I look, it seems, all I see are robots."
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U.S. News & World Report

"When people ask computational theorist Scott Aaronson if working quantum computers will become widely available soon, he likens this to asking the same of 19th Century English mathematician Charles Babbage, whose designs were the basis for the earliest all-purpose computers."
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Wired

"Fighter pilot Mary 'Missy' Cummings saw it coming while landing her F/A-18 supersonic jet on a Navy aircraft carrier — the world-changing disruption barreling toward the present."
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The Huffington Post

"CollegeDegree.com has come up with the top 10 colleges for aspiring writers."
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MSNBC

"To the chagrin of Dumpster divers everywhere, grocers may soon have sensors that accurately measure fruit ripeness, helping them reduce the amount of produce they throw away due spoilage on store shelves."
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Popular Science

"This three-week-old robot created at the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group is spinning a web. Or maybe it’s more like a cocoon. Whatever you call it, it’s doing so without any help from humans, using tensile materials like string and rope to shroud itself in a woven enclosure of its own creation."
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BBC News

"A revolution is required in our attitude to car parking, according to the author of a new book. He claims we are adrift in a 'sea of asphalt' and calls on architects to design car parks which are more aesthetically pleasing and have less environmental impact."
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Here and Now- WBUR

"The death of Trayvon Martin has raised a lot of questions, including this one: Why is a child dead?"
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The New York Times

"For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change, offering one reason after another why the outlook simply must be wrong."
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Associated Press at The Washington Post

"Less than a year after NASA ended its shuttle program, players in America’s space business are casting around for new direction."
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Boston Herald

"Ladies from 10 college rugby teams scrummed in style yesterday, competing in MIT’s fifth annual Prom Dress Rugby Tournament."
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USA Today

"Drivers today are similarly attached to their cellphones and in-car technology. But unlike the drivers of the 1930s, they're conflicted over efforts to regulate them."
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The Wall Street Journal

"In the last few years, we have gone from a world that was connected to a world that is now hyperconnected."
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Wired

"The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together."
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