The Guardian
"What has been the story of global poverty over the past decade? What role has aid played? What should replace the millennium development goals after 2015?"
In the Media
Bloomberg
"The basic contours of Mitt Romney’s approach to Social Security reform are coming into focus, and the results aren’t pretty."
Wired
"Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the majority of solar research was going into improving the performance of cells, and bringing down their cost. Instead, they wanted to find out if the arrangement of the cells could improve their input."
Scientific American
"In a new study, published in Nature, a group of researchers from MIT showed for the first time that it is possible to activate a memory on demand, by stimulating only a few neurons with light, using a technique known as optogenetics."
Popular Science
"This squishy ball, inspired by an equally cute kid’s toy, is a breakthrough in a new class of three-dimensional structures that can buckle reversibly."
New Scientist
"Buckling buildings are normally bad news, but a new a 3D shape dubbed the 'buckliball', created by researchers at MIT and Harvard University, could allow architects to create structures with collapsible ceilings or walls without the need for moving parts."
The Washington Post
"Six schools — Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, and University of California, Berkeley — have effectively cornered the market on being 'the best' in academic research, according to the latest reputation survey from Times Higher Education."
Forbes
"Truth be told, Russia is fairly high tech."
USA Today at ABC News
"Ever since George Washington became the first president of the United States, politicians, economists, bankers, philosophers and citizens without titles have been arguing about the deficit and the national debt."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"A group of graduate students from MIT is planning to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver a petition with more than 10,000 signatures from people urging Congress to boost federal support for scientific research. The group helped publicize its petition by circulating a YouTube video in which MIT students explain their scientific research and its importance to the national economy."
MSNBC
"The buckliball is the first morphable structure to incorporate buckling as something to be desired, according to MIT. Potential uses include a building with a collapsible roof or wall – perhaps something more high-tech than the retractable roof at Safeco Field where the Seattle Mariners play baseball."
The New York Times
"The parking lot is the antithesis of nature’s fields and forests, an ugly reminder of the costs of our automobile-oriented society. But as long as we prefer to get around by car (whether powered by fossil fuel, solar energy or hydrogen), the parking lot is here to stay."
The Economist
"Deck officers on American aircraft carriers use hand gestures to guide planes around their vessels. These signals are fast, efficient and perfect for a noisy environment. Unfortunately, they work only with people."
BBC News
"A Nasa spacecraft has found further tantalising evidence for the existence of water ice at Mercury's poles."
The Huffington Post
"Here are ten women - some historical, some still breaking down barriers - who deserve our thanks."