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The Guardian

"Ed Boyden heads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT Media Lab. He is working on developing technologies and tools for 'analysing and engineering brain circuits' – to reveal which brain neurons are involved in different cognitive processes and using this knowledge to treat brain disorders."
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Scientific American

"As of this school year, the physical education department is formally conferring pirate status on students, printing certificates on faux parchment with diploma-esque calligraphy."
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The Huffington Post

"Habitual action via this cycle (cue, routine, reward) is a common phenomenon. It happens with everything from locking your front door to driving to work. It happens with eating and dieting, too."
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MSNBC

"Your windows, curtains and wallpaper may soon start harvesting energy from sunlight as it spills into your room thanks to a prize-winning inventor who is putting solar cells on just about any surface."
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WBUR's Radio Boston

"In our weekly sports conversation, we talk Harvard going to the 'big dance,' MIT crashing the 'little dance' and new Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine."
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Wired

"By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light."
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CNBC

"The shale gas energy industry needs to put in place better practices and reporting about 'fracking' before public concerns delay or even stop use of the technology that has created a boom in U.S. natural gas production, according to the MIT professor who led President Obama's subcommittee on shale gas."
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Here and Now- WBUR

"Last year Sharifi received a very different assignment: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked him to write an original work that would reflect the struggles for freedom across the Middle East."
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The Huffington Post

"All of that said, the fact that men are more likely to blurt out That Phrase before they mean to doesn’t mean women never do the same."
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The Huffington Post

"You're looking at AGNES, which stands for Age Gain Now Empathy System. AGNES is a tool that we developed at the lab to give students, engineers, and the companies and governments we work with the 'aha' moment of what it may feel like to be somebody in their late seventies with at least one or two chronic diseases." -MIT's Joe Coughlin
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The Boston Globe

"Flying in formation around the moon, a pair of NASA probes began mapping the lunar gravity field in hopes of figuring out why Earth's only natural satellite is shaped the way it is."
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Bloomberg

"Simon Johnson, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a Bloomberg View columnist, talks about the U.S. economy and fiscal policy."
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The Washington Post

"Science and technology are meaningful when interwoven with all of the other modes of learning. A STEM, without its bloom, quickly withers in the forest of everday life."
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Boston Herald

"The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center plan to announce the first recipients of funding from The Bridge Project, a research alliance between the two schools designed to bring bioengineering and clinical oncology together to solve challenging problems in cancer research and care."
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Boston Herald

"Even though it’s cool to be a nerd nowadays (Do you know people are always like, 'OH HEY I’M A GEEK!' expecting a round of applause?) sometimes some people need a little extra help."
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