Forbes
"Anyone who’s had a blazing insight in the shower or leaped ahead at work after a languorous vacation recognizes that sometimes, the path to creative insight isn’t a direct line."
In the Media
The Wall Street Journal
"Every day we recall the past, perceive the present and imagine the future. How do our brains accomplish these feats? It's safe to say that nobody really knows," Sebastian Seung (of MIT) writes early in "Connectome," his exploration of how researchers have at least made a start toward understanding how those feats are accomplished.
TIME
"Social-media neophytes need not fret. The brains behind a new study have provided a how-to guide in acquiring Twitter-savvy skills and more importantly, avoiding the oh-so irritating tweet habits."
The New York Times
"Since the phenomenon of 'word blindness' was first documented more than a century ago, scientists have searched for the causes of dyslexia, and for therapies to treat it."
The New York Times
"Everyone seems to be talking about a crisis in manufacturing."
NPR
"Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are replacing boots on the ground in some wars. Commercially, UAVs are being used for things like crop-dusting and flood mapping."
New Scientist
"(Juergen) Steimle has recently left the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, to join the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT's Media Lab. He has developed a range of ways to use the folds in foldable displays to create some quite novel forms of interaction."
Wired
"Spider silk is well known for some spectacular properties. It is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar yet flexible enough to be spun into a wide variety of shapes. New research shows that the material is not only strong but also smart."
Boston Herald
"Students from MIT, Harvard and Brown will compete this weekend in Facebook’s first tri-school hackathon."
U.S. News & World Report
"There is a growing realization that leadership and business school curricula need to address values and the art of leadership. The arts appear to help us deepen the discussion." -Christine Kelly, MIT Sloan School
National Public Radio
"The boom in cheap natural gas in this country is good news for the environment, because relatively clean gas is replacing dirty coal-fired power plants. But in the long run, cheap natural gas could slow the growth of even cleaner sources of energy, such as wind and solar power."
TIME
"Did you know that Twitter is full of inane, boring tweets that nobody wants to read? It’s true, according to science!"
Popular Science
"An MIT researcher has developed a method of manufacturing solar panels on the spot from agricultural waste, sidestepping the need for silicon and making ready-to-mix solar cheap and abundant virtually anywhere."
NECN
"In the most intensely anticipated stock offering in years, social networking giant Facebook late Wednesday filed papers to raise $5 billion through an initial public offering of stock, probably between April and June."
The New York Times
"As far as touchdown celebrations go, the spike is a classic, perhaps the original aggressive display of jubilation that never required choreography or props."