BBC News
"Preventing a 'lost generation' of workers unable to get jobs is one of the world economy's biggest problems, according to delegates at the World Economic Forum."
In the Media
The New York Times
"Even if he didn’t quite make it all the way to outer space, as some early reports claimed, a two-inch Lego man, with a fixed grin and a Canadian flag in his hand, did travel about 80,000 feet above the Earth’s surface to the upper stratosphere this month, and he has the stunning video to prove it."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"But unless traditional colleges figure out a way to incorporate the new players and their ideas, such as MIT did recently, the innovators will figure out a way around the credentialing hurdle that will be acceptable to students, parents, and, most important, employers."
Scientific American
"A new study of a lunar rock scooped up by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their Apollo 11 mission indicates that the ancient moon long sustained a dynamo—a convecting fluid core, much like Earth's, that produces a global magnetic field. The age of the rock implies that the lunar dynamo was still going some 3.7 billion years ago, about 800 million years after the moon's formation."
PBS NewsHour
"As President Obama and GOP presidential candidates talk about reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector in hopes of creating jobs, how realistic is that goal in the face of continued outsourcing and machines filling jobs once held by humans?"
Scientific American
"With the current negative attention and controversy surrounding shale gas drilling, the words ‘hydraulic fracturing’ or ‘fracking’ have become synonymous with something else: water contamination."
The Boston Globe
"Several years later, I couldn't be happier with my decision. Sloan offers the best possible experience for what I want to do as a technology entrepreneur and a management consultant."
The New York Times
"At European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, the commission chief, José Manuel Barroso, inspected a small city-car prototype. It was the commercial version of the long-gestating CityCar from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab."
New Scientist
"You've set your Facebook account to 'friends only,' your Tweets are protected and you wouldn't dream of setting a virtual foot near location-sharing services like Foursquare - in other words, you can feel pretty safe online, right? Wrong."
TIME
"The Lemelson-MIT Invention Index is a self-proclaimed 'annual survey that gauges Americans’ perceptions about invention and innovation.' The latest survey asked 1,000 respondents between the ages of 16 and 25 various questions about invention, innovation and modern technology, including this doozy: 'Who’s the greatest innovator of all time?'"
The New York Times
"'Early stage investors go to places before everyone else,' said Mr. Ito, who was appointed last year as head of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'In five to ten years, I think this will be a very vibrant entrepreneurial hub, but when it is going to happen will depend a lot on how much the governments and big companies are willing to allow those small companies to grow here.'”
CBS News
"President Barack Obama has adopted a new strategy declaring for the first time that the United States has a national security interest to protect the nation's economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters in all corners of the globe."
CBS News
"I used the college search engine over COLLEGEdata.com to search for schools strictly by freshmen satisfaction and came up with a list of 26 schools with the happiest freshmen."
NPR
"Since President Obama took office, the U.S. has made considerable progress in overcoming a problem that has bedeviled presidents since Richard Nixon — dependence on foreign oil."
U.S. News & World Report
"The table highlights the most popular National Universities, which are research-oriented institutions that offer degrees of all levels."