Bloomberg Businessweek
"It’s as if $2.5 trillion worth of stuff—the equivalent of the entire U.S. economy circa 1958—materialized out of thin air."
In the Media
Wonkblog- The Washington Post
"It’s sometimes suggested that American car companies have quit making more efficient cars and trucks in recent decades. But that’s not strictly true, according to MIT economist Christopher Knittel."
MSNBC
"North Americans should breathe easy: New research confirms that the continent has eroded very little over the past 1.5 billion years and, in all likelihood, won’t shed much ground in the next billion years, either."
The Economist
"The destruction part is easy to see: downturns kill businesses, leaving boarded-up windows on the high street as their gravestones. But recessions may also spur the creation of new businesses."
Wired
"All factors being equal, fuel economy increased 60 percent in that time, Knittel notes in 'Automobiles on Steroids,' published in American Economic Review. If we were driving cars that featured today’s drivetrain tech but had the weight and power of vehicles in the Reagan era, the average fuel economy of the American fleet would have climbed from 23 mpg in 1980 to roughly 37 mpg today."
CNN Money
"The CityCar is just one example of how MIT's Changing Places group envisions the urban lifestyle of 2022."
Bloomberg
"Although there are notable exceptions, most journalists have limited training in economics, and those who edit the articles often have even less. Hence, out of an understandable but misguided sense of fair play, there is a bias toward wanting to show both sides of an issue."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Indian Institutes of Technology have agreed to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Consortium, enabling anyone to access online the course content of the elite engineering schools, reports The Times of India."
The Huffington Post
"They’ve created a suit called AGNES—short for “Age Gain Now Empathy System” -- that simulates the trials and tribulations that come with your average 70-year-old body, by using various braces, bands, and other tricks to limit wearers' mobility, and give them a glimpse of senior citizen discomfort."
Nature
"This May, the biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, whose career has mirrored the growth and diversity of molecular genetics, will retire from laboratory research and from most public speaking on women and science."
The New York Times- Wheels
"According to Christopher Knittel, a professor of applied economics at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, if weight, horsepower and torque were held to their 1980 levels, and efficiency-boosting technologies continued to be honed — fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks would have increased by almost 60 percent from 1980 to 2006, from a present average of 23 miles per gallon across the fleet to approximately 37 m.p.g"
Boston Herald
"You’ve heard of the fat suit and the pregnancy suit; now meet AGNES — the old person suit."
The New York Times
"The consequences of how we fight wars reveals a great deal about how and why others fight us."
Forbes
"Just making the coursework available for free, of course, doesn’t make people use it, no matter how good it is. MITx adds the incentive of an “official certificate of completion” for each class and, according to my Forbes.com colleague James Marshall Crotty, a 'greater interactive experience.…'"
New Scientist
"We don't actually know why the near side and far side are different." -mission principal scientist Maria Zuber of MIT