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This American Life

"In the world of engineers and investors, there's something called the "elevator pitch." It's what you'd say if you ran into a rich investor in an elevator, and had only 60 seconds to sell your product. The concept is so common that MIT actually hosts a contest for the best elevator pitch."
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Boston.com

"After surviving a Nazi concentration camp as a boy and fleeing communist rule in his native Czechoslovakia, Michael Gruenbaum remembers well the first job he got upon immigrating to the United States and becoming a student at MIT."
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NPR

"Maria Zuber, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, says this is a compelling new theory of why the moon can have mountains, even if it doesn't have any volcanoes or colliding continents."
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BBC News

"Scientists have developed a mathematical model that predicts the maximum height trees can reach in particular environmental conditions."
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Forbes

"In this case, it’s the students at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab, who’ve successfully programmed a PR2 to bake a cookie, starting with putting all the ingredients in a bowl, mixing them, putting them in a pan, then a toaster oven to bake."
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The New York Times

"A robot that bakes cookies!"
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Wired

"When Jolt detects that a program is stuck in a certain kind of infinite loop, it can force it to exit the loop and continue executing."
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Reuters

"A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has figured out a way to deliver low cost solar energy at night as well as during the day, by combining a concentrated solar power system with a molten salt heat storage system."
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New Scientist

"If it works, this black sludge will transform the rechargeable battery, doubling the range of electric cars and making petroleum obsolete."
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Popular Science

"MIT engineers have a reputation for applying their vast intellectual resources and physical energies toward solving some of mankind’s greatest challenges. And it’s fair to say this morning that at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, researchers have lived up to that expectation."
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Scientific American

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come one step closer to replacing the lithium-ion batteries that power phones, laptops and electric cars with a device that stores far more energy for the same weight."
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Boston.com

"Picture it as Pythagoras meets Pedroia." -Stan Grossfield, referring to the MIT Science of Baseball program
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MSNBC

"The MIT team is confident it can further improve the energy density of its micro-reactors though, and they're confident it could get to the point your smartphone could go for a week without needing a recharge, just from its own heat."
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Boston.com

"Pigeons get a bad rap - think “rats with wings’’ - but they are actually finely honed flying machines, capable of zooming around obstacles and finding their way through virgin territory with amazing ease."
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Boston.com

"Kendall Morse, a 77-year-old folk singer with a penchant for storytelling, has one tale that he would especially like to tell: the way he got his voice back."
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