In the Media

"Turkle, an MIT professor and the author of two previous books on the relationship between humans and computer culture, recounts a conversation that she says 'stunned' her. It sure as heck shocked me."

"There's growing evidence that multitasking can be harmful, and businesses need to re-examine goals for workers, experts say."

"I think this is a pretty cool project. But the most important question I have is this: will it work with 3-D chocolate printers?"

"The 'Connected States of America' project, which is based on aggregated, anonymous cell phone data from July 2010, shows how Americans’ mobile communications define new communities that go beyond traditional city and state boundaries."

"Geoffrey von Maltzahn and coworkers have designed a two-part system consisting of specialized nanoparticles that communicate with each other to amplify the delivery of drugs to sites of disease."

"Although a normal monsoon has been forecast for South Asia this year, and rains have begun normally in many parts of the region, people are still anxious about the rainy season that lasts for four months."

"Signing up for Medicaid could improve your overall health and financial security."

"Mark Zuckerberg was the big one that got away."

"A new study being released today, by some of the country’s top health economists, aims to estimate the effects of not having health insurance — and the effects are large."

"If US homeowners were permitted to service their enormous mortgages at, say, the Fed funds rate of almost zero, bankruptcies and foreclosures would diminish sharply and consumption and gross domestic product growth improve."- Dr. Robert Madsen

"As with many aspects of the ACA, the effect of insuring millions of poor Americans represents a leap into the unknown."

"A new research paper gives the clearest answer yet to a key question: how are people affected by gaining health insurance?"

"Why do chameleons change color? Can lightning follow a trail of water? Why do we go in the basement during a tornado? How do those guys karate-chop planks of wood without breaking their hand?"

"It may be known for its cutting edge technology and MIT, but for one wild turkey and its babies, Cambridge’s Kendall Square is home."

"The result: a pair of glasses that deciphers what a person is feeling and transmit that meaning to the person wearing them."