The New York Times (Slideshow Image)
"Students from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had a snowball fight in Cambridge, Mass."
In the Media
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Today we look at e-business, or Internet commerce, an academic specialty that borrows heavily from a number of academic disciplines from entrepreneurship and marketing to data mining and analysis."
Wired.co.uk
"A team of roboticists has shown that by getting robots and humans to carry out simple tasks together, then swap roles, synchronicity increases significantly because the machines gain a better understanding of what's required of them."
Scientific American
"New tech from MIT aims to clean the water used in fracking so much that you'd happily drink it, even though it was once filled with chemicals."
NPR
"For Valentine's Day, maybe you'll post a photo of your loved one on Facebook, tweet out a love poem or text-message your secret crush. But as we make those virtual connections, are we missing something?"
The New York Times
"The stronger argument for a major government response to climate change is the more obvious argument: climate change."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Andrei Kirilenko, former chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), wants to prevent another financial crisis with a simple solution: education."
The Huffington Post
"Discussions of gun control have centered on whether policymakers should adopt an "assault weapon" ban -- something that seven states currently have, or have had, in the past." -MIT's Chris Knittel
The Wall Street Journal
"The anticipated marriage of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways Group Inc. would represent a departure from other airline mergers in recent decades, aimed more at creating a huge route network that leapfrogs the competition, rather than at culling money-losing and overlapping flights."
The Boston Globe
"During 2012, according to my research, the major news media documented and discussed the calamity for ordinary Syrians and rebels alike at a rate that was at least four times more frequent compared with coverage of civilian casualties in the Iraq war in 2006, the most violent year." -MIT's John Tirman
The Boston Globe
"They are studying entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taking lessons from Kendall Square to better understand how to turn the roundabout — and the former Olympic Park located nearby — into a global magnet for technology ventures."
Bloomberg News
"More than one-third of companies are reporting a profit from their sustainability efforts, a 23 percent increase from the previous year, according to an annual study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Consulting Group."
New Scientist
"The stuffs that the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are studying have something in common, something they share with a lot of everyday materials: they are fiendishly, inscrutably, impossibly complex."
The Huffington Post
"In the ocean, there are more waves than meet the eye."
UPI Asia
"The tectonic plate collision between India and Asia that created the Himalayas may have occurred 10 million years later than previously thought, geologists say."