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The Boston Globe

"A team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rhode Island School of Design believe they have created a way to help urban parents get around more efficiently, building a stroller and harness system called BuzzyBaby, which they hope to sell by next spring."
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CNN

"Three days after embattled Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko announced his resignation, the White House announced President Barack Obama intends to nominate (MIT alum) Allison Macfarlane, a professor at George Mason University, to the agency's top post."
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The Huffington Post

"Hamlet may have been able to see through a fake smile, but it's hard for most of us. People smile out of politeness, awkwardness or frustration, so how can we tell if a smile is real?"
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NPR

"The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine. But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free."
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NPR

"Did you know most people smile when they are frustrated?"
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NPR

"But no matter which man wins the next election — Obama or presumed challenger Mitt Romney — he may well go down in history as the First Robot President."
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WBUR's Radio Boston

"The push for online learning is gathering force, and not just at Harvard and MIT, with their groundbreaking edX project."
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WBUR's CommonHealth

"Now (and may I say it’s about time) researchers at MIT have developed a device that may inject a variety of drugs without using needles."
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Popular Science

"Whether you’re at the doctor’s office or taking medicine at home, future injections could be a lot less painful with this new gadget developed at MIT. Instead of a sterile metal point penetrating your skin, it fires a jet of medicine through your skin at the speed of sound."
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The New York Times

"President Obama on Thursday nominated (MIT alum) Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor of environmental science at George Mason University, to serve as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
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Financial Times

"'The great thing about the online market place,' says Dana Chandler, an MIT PhD candidate who researches the phenomenon, 'is that it is distributing work and income directly to people who wouldn’t have access to it before. You bypass physical migration, and open up the labour market to people in the most remote and poor parts of the world.'"
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Boston Herald

"Five collegiate teams — including two from local campuses — have spent the past 48 hours building prototypes for creative and useful apps as part of the 2012 Cable Show’s first-ever 'Imagine App Challenge' hackathon at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center."
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New Scientist

"In August, the Russian government, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will open the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. The institute's home will eventually be in a new 'science city' outside Moscow."
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New Scientist

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab are developing software that can read the feelings behind facial expressions. In some cases, the computers outperform people."
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The Boston Globe

"The burgeoning movement to put more college classes online, which attracted the support of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month, is getting another endorsement that may have an even greater impact: rigorous evidence that the computer can be as effective as the classroom."
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