CNN
"If you want recommendations, Education-Portal.com will link you to some of the best free college courses, such as the 1,800-plus offered by M.I.T. and the arts and history at the U.K.'s Open University."
In the Media
New Scientist
"Now there's a weapon to fight spam - an automatic fact-checker called LazyTruth built into your email."
Boston.com
"The Lemelson-MIT Program said Wednesday that Ashok Gadgil is the recipient of its $100,000 Award for Global Innovation."
The New York Times
"In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities."
New Scientist
"A virtual assistant can help blind people explore their surroundings."
Bloomberg
"Peter Diamond, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in economics, also sees little evidence that raising rates on the top 1 percent of income earners -- households making about $350,000 or more a year in 2010 -- would restrict growth."
Forbes
"Everywhere I look, it seems, all I see are robots."
U.S. News & World Report
"When people ask computational theorist Scott Aaronson if working quantum computers will become widely available soon, he likens this to asking the same of 19th Century English mathematician Charles Babbage, whose designs were the basis for the earliest all-purpose computers."
Wired
"Fighter pilot Mary 'Missy' Cummings saw it coming while landing her F/A-18 supersonic jet on a Navy aircraft carrier — the world-changing disruption barreling toward the present."
The Huffington Post
"CollegeDegree.com has come up with the top 10 colleges for aspiring writers."
MSNBC
"To the chagrin of Dumpster divers everywhere, grocers may soon have sensors that accurately measure fruit ripeness, helping them reduce the amount of produce they throw away due spoilage on store shelves."
Popular Science
"This three-week-old robot created at the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group is spinning a web. Or maybe it’s more like a cocoon. Whatever you call it, it’s doing so without any help from humans, using tensile materials like string and rope to shroud itself in a woven enclosure of its own creation."
BBC News
"A revolution is required in our attitude to car parking, according to the author of a new book. He claims we are adrift in a 'sea of asphalt' and calls on architects to design car parks which are more aesthetically pleasing and have less environmental impact."
Here and Now- WBUR
"The death of Trayvon Martin has raised a lot of questions, including this one: Why is a child dead?"
The New York Times
"For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change, offering one reason after another why the outlook simply must be wrong."