The New York Times
"If I find myself in a free-falling elevator, is there any position that might increase my chance of survival? (Climbing on top of other people is not an acceptable answer.)"
In the Media
Financial Times
"Rafael Reif, MIT's provost, explains that 'MITx will be tied to an MIT-wide research initiative into online learning. That initiative will investigate ways in which students - whether on MIT's campus or part of a virtual community beyond it - learn best.'"
CBS News
"By now, most people have heard about the Kony 2012 video that’s gotten over 50 million hits on the internet."
The Guardian
"But the present reality is of astounding difference: the same people can live in abject poverty in one country, yet be prosperous once they move to another."
The Boston Globe
"This quake, tsunami, and meltdown — a triple catastrophe with no precedent — is simply called '3/11.' A year on, 3/11 and its consequences are at the center of a Japanese national debate on the future direction of the country, one that focuses on change, community, leadership, and vulnerability." -MIT's Richard Samuels
The Guardian
"Ed Boyden heads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT Media Lab. He is working on developing technologies and tools for 'analysing and engineering brain circuits' – to reveal which brain neurons are involved in different cognitive processes and using this knowledge to treat brain disorders."
Scientific American
"As of this school year, the physical education department is formally conferring pirate status on students, printing certificates on faux parchment with diploma-esque calligraphy."
The Huffington Post
"Habitual action via this cycle (cue, routine, reward) is a common phenomenon. It happens with everything from locking your front door to driving to work. It happens with eating and dieting, too."
MSNBC
"Your windows, curtains and wallpaper may soon start harvesting energy from sunlight as it spills into your room thanks to a prize-winning inventor who is putting solar cells on just about any surface."
WBUR's Radio Boston
"In our weekly sports conversation, we talk Harvard going to the 'big dance,' MIT crashing the 'little dance' and new Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine."
Wired
"By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light."
CNBC
"The shale gas energy industry needs to put in place better practices and reporting about 'fracking' before public concerns delay or even stop use of the technology that has created a boom in U.S. natural gas production, according to the MIT professor who led President Obama's subcommittee on shale gas."
Here and Now- WBUR
"Last year Sharifi received a very different assignment: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked him to write an original work that would reflect the struggles for freedom across the Middle East."
The Huffington Post
"All of that said, the fact that men are more likely to blurt out That Phrase before they mean to doesn’t mean women never do the same."
The Huffington Post
"You're looking at AGNES, which stands for Age Gain Now Empathy System. AGNES is a tool that we developed at the lab to give students, engineers, and the companies and governments we work with the 'aha' moment of what it may feel like to be somebody in their late seventies with at least one or two chronic diseases." -MIT's Joe Coughlin