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In the Media

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The New York Times

"All sorts of walls come tumbling down in “World of Wires,” Jay Scheib’s slap-happy, mixed-media murder mystery at the Kitchen. Divisions between reality (that old chimera) and perception — not to mention the borders that separate screen from stage and human from machine — are stomped upon with the glee of a precocious, permanently stoned, science-fiction-reading 14-year-old who has just discovered, like, philosophy, dude."
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The Wall Street Journal

"In no other U.S. recovery since World War II have companies been simultaneously faster to boost spending on machines and software, while slower to add people to run them."
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Bloomberg

"Yet depreciation may be the only remaining hope for the euro’s survival, as long as it is carried out through swift and coherent policy support."
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The Boston Globe

"Coming soon to a garage near you is a car that will download your work schedule and trigger your alarm clock. By the time you get behind the wheel, the car will have analyzed the morning’s traffic and weather and calculated the best route to get you to the office on time."
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Wired

"Our brains are made to find faces. In fact, they're so good at picking out human-like mugs we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or some craters on Moon."
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The Boston Globe

"Joi Ito started last fall as the new director of the MIT Media Lab, the famed research group that explores how technology is changing communication and culture, often by building dazzling hardware and software prototypes."
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New Scientist

"There's nothing like the visceral roar of the crowd - that hair-raising, spine-tingling moment when thousands of people all sing, or shout, in unison."
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Popular Science

"Researchers there (at MIT) have created a nanoscale coating that can stop bleeding nearly instantaneously using a clotting agent already found naturally in blood."
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The Boston Globe

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities, as well as companies like Cabot Corp., the giant chemical company in Boston, are hoping Massachusetts can become a center for a burgeoning graphene industry."
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NPR's Here and Now

"Even as the debt crisis continues to grow in Europe, the debate there has shifted."
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The New York Times

"In October, with support from two Media Laboratory videographers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paula Aguilera and Jonathan Williams, Dr. Hidalgo began posting online a series of video interviews with local scientists."
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The Boston Globe

"Here's my list of big events happening in Boston this year. Some are home-grown, and others are major national conventions — like the annual conclaves of the biotech and cable TV industries — that are coming to town." -Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe

"Meanwhile, the Changing Places Group at MIT’s Media Lab is working on a new vision for urban driving: a car that can be folded to fit into the tightest parking spaces."
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The Boston Globe

Rev. John Crocker Jr., a civil rights activist and former chaplain at Brown University and at MIT, has died at 88.
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The Boston Globe

"Rev. Crocker, a civil rights activist and Vietnam War opponent while serving as a chaplain at Brown University and at MIT, died last Friday in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge."
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