The New York Times
"The consequences of how we fight wars reveals a great deal about how and why others fight us."
In the Media
Forbes
"Just making the coursework available for free, of course, doesn’t make people use it, no matter how good it is. MITx adds the incentive of an “official certificate of completion” for each class and, according to my Forbes.com colleague James Marshall Crotty, a 'greater interactive experience.…'"
New Scientist
"We don't actually know why the near side and far side are different." -mission principal scientist Maria Zuber of MIT
The New York Times
"In the annals of academic rivalries, perhaps none is fiercer than the crosstown one between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
The New York Times
"As founding director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T., he heads a biology empire and raises money from billionaires. He also teaches freshman biology (a course he never took) at M.I.T., advises President Obama on science and runs a lab."
The Huffington Post
"A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created an 'almost self-balancing' electric unicycle which he uses to zip around the MIT campus."
The Boston Globe
"In the long and colorful history of vending machines, they have dispensed cigarettes and chewing gum, ice cream and lottery tickets, sandwiches and iPods. But bike helmets?"
The Boston Globe
"...the newly announced MITx initiative for online learning should be a boon not just for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is sponsoring it, but potentially for a region whose economic well-being depends on the adaptability of its universities."
The Economist
"As they describe in Nanoscale Research Letters, they have invented a way of concentrating the energy in the sun’s rays without the need for mirrors. It is, quite literally, a suntrap."
The Wall Street Journal
"As America's baby boomers grow older and creakier, some companies are trying to keep those with hard-to-replace skills fit enough to remain on the job."
CNN
"Every politician in America declares concern for the economic crisis of the middle class. But to truly help the middle class, we must take on our nation's exploding economic inequality." -MIT's Paul Osterman
ABC News
"The New Year's countdown to the moon has begun."
The Wall Street Journal
"The prolonged economic slump has fueled a surge in applications for Social Security disability benefits, with many desperate Americans seeking refuge in the program as a last resort after their unemployment insurance and savings run out."
The New York Times
"President Obama said Tuesday that he would nominate Jeremy C. Stein, a Harvard economist, and Jerome H. Powell, a former private equity executive, to fill the two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve’s board."
The New York Times
"These days, it is often not enough for pharmaceutical companies simply to bring a drug to market. Regulators and insurers are also prodding the companies to develop tests to pinpoint which patients are most likely to benefit from a drug, thereby sparing other patients from needless side effects and expense."