In the Media

"The model works because most members of society agree the person who's been waiting longest should be served next, he says."

"MIT’s Gabriel Lenz and Chappell Lawson have found that attractive candidates disproportionately benefit from debates, with new support coming especially from less informed voters."

"Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz and Mexican-American filmmaker Natalia Almada both officially became MacArturos on Monday, each receiving a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant."

"EdX and its collaborators are developing tools and teaching models to answer those questions. And they view the project as a means to study even deeper problems, like understanding how people forget—and creating strategies to prevent it."

"Andrew W. Lo, the MIT finance professor and hedge fund manager, wants to bring Wall Street-style financial­ engineering to a crucial social need: curing cancer."

"'It does seem unprecedented that the court would uphold a law and increase support for it,' she said, 'and still experience a hit to its own approval and standing at the same time.'"

"Four Boston-area residents — a celebrated novelist, a Harvard economist, a pediatric neurosurgeon, and a man who carves, shapes, and threads some of the world’s most finely crafted instrument bows — are among 23 people worldwide chosen to be the 2012 MacArthur Fellows and recipients of the foundation’s 'genius grants.'"

"Time travel is a staple of science fiction, with the latest rendition showing up in the film 'Looper.' And it turns out jumps through time are possible, according to the laws of physics, though traveling into the future looks to be much more feasible than traveling into the past."

"Ninety percent of American adults own cell phones and, whether talking or texting, it seems that 90 percent of the time, they are using them."

"Would it surprise you to learn researchers at MIT have an answer that could eventually aid emergency responders? That it involves everyone’s favorite motion-sensing tinker toy, Microsoft’s Kinect?"

"The externship program enables students to work for companies during IAP (the month of January)."

"Thomson Reuters released its annual list of Citation Laureates, esteemed scientists whose contributions to medicine, physics, chemistry and economics make them likely contenders for a Nobel Prize."

"Lost from the discussion is that social data is not like other data — it cannot be calibrated, is often ambiguous, and the traditional tools of data analysis may not apply."

"'What is contemporary Chinese culture?' Mr. Chang, 56 years old, asks. 'I don’t think anyone really knows. But we like to really figure it out to some extent through our work. It’s not just about production of buildings or design. There is this bigger concern.'"

"For the first time, scientists have peered to the edge of a colossal black hole and measured the point of no return for matter."