In the Media

"Social media for tweens? No. It's better to keep things face to face."

"With the euro-zone crisis intensifying, debt markets are closed to plenty of European banks. Across the Atlantic, it is a different story: While U.S. banks have no problem selling long-term debt, they often aren't keen to do so."

"Iran's fitful approach to resolving the nuclear controversy has thrown up many obstacles, but now it appears ready to find an agreement."

"Diver, entrepreneur, investor, author, occasional DJ, and head of MIT’s Media Lab, Joi Ito is a man in constant motion around the world, spreading his ideas about the internet and technology — and absorbing just as much in the process."

"'The glass half full side of this disaster at McLean is that it will act as a wake-up call to other brain banks to recheck their security systems,' said Suzanne Corkin, a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who specializes in investigating the history and pathophysiology of degenerative disorders."

"In his first book, Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, he (MIT's Sebastian Seung) argues that our individuality lies in our connectome, the complex map of our neurons."

"A few weeks ago I attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The theme of this year’s Symposium was Piloting the Untethered Enterprise: 'In today’s world of mobile, big data and the cloud, how does a CIO successfully pilot his organization towards its goals?'"

"Two years after passage of the Dodd- Frank financial reform law, how are we doing putting in place crucial provisions, including a way to control systemic risk?" -MIT's Simon Johnson

"MIT's Senseable City Lab has partnered with French rail operators SNCF to map delays to high speed trains over the course of a week."

"Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of National Public Radio's popular 'Car Talk' program, will retire in September after decades of dispensing automotive repair and driving advice laced with a side of wicked humor."

"Mobile-game critters need money from their young keepers, and parents are paying. Are the marketers of expensive e-trinkets too eager to take advantage of child consumers?"

"The digital era, with online courses, electronic resources and real-time interaction with faculty thousands of miles away is going to drastically change the way we teach, interact, engage and ultimately learn."

"Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to develop a banana piano."

"According to (MIT's Emile) Bruneau, numerous studies have shown that perspective taking works to improve the attitudes of dominant groups toward stigmatized ones—for example, that thinking about the mind of a homeless person makes us more amenable to helping him—but this method by no means has to translate to groups locking horns with one another."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in the future, based on his or her past - and that of everyone else."