In the Media

"YouTube, the world's largest video sharing service, has launched a new school-friendly version of its site."

"InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. today congratulated company cofounder Robert S. Langer for his selection as the recipient of the 2011 the Economist annual innovation award in bioscience."

"A paper by a prominent team of economists says the tax rate for top U.S. earners could be hiked to 83 percent without hurting anyone but the 'mega rich.'”

"Anita Desai's new collection of stories, The Artist of Disappearance, reads a bit like three symphonic movements in a minor key."

"Additive manufacturing, then, is changing not only how things are made, but what is made."

"Worried that you won’t know what to do with yourself in retirement?"

"The aging U.S. population is a potential gold mine for entrepreneurs who can build technologies to help this huge demographic remain active and stay in their homes as long as possible."

"Realizing full benefits from a smart grid ultimately means controlling devices in customers’ homes, businesses, and other facilities. But who should exercise that control, and how?"

"Clad in glass, terra cotta, and granite, the complex will also include retail shops to fill in a large hole in the commercial strip along Massachusetts Avenue, as well as a 1.35-acre park adjacent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"On Monday, MIT released the Future of the Electric Grid after a two year study on the current state and future needs of this critical infrastructure."

"Quantum computing ideas have also influenced chemistry and physics: Several research groups have used quantum-computing analogies to explain the remarkable light-harvesting efficiency of photosynthetic molecules in plants, and to suggest how solar panels might be designed with similar efficiencies." -MIT's Scott Aaronson

"An important aspect of OCW (MIT's OpenCourseWare) is that it forces a discussion of intellectual property and the mission of the university in the dissemination of knowledge with a bit of urgency."

"That's not to say that forming a habit is easy. If it were, we would all be eating our green vegetables, exercising regularly and flossing with great abandon."

"Led by MIT and spurred by a $500 million White House initiative, universities nationwide are helping reinvent one of the country’s most critical industries."

"It's the holy grail of medical breakthroughs, and it just may be at hand. We’re talking about the cure for the common cold, and with it the end of influenza, stomach bugs, polio, hemorrhagic fevers, and quite possibly every other viral infection in the world."