Observing the observers
MIT Sloan’s Juanjuan Zhang studies how people make decisions — even life-and-death decisions — based on observation and inference.
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Study: Having Medicaid increases emergency room visits
Unique study on Oregon’s citizens sheds light on critical care in the U.S.
Telecommunications data show civic dividing lines in major countries
New study uses network data to show communication patterns and divisions in many major nations.
The surprising story of Mongolian shamanism
MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.
How should we use our intelligence?
MIT event exposes fault lines among high-ranking former government officials on NSA’s data-gathering programs.
Polarized labor market leaving more employees in service jobs
Study: U.S. job market is putting more workers in positions with limited upside and leverage.
New medical operations
At MIT’s ‘Innovations in Health Care’ conference, industry experts discuss how to maintain quality while reining in costs.
3 Questions: Benjamin Olken on the economic impact of climate change
MIT economist has co-authored a new survey on the burgeoning research about the effects of the changing climate.
3 Questions: Alan Berger on cities and health
New report from MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism examines the best ways to help public health in metropolitan areas.
Doing the math
MIT management professor Vivek Farias crunches the numbers to see how complex systems can be optimized.
A new path for growth
In a new book, MIT political scientist Ben Ross Schneider sets out an agenda for growth with greater equality in Latin America.
Doctor, doctor: Why the job market for married couples in medicine works well
New study in the growing ‘market design’ field of economics explains how a job-market algorithm helps land couples in the same locations.
How green is your city? And how do you know?
In a new book, an engineer and an architect lay out a program for urban development based on the cold hard facts about environmental sustainability.
Building culture in digital media
Fox Harrell’s new book presents a ‘manifesto’ detailing how computing can create powerful new forms of expression and culture.
The ‘Great Rent Wars’ of New York
Historian Robert Fogelson’s new book uncovers the origins of rent control in a World War I-era fight between tenants and landlords for control of New York real estate.