Reporter’s Notebook: Game Theory
At the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, researchers examine what makes video games click with players — or what doesn't.
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Three of a kind
MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa explains how the hidden similarities of English, Japanese, and some forms of Bantu reveal language’s universal essence.
Good food nation
MIT researchers think America's obesity epidemic can be reversed via ‘foodsheds,’ in which healthier, more affordable food is produced and consumed regionally.
The math gap
MIT economists find a new reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines how well girls do in math class
3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine
The MIT economist blames inadequate incentives for the failure to develop a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS. He argues governments should help industry create an HIV vaccine by sharing risk.
Data points of light
MIT’s undergraduates fight poverty one statistic at a time, thanks to coordination between the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Charter schools, studied
MIT economists are trying to learn how and why some Boston charter schools were able to produce stunning results. What they discover could serve as a lesson for America’s struggling public schools.
All wired up
MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson explains how technology really helps the economy — even as the restructuring it is spurring causes pain.
Saving labor
Political scientist Richard Locke says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken.
He proposes a new solution.
He proposes a new solution.
Against the common gouda
The government regulates how food is produced. MIT anthropologist Heather Paxson studies the rebellious cheese-makers who reluctantly adhere to those rules.
Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, join arm of the National Academies of Science.
MIT alum garners economics nobel
Oliver Williamson '55 a co-winner, for work on the theory of the firm
3 Questions: Robert Solow on the struggle ahead
The MIT Nobel laureate explains why we need more economic stimulus — and more innovation.
3 Questions: Vincent Lépinay on bankers unleashed
An MIT anthropologist, who studies financial practices, discusses how ever-changing banking tools baffle regulators.