When logic meets rhetoric
Edward Schiappa has studied reason and rhetoric from ancient Greece to “Will & Grace.”
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Drive-by heat mapping
Startup’s thermal-imaging cars can quickly track energy leaks in thousands of homes and buildings.
“Moneyball for business”
Startup’s behavioral analytics on employees uncover ways to increase workplace productivity, satisfaction.
Weekend adventures
Members of a longstanding student group, the Assassins’ Guild, roam an MIT building each Saturday night.
MIT announces steps intended to minimize unwanted sexual behavior
President Reif: “Sexual assault violates our core MIT values. It has no place here.”
Making the case for Keynes
Peter Temin’s new book explains how John Maynard Keynes’ ideas relate to today’s global economy.
Media Lab to launch wellness initiative with $1 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.
New faces on campus
MIT’s newest students include a classical ballerina, a junior Olympic archer, and a battalion commander.
Research reveals a gender gap in the nation’s biology labs
Study of 24 top institutions finds ‘elite’ male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women.
'This is not a ball' spotlights MIT collaboration
New documentary by visiting artist Vik Muniz features MIT alumni and researchers.
When good people do bad things
Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.
From contemporary syntax to human language’s deep origins
New paper amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.