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MIT in the Media

The following news clips about MIT, updated on a regular basis, are just a partial selection of our most recent media coverage.
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The New York Times,
"In October, with support from two Media Laboratory videographers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paula Aguilera and Jonathan Williams, Dr. Hidalgo began posting online a series of video interviews with local scientists."
NPR's Here and Now,
"Even as the debt crisis continues to grow in Europe, the debate there has shifted."
The Boston Globe,
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities, as well as companies like Cabot Corp., the giant chemical company in Boston, are hoping Massachusetts can become a center for a burgeoning graphene industry."
The Boston Globe,
"Meanwhile, the Changing Places Group at MIT’s Media Lab is working on a new vision for urban driving: a car that can be folded to fit into the tightest parking spaces."
The New York Times,
"In 'Rethinking a Lot,' a new study of parking, due out in March, Eran Ben-Joseph, a professor of urban planning at M.I.T., points out that 'in some U.S. cities, parking lots cover more than a third of the land area, becoming the single most salient landscape feature of our built environment.'"
Reuters,
"The central question for middle class Americans, however, is: What quality of job is being created?"
The Boston Globe,
"Rev. Crocker, a civil rights activist and Vietnam War opponent while serving as a chaplain at Brown University and at MIT, died last Friday in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge."
Wired,
"All factors being equal, fuel economy increased 60 percent in that time, Knittel notes in 'Automobiles on Steroids,' published in American Economic Review. If we were driving cars that featured today’s drivetrain tech but had the weight and power of vehicles in the Reagan era, the average fuel economy of the American fleet would have climbed from 23 mpg in 1980 to roughly 37 mpg today."
The Economist,
"The destruction part is easy to see: downturns kill businesses, leaving boarded-up windows on the high street as their gravestones. But recessions may also spur the creation of new businesses."
MSNBC,
"North Americans should breathe easy: New research confirms that the continent has eroded very little over the past 1.5 billion years and, in all likelihood, won’t shed much ground in the next billion years, either."
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