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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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Bloomberg Businessweek,
"It’s as if $2.5 trillion worth of stuff—the equivalent of the entire U.S. economy circa 1958—materialized out of thin air."
The Boston Globe,
Rev. John Crocker Jr., a civil rights activist and former chaplain at Brown University and at MIT, has died at 88.
Forbes,
"Two of the hottest stories on Forbes.com in the past week or so have been about SOPA (226,810 views!) and MITx (539,810 views!!)."
The New York Times- Wheels,
"According to Christopher Knittel, a professor of applied economics at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, if weight, horsepower and torque were held to their 1980 levels, and efficiency-boosting technologies continued to be honed — fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks would have increased by almost 60 percent from 1980 to 2006, from a present average of 23 miles per gallon across the fleet to approximately 37 m.p.g"
Nature,
"This May, the biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, whose career has mirrored the growth and diversity of molecular genetics, will retire from laboratory research and from most public speaking on women and science."
The Huffington Post,
"They’ve created a suit called AGNES—short for “Age Gain Now Empathy System” -- that simulates the trials and tribulations that come with your average 70-year-old body, by using various braces, bands, and other tricks to limit wearers' mobility, and give them a glimpse of senior citizen discomfort."
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
"The Indian Institutes of Technology have agreed to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Consortium, enabling anyone to access online the course content of the elite engineering schools, reports The Times of India."
Bloomberg,
"Although there are notable exceptions, most journalists have limited training in economics, and those who edit the articles often have even less. Hence, out of an understandable but misguided sense of fair play, there is a bias toward wanting to show both sides of an issue."
CNN Money,
"The CityCar is just one example of how MIT's Changing Places group envisions the urban lifestyle of 2022."
Forbes,
"Just making the coursework available for free, of course, doesn’t make people use it, no matter how good it is. MITx adds the incentive of an “official certificate of completion” for each class and, according to my Forbes.com colleague James Marshall Crotty, a 'greater interactive experience.…'"
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