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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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Washington Post,
"Ted Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and I recently completed a detailed technical study of the proposed missile defense system. Our main conclusion was that the system as planned would 'result in an apparent paradox.'"
NPR,
"Tickle a particle here, and its partner should instantly dance, no matter how far away it had traveled."
BBC News,
"The water-filled bowls, when rubbed with a leather-wrapped mallet, exhibit a lively dance of water droplets as they emit a haunting sound. Now slow-motion video has unveiled just what occurs in the bowls; droplets can actually bounce on the water's surface."
PBS' Idea Lab,
"The smell of public activism wafted across this year's Knight Civic Media conference at MIT."
Los Angeles Times,
"You will learn a lot from 'For the Love of Physics': How to see rainbows in the shower and fogbows in the fog (car headlights; pull over); how to give yourself a halo; how to make a battery with a potato, a penny, a nail and a couple of wires."
The Boston Globe,
"Back then, grandmothers didn’t e-mail, and Facebook, Twitter, and iPhones didn’t exist. Teens argued with their parents about watching too much TV, not whether they could text all night long. Politicians lost their jobs for real-life sex scandals, not virtual ones."
New Scientist,
"Only the most hardcore puzzle-solvers ever go beyond the standard 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, attempting much larger ones."
Boston Herald,
“It’s not about stitching devices together, it’s about stitching people together,” Borovoy told the crowd.
The Wall Street Journal,
"We have all encountered the problem. You visit a site and suddenly a serious and convincing looking pop-up appears on your screen to tell you that your system has a virus on it. Most people just ignore them, but a few users are so scared that they pay."
TIME,
"As the country attempts to lift its population by a fifth over the next two decades, from 5.08 million to 6 million, it is linking with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to devise ways to manage its expansion — knowledge it plans to export to other cities."
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