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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 Washington Post,
"The first spoken 'I love you' is a relationship milestone. Josh Ackerman, a psychologist who teaches at MIT, set out to study these early declarations of devotion."
New Scientist,
"Five children in India have helped to answer a question posed in 1688 by Irish philosopher William Molyneux: can a blind person who then gains their vision recognise by sight an object they previously knew only by touch?"
Science News,
"In search of the elusive answer, Held teamed up with MIT colleague Pawan Sinha, who founded an organization in 2003 to help blind children in India. Called Project Prakash, after the Sanskrit word for 'light,' the group collaborates with Indian surgeons who operate to restore sight in children who've been blind from cataracts or other curable causes."
The Boston Globe,
"A long time ago, in a university not far away, this MIT physicist hatched a plan for a bold experiment in space. Now, $1.5 billion and nearly two decades later, it’s finally time for one last adventure: Unlocking the deepest mysteries of the universe."
The Wall Street Journal blogs,
Ernest Moniz, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of MIT’s Energy Initiative, gave four “very sure bets” about the effects of events at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.
Boston.com,
“The great thing about college radio is, you never quite know what you’re going to get," Oedipus says. “You can experiment on college radio, you can try different things, you can be raw. And there’s something very human about that.”
CNBC.com,
The research was designed to "explore the physical boundaries of liquidity" by devising a new way to buy and sell stocks, in turnaround times that were considered impossible due to light-propagation delays, Wissner-Gross told CNBC.com.
Forbes.com,
"Neri Oxman, an architect and professor at the MIT Media Lab, is working on one such set of research — using 3-D printing technology for buildings."
The Wall Street Journal blogs,
"Cutting research funding to narrow the budget deficit would hurt innovation now and for decades to come, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield said to venture capitalists Thursday."
The Wall Street Journal,
"The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is still far from resolved."
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