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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 Wall Street Journal,
"The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is still far from resolved."
WBUR,
The MIT Dome dressed up as R2D2 from Star Wars. A mock moon lander on top of the dome. Even better, an MIT police car on top of the dome.
The New York Times blogs,
"Charles W. Forsberg, the executive director of M.I.T.’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project, notes that if you simply put a teacup of water in a microwave oven, some of the water molecules will come apart. But there are reasons, he and others say, that Fukushima is particularly vulnerable."
Forbes.com,
"The pieces struck me a “quick hit” commentary on our increasing dependence on technology and social media — something which periodically causes us societal anxiety, addressed recently by MIT technologist Sherry Turkle in her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other."
The Wall Street Journal,
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has alliances with half a dozen schools, recently teamed up with Sabanci School of Management in Turkey."
BBC,
"Lead author of the paper, Monte Winslow, of the David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, said understanding the role of the gene may help scientists develop new drugs."
Boston.com,
“The keys to revitalizing East Boston’s business district may lie in building bridges among its ethnically and linguistically diverse populations and finding solutions to space issues in this dense urban area.”
CNET,
“Despite having a plethora of wireless technologies built-in — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc. — there's no simple way to transfer "clippings" of data from one device to another. But a new research project at MIT called Sparsh is aiming to fix that oversight.”
The Wall Street Journal blogs,
“The German government’s official spokesman found himself forced to defend his decision to announce official government business via Twitter.”
Boston.com,
"Using more than two miles of toilet tissue and one infinite corridor at MIT, a group from St. Mark's School claim to have wiped out the world record for folding paper Sunday."
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