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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,
"We're not just a brain in a jar, our body is fundamentally tied to our understanding of the world." — Story on haptic research by Joshua M. Ackerman, an assistant professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Scientific American,
Imagine that the same rechargeable battery in your cell phone could power a device that requires 10 times the energy. That possibility may be closer than you think. — Story on battery research out of MIT by Yang Shao-Horn and Paula Hammond
The Boston Globe,
"French should be taught as a foreign language for Haitians, with Creole as the language of instruction." — OP/ED by Michel DeGraff on the language barrier in Haiti
New York Times,
"Mr. Mitchell was one of the world’s most respected theorists about the future of the city and the automobile." — New York Times piece on Bill Mitchell, who passed away Saturday at the age of 65
The New York Times,
"Over and over, kids raised the same three examples of feeling hurt and not wanting to show it when their mom or dad would be on their devices instead of paying attention to them." — Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, on parents' technological distractions
Los Angeles Times,
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors nationwide fell slightly in the first quarter compared with the last quarter of 2009. — Story on commercial property values and the MIT Center for Real Estate index
Money,
"We are quite a ways away from a detailed understanding of all the myriad things that caused the crisis." — Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, on the understanding the financial crisis.
WBZ-TV,
VIDEO: MIT researchers working on easier allergy test
The New York Times,
"We don't have alternatives ready to be deployed tomorrow." — Chemical engineering professor Greg Stephanopoulos on the present and future of off-shore drilling
Popular Science,
An MIT team aims to bring aviation into the 21st century with two bold new designs for commercial airliners that could trim fuel use by up to 70 percent while increasing passenger capacity.
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