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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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ABC News,
"MIT airline safety expert Arnold Barnett did a study on aviation safety and found that the chance of dying on a scheduled flight, from propeller planes to jetliners, in the United States is 1 in 14 million."
U.S. News Health,
"When children who were blind from birth were able to see for the first time, they weren't immediately able to make the connection between what they were seeing and what they were feeling with their hands, a new study reveals."
Boston Herald,
"A co-production of Underground Railway Theater and Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, 'Breaking the Code' is directed by Adam Zahler and boasts the finest ensemble acting of any local company this season."
BBC News,
"Here (at MIT) concrete is treated with an admiration more often reserved for diamonds or gold, especially by Franz-Josef Ulm, one of the top professors in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering."
The New York Times,
"Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Alone Together,” says that as technology becomes ever more pervasive, our relationship to it becomes more intimate, granting it the power to influence decisions, moods and emotions."
The New York Times blogs,
"We have to think about the process by which something, an idea, develops scientific consensus and a second process by which is developed a social and political consensus."
The Boston Globe,
"Maybe it’s no surprise that, of all institutions, MIT would take clear, concrete steps to bring more women onto campus."
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."
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