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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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Science News,
“They found a design with rear-wheel steering that can be ridden and is self-stable,” says David Gordon Wilson, a retired MIT professor who designed the modern recumbent bicycle in the early 1970s. “That’s quite amazing.” — Story about a paper on the physics of bicycling, co-authored by MIT alumnus Jim Papadopoulos ‘79.
Reuters,
In an echo of Mr. Spence, Mr. Autor finds that technology has had a "polarizing" impact on the U.S. workforce -- it has made people at the top more productive and better paid and hasn't had much effect on the "hands-on" jobs at the bottom of the labor force. But opportunities and salaries in the middle have been hollowed out.
Bloomberg Businessweek,
"It's an unhealthy dynamic, where just because you're admitted to a certain set of schools, companies come to find you," Wilbur says. "This isn't the way the world works."
Financial Times,
"MIT’s Sloan Management Review suggested on the basis of this study that partial benefits might accrue to faking optimism. Appearing to be optimistic even when you are not might get you some of the deep optimism advantage." — (registration required to view)
Wall Street Journal blogs,
"In a speech at an MIT symposium, Berners-Lee compared access to the Web with access to water."
The Boston Globe,
"Director Adam Zahler’s imaginative vision for the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT and Underground Railway Theater’s current production emphasizes that notion with a set that suggests the audience’s perspective is inside Turing’s mind, with the outside world revolving all around him."
Nature,
"In the latest work, published today in Science, Geim and an international team of colleagues show that graphene could be used to make a new generation of so-called 'spintronic' devices."
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."
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