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Pulling Punches? Inside Job's Charles Ferguson's Latest: Predator Nation

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Neiman Foundation, Karl Kaysen, Mit, Noam Chomsky, Charles Ferguson Inside Job, Inside Job, Banks. Bailout, Tarp, Books News
Danny Schechter

We need to ask ourselves why this liberal critique will be widely ignored and what we can do to insure it won't be. It is deserving of attention. I respect the prodigious effort, but what is also true is that the elite with whom he eats, or does business, is unlikely to be the agency for change.

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New Take On Needles Could Save Lives, Say Researchers

Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Shots, Video, Needles, Medical Device, Health, Physics, Science, Science News, Technology, Medicine, Jet Injectors, Engineering, Mit, Science News

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 05/25/2012 10:57 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Getting a medical injection in the future should be much le...

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A Solution For Getting Ketchup Out Of The Bottle?

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Non-Stick Surfaces, Non-Stick Coating, Condiment Coating, Ketchup Bottle, Liquiglide, Ketchup, Dave Smith, Mit, Mit Ketchup Bottle, Mit Ketchup, Food News

Science to the rescue, finally. MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists from the Varanasi Research Gr...

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Make A Controller Out Of Almost Anything!

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Video, Banana Piano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maker Movement, Weird Inventions, Massachusetts, Makey Makey, Play-Doh Controller, MIT Media Lab, Mit, Technology News

A pair of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have launched MaKey MaKey, a Kickstarter project with a noble goal ...

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'Creating Innovators'

Tony Wagner | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Early Childhood Development, Montessori, Steve Jobs Quotes, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Montessori School, Childhood Development, Malcolm Gladwell, Entreprenuership, Mit, Harvard University, College News
Tony Wagner

In more than one hundred and fifty interviews for this book -- lengthy conversations with scores of innovators and their parents, teachers, and mentors -- passion was the most frequently recurring word.

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WATCH: App Lets You Swipe Stuff From One Device To Another

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Swÿp, Innovation, Swÿp MIT, MIT Swÿp, Video, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab, Mit, Mobile, Swyp App, Mit Swipe, Technology News

Forget transferring files via email, flash drives or services like Dropbox. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working...

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Harvard, MIT Announce Free Online Courses

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and...

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MIT Makes Wooden Cell Phone (PHOTOS)

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Wood Cell Phone, MIT Wooden Cell Phone, MIT Wood Cell Phone, Slideexpand, Diy Cell Phone, Wooden Cellphone, Mit, College News

Think you can't make a cell phone out of wood? Think again! The people at the MIT media lab have created a DIY cell phone, for those of you so inc...

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WATCH: MIT Scientists Develop Miracle Material

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Video, Self-Cleaning Glass, Nature, Science, Innovation, Science News, Technology, Nanocones, Glass, Mit, Science News

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/26/2012 05:00 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Tomorrow's world looks a bit brighter with MIT's new self-...

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WATCH: MIT Building Gets Turned Into Giant Tetris Game

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Tetris Video Game, Video, MIT Campus, Tetris, Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mit Green Building, Giant Tetris Game, Mit, Hackers, College News

Hackers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brought Soviet-styled 80's fun to the Boston skyline, when they turned the facade of the school's...

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Forget The Living Room. Play Tetris On Buildings!

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, MIT Gallery of Hacks, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Tetris, Linux, Brown University, Green Building, Video Games, Holy Grail of Hacks, Department of Earth, Mit, Arts News

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for being innovative, but don't think these studious young minds only thing about class. On April 2...

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These Are The Best & Worst Colleges For Your Money

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: College ROI, Judson University, Return on Investment, Harvey Mudd College, Medaille College, Notre Dame, Roi Rankings, College Rankings, Meredith College, Stanford, Savannah College of Art and Design, Caltech, Dartmouth, Slidepollajax, Seton Hill University, Mit, College News

College costs a lot, and no one wants to waste four or five years going deep in debt and not get anything for their money. Payscale has extensive d...

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Re-understanding Violence as We Had to Re-Understand Plague..To Cure It

Gary Slutkin | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Baltimore, Mit, Violence, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Ceasefire, The Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Bubonic Plague, Gun Violence, Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Chicago, Epidemic, Epidemiology, The Plague, Conflict Resolution, Saxelab, Chicago News
Gary Slutkin

Human history is filled with tragic blunders that fail to put their finger on the problem, and actually compose a "solution" that has no value. This is where we are today, relying on prisons as solutions to reducing the epidemics of violence.

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Numbers Game: America's Struggle To Make Math Fun

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Math Teachers, Google, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Logic Puzzles, American Schools, Teacher Training, Mindless Behavior, Dimensionu, Mathematics, Math Education, Greyson Chance, Math in America, Math, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School Math, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Math Games, Reuters, University of California at Berkeley, Online Gaming, Museum of Mathematics, Mit, Video, Education News

By Stephanie Simon April 11 (Reuters) - Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's...

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25 Universities With The Best Internet Buzz

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Ucla, College Rankings, Harvard, Virginia Tech, Ivy Leagues, Penn State, UC San Diego, Uc Berkely, Ivy League Schools, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Global Language Monitor, University of Virginia, Slidepollajax, Mit, Cornell, Opencourseware, College News

Which university has the best Internet brand equity? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the best Internet buzz , according to the Global...

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Why Your Brilliant Child Didn't Get Into The Ivies

J.D. Rothman | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: College Admissions, Fieldston, Greenwich, Humor, College Admissions Craze, Ivy League, Outward Bound, Latrines, Stanford, Mit, Parents News
J.D. Rothman

These new Ivy rejects are far from slackers. They're incredible kids with impressive resumes -- 2,350+ SATs, straight As in their 16 APs, debate champions, flute soloists and MVPs.

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15 Celebs Who Went To Ivy League Schools

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: John Legend, Ashley Judd, John Krasinski, Rachel Dratch, Julia Stiles, Dartmouth College, Ivy League Colleges, Paul Giamatti, Matt Damon, Celebrities in College, Emma Watson, Conan O'Brien, Ivy Leagues, Elizabeth Banks, Columbia University, Harvard University, Celebs, Edward Norton, Rashida Jones, Yale University, Ivy League Schools, James Franco, Slidepollajax, Mit, College News

Before Elizabeth Banks had a starring role in 30 Rock and the The Hunger Games, she was a sorority girl at the University of Pennsylvania. Rachel Drat...

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Where Did Google And Apple Employees Go To College?

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Google, Apple, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas, Top Tech Companies, Stanford University, Top Companies, Best Places to Work, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles, Most Popular Place to Work, Mit, College News

More young people would want to work for Google than any other company. Apple is the the second most popular company, according to a survey done by U...

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How To Get In To America's Top Colleges

| The Princeton Review | Posted 03.15.2012

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The Huffington Post teamed up with the Princeton Review, one of the nation’s leading education-services companies, to present this special feature o...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: What's It Feel Like To Age Fifty Years In Fifteen Minutes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.05.2012

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Where's The Best College For Video Game Design?

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: College Students, Masschusetts, Best Video Game Schools, Digipen, Gamers, College, College News, Washington Schools, Undergraduate Colleges, University of Southern California, Students, Princeton Review, Video Game Design, Mit, College News

So you want to design the next Halo or Final Fantasy? Maybe the idea of having the same job as the main character of Grandma's Boy is your dream caree...

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A Worthy Investment

David Boone | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mission Accepted, Scholarships, College Admissions, College Tuition Costs, Mit, College Tuition, College Tuition Hikes, Harvard, Student Loan Debt, Private Colleges, Student Loans, College Acceptance, High School News
David Boone

I am beginning to realize that the majority of my schools cost $200,000 or more to attend. YIKES! There is no way, shy of a miracle, my family can afford such an education.

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The 15 Geekiest Colleges

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Geeks, Reed College, Rice University, UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins University, Geeky Colleges, Top 15 Colleges, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Mit, Inside College, College News

Not every college is tailored toward the student who grew up wearing sweater vests and obsessing over their new TI-83 calculator. However, there a...

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Occupy Harvard Unites Boston Student Movements

The Harvard Crimson | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Occupy Harvard, Northeastern, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Harvard University, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Boston, Harvard Crimson, Harvard, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Mit, College News

More than 80 students from 18 college campuses around the Boston area gathered on Sunday for the Occupy Boston Student Summit held in Emerson Hall....

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Andrew Lo and the Wisdom of Reading 21 Crisis Books

Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Andrew Lo, The Deal, Financial Crisis, Robert Teitelman, Mit, Economics, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Playing catch-up here. MIT economics professor Andrew Lo has written a paper for the Journal of Economic Literature summarizing, with a few general po...

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