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Scientists Propose Engineering The Atmosphere To Cool Planet

Mother Nature Network | Katherine Butler | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

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Love the blue skies that greet you on a sunny day? Don't get too used to it. Scientists have proposed a last-resort solution to climate change. It inv...

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Obama Visits MIT Research Lab, Tours Cutting Edge Green Technology (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.23.2009 | Technology

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President Barack Obama toured a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he took a tour of some of the cutting ed...

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Meet the U.N. Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Jim Luce | Posted 07.08.2009 | World

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Sudanese Diplomat Francis Deng believes genocide can be anticipated and even stopped before it begins.

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MIT Cuts 8 Sports Teams In Order To Save Money

New York Times | Cate Doty | Posted 05.26.2009 | Home

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High school students with dreams of competing in alpine skiing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, beware: when this academic year ends, the...

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MIT Doubles Warming Warning: Or, Why George Will Should Read Washingtonpost.com

A. Siegel | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Models, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Modeling, Global Warming, Climate Change, Mit, Green News
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We have serious confirmation of how bad our situation can get. And, it was well reported by a part of the Washington Post. A part, we can suspect, that George F. Will and the opinion page editors don't bother to read.

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Being Biracial and Black in the Age of Obama

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

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Casey Gane-McCalla

When Obama was born, it was illegal in 16 states for blacks to mary whites. Today the product of a relationship between a black man and a white woman is the President of the United States.

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Solar Energy Breakthrough

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

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Steven Crandell

This week's discovery -- using solar power to mimic photosynthesis -- could help us use the huge abundance of sun energy in a way that can give power to people everywhere.

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Exclusive Interview: An M.I.T. And A Yale Professors' Cure For The Electoral College

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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I had the chance recently to interview two professors in the field of statistics (from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),...

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M.I.T. Develops Technology To Help World's Poor

The New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Help World's Poor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Living News

M.I.T. has nurtured dozens of Nobel Prize winners in cerebral realms like astrophysics, economics and genetics. But lately, the institute has turned i...

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