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WATCH: Can You Tell Which Of These Smiles Is Fake?

Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Emotions, Science of Emotions, Video, Fake Smile, Empathy, Physiology, Media Lab Smile, Psychology, MIT Media Lab, Smile, Science News

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain," William Shakespeare, Hamlet Hamlet may have been able to see through a fake smile, but it's hard for...

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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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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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Memo to Mayor Bloomberg: Let Them Make Games!

Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Idit Harel Caperton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Videogames, Globaloria, World Wide Workshop, Education Reform, Gaming, Technology, Learning, Seymour Papert, Mit, NYC Schools, Harvard Graduate School of Education, New York City, Howard Gardner, Computer Science Education, David Perkins, MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, Fred Wilson, Education News
Idit Harel Caperton

Children learn best when they are the designers, builders, navigators, engineering and key operators of their own learning.

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The Bomb, Intellectually Speaking

Max Lugavere | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Education, Art, New York, TED Conference, Tedyouth, Chris Anderson, Adam Savage, Science, Max Lugavere, Albert Einstein, Ted, MIT Media Lab, Education News
Max Lugavere

I had the recent pleasure of attending TEDYouth, the first-ever TED event for young people.

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Meteoric Business Innovation at MIT

Gideon Gartner | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Joi Ito, The Financial Times, Ed Roberts, Mit, MIT Media Lab, MIT Mechanical Engineering, MIT Education, Lisa McGurrin, MIT Innovation, College News
Gideon Gartner

Many of my mechanical engineering learning experiences at MIT bored me to tears. One exception was an undergraduate course called "Creativity," which possibly influenced my entrepreneurial future.

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College Dropout To Head MIT Media Lab

Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Joi Ito MIT, The Northeast, MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, Mit, College News

Joi Ito, a self-taught venture capitalist, former disc-jockey and godson of Timothy Leary, has been named the new head of MIT's prestigious Media Lab....

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The President Uses His Bully Pulpit

Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Safety, Balkam, Facebook, Cyberbullying, Fosi, Barack Obama, Bullying, MIT Media Lab, Technology News
Stephen Balkam

Turns out the young Barack Obama was teased and taunted -- a telling admission by the leader of the free world that words are as bad (and sometimes worse) than sticks or stones.

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Learning Environments that Crack Open Brains (and Souls)

Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Technological Innovation, Education, Education Innovation, Learning, MIT Media Lab, Seymour Papert, Gloabaloria, Marvin Minsky, Nicholas Negroponte, Tod Machover, Hiroshi Ishii, Frank Moss, Pattie Maes, Creativity, Computer Programming, Social Network, Imagination, Videogame Making, World Wide Workshop, Stem, Steam, Education News
Idit Harel Caperton

Researchers at the Media Lab, are letting their brains crack open, dreaming up big ideas, combining art and science and play, producing and presenting their demos, and inventing their future.

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Get Inside the Celebrity Factory

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris Hilton, Teenage Paparazzo, Lindsay Lohan, Sundance Film Festival, Perez Hilton, Austin-Visschedyk, Henry Jenkins, Adrian Grenier, Jake Halpern, Matt Damon, Entourage, Alec Baldwin, MIT Media Lab, Whoopi Goldberg, Entertainment News
Thomas de Zengotita

What makes Adrian Grenier's Teenage Paparazzo unique is that it is presented through the eyes a teen and his family. We see, from their point of view, the compelling attractions and insidious risks of celebrity culture.

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Jobs for a "Two Billion Global Workforce"

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workforce, Ethiopia, Mit, Africa, Economy, Mobile Phones, Crowdsourcing, Jobs, Federal Reserve, Information Technology, Stanford, Celebrity, Cellphones, Computer Science, Technology, Computer, MIT Media Lab, Mobile Money, Kenya, Eprom, Impact News
Alexia Parks

What type of jobs would you assign if you could mobilize two billion people in major cities in 60 countries around the world?

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MIT Math Whiz Designs Sneaks Lined With Code

Wired | Jenna Wortham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Maeda, Mit, Designer Sneakers, Sneakers, MIT Media Lab, Business News

Freak for sneaks? And math? This pair of tricked-out kicks might tickle your fancy. John Maeda, renowned mathematician, graphic designer and professo...

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