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Simon Johnson: We're Setting Ourselves Up For A Big Catastrophe, 'Crisis Is Just Beginning' (VIDEO)

Posted 01.07.2010 | Business

Read More: Economy, Cnbc, Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Banks, Simon Johnson, Emmergeing Markets, China, Mit, Business News

Simon Johnson, the MIT professor and economist who's long been a strident critic of "too big to fail" institutions, appeared on CNBC this morning and ...

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Economists are Irrational!

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Mit, Invisible Hand, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Economics, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Princeton, Behavioral Economics, Paul Krugman, Free Market, Adam Smith, Business News
Dr. Jim Taylor

Given what has happened to our economy in the last decade, it's hard to believe that any of the "freshwater," "efficient market" economists still have jobs, much less, credibility in how the economy actually works.

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Digital Dieting

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Ipod, Mit, Twitter, Books, Email, Facebook, Diet, Cell Phone, Computer Games, Add, Digital Age, Digital, Solitaire, Stanford, Slow, Freecell, Books News
Jacqueline Leo

Why do we group so many things in sevens? Seven is more than a lucky number. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

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Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Dies At 94

AP | POLLY ANDERSON | Posted 12.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Paul Samuelson, Paul Samuelson Obituary, Paul Samuelson Obit, Economics, Paul Samuelson Dead, Nobel Prize in Economics, Economist, Nobel Prize, Massachusetss Institute of Technology, Mit, Paul A. Samuelson, Business News

NEW YORK — Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, helped shape tax policy...

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Clothing For Abused Women Could Record Domestic Violence

The Boston Globe | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology

Read More: Domestic Violence Clothing, Mit, Domestic Violence, Physical Abuse, Clothing Record Abuse, Technology News

MIT researchers are working on sensor-studded women's clothing that would record assaults on them and store the data on a computer. The idea is to pro...

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Should Teachers Be Selling Lesson Plans?

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Open Courses, Mit, Creative Commons, American Federation of Teachers, Teachers, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans for Teachers, Teacher Resources, Politics News
Esther Wojcicki

While it is an interesting alternative for teachers to have the option of selling their lesson plans, realistically the culture of teachers nationwide is one of sharing, not selling.

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Obama at MIT: The Nation that Leads in Clean Energy Will Lead Global Economy

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Speech, Mit, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Operation Free, Veterans, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Obama made an important point, saying that while innovation and discovery have always been part of the American DNA, there is no guarantee that we will lead the world in clean energy.

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Sloan Rap Video: MIT MBA Students Record "Welcome To Life At Motherf****** Sloan" Song

Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: I'm at Sloan, Business School, Sloan, MIT Rap Video, I'm on a Boat, MIT Sloan, Sloan Rap Video, MIT MBA Students, Mit, Business News

Four MIT business school students released this YouTube video today, introducing the e-world to life at mother******* Sloan. In this spoof of The ...

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Five Things Obama Should Say in Friday's MIT Climate Change Speech

Jessy Tolkan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, MIT Speech on Climate Change, Mit, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Green News
Jessy Tolkan

This is a critical time for President Obama to weigh in on climate change, as the coming months will have a lasting impact on our policy, security and quality of life going forward.

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SuperFreakonomics Authors Forced To Answer Critics

Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Superfreakonomics, Freakonomics, Mugging, Carbon Dioxide, Caldeira, Carnegie, Dubner, Levitt, Global Cooling, Al Gore, Global Warming, Mit, Books News

Since we posted the video and teaser for SuperFreakonomics, the follow up to the bestseller Freakonomics, there's been an outcry from scientists over ...

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Artist As Citizen: Judge Our Climate Contest

Richard Reiss | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Art, Education, Filmmaking, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Sculpture, Design, Artists, Climate Change, Photo Essay, Global Warming, Artist as Citizen, The Future, Risk, Communication, Mit, Green News
Richard Reiss

Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.

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MIT Experiment: Predicting Sexuality Based On Facebook Friends

The Boston Globe | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Mit, Facebook, Gaydar, Technology News

Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether ...

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Cancer Breakthrough! Drug Compound Identified That Kills Cancer Stem Cells

Bloomberg.com | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Mit, Cure for Cancer, Cancer, Home News

A drug that can selectively target and kill the stem cells that drive the growth of tumors has been identified for the first time by scientists who s...

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The Daily Show Lampoons Harvard's MBA Ethics Oath (VIDEO)

Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: The Daily Show, Mit, John Oliver, Daily Show Mba Video, Mba, Harvard, MBA Ethics Oath, Business News

Last night, The Daily Show poked fun at a recent push at Harvard to establish a sort of hippocratic oath for MBA students. Harvard's business ethics p...

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How to Get Your Own Barack Obama Identity Documents

Keith Thomson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mit, Birther-Movement, Fake IDs, Forgery, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate, Sarah Palin, President Obama, Politics News
Keith Thomson

You want your own Kenyan Barack Obama birth certificate? All you need is about $200 and an internet connection or telephone to place the order.

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Climate Expert: GOP Distorted My Findings On Cap-And-Trade Cost

The Grist | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Mit, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Pollution, Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, Politics News

he experts at the MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change have long been advocates of cap-and-trade as an appropriate policy instru...

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MIT Developing Concrete That Lasts for 16,000 Years

inhabitat.com | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Mit, Carbon Emissions, Civil Engineers, Green, Environment, Green Building, Green Living, Green Buildings, Concrete, Green News

The use of this new ultra high density concrete will have enormous environmental implications, given its ability to deliver lighter, stronger structur...

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MIT Cuts 8 Sports Teams In Order To Save Money

New York Times | Cate Doty | Posted 05.26.2009 | Home

Read More: MIT Sports Teams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mit, Home News

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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Cap and Tirade: Bachmann Repeats Falsehood

The Uptake | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Cap and Trade, Mit, Cap-and-Trade, Green News
The Uptake

For us to know if Rep. Bachmann is "willfully lying" vs "unwittingly misrepresenting" we would have to know if she knew the author of the MIT report had spoken out on the subject.

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Flight Check: What Are the Chances I'll Die on My Next Plane Trip?

Ben Sherwood | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Arnold Barnett, Continental Airlines, Aviation Safety, Airplane Crash, Risk of Death, Mit, Turkish Airlines, Survival, Living News
Ben Sherwood

In the US, you could fly every day for the next 164,000 years on average before you would perish in a crash.

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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
A. Siegel

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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Why Does Abiotic Oil Theory Ignite Peak Oil Theorists' Fulminations??

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business

Read More: M.I.T., London School of Economics, A.a.P.G., Peak Oil, Oil, Russian-Ukrainian Theory of Abiotic Petroleum, V.A. Krayushkin, Abiotic Oil, Peak Oil Theory, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Clearly something is afoot in the attempt to quash any and all discussion of the "Abiotic Oil Theory."

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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

Read More: Winner Take All, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Elector, Electoral Vote, Statistics, Mit, Chance, Proportional, Arnold Barnett, Democrat, Mathematics, Battleground State, Election, Barack Obama, Interview, Yale, Elections, Politics, Political Theory, 50-State Strategy, Weighted Vote System, National Popular Vote, Chance Magazine, Vote, American Statistical Association, Political Science, Electoral College, Constitutional Amendment, Edward Kaplan, Popular Vote, Wvs, Politics News
Chris Weigant

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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Solar-Powered Home, No Panels Needed

Discovery News | Alyssa Danigelis | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Solar Windows, Mit, Solar Concentrator, Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Computer Science, Marc Baldo, Solar-Powered Home, Solar Power, Green News

A "solar concentrator" might sound like something an evil genius comes up with to destroy the Big City in a comic book, but it's actually a way to mak...

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Never-Ending Alimony in Massachusetts

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Harvard, Lifetime Alimony, Mit, Divorce Lawyers, Alimony Reform, Equal Protection., 2nd Wives, Justice, Massachusetts Divorce Lawyers, Alimony, Civil Unions, Massachusetts Civil Unions, Massachusetts, Politics News
Elizabeth Benedict

Divorce in Massachusetts means never have to say goodbye to your ex. Decades after your divorce, you can be dragged to court, or you can do the dragging yourself.

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