| Summer Tune-up | | | | | | Since 1962, mid-career engineers, biologists, chemists, microbiologists, and biochemists have flocked from afar to take “Fermentation Technology,” the longest-running course from MIT Professional Education. “Sometimes,” says professor of chemical engineering Kristala Prather (pictured), students from the five-day course “teach me things that I can then offer to our own students.” Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery It’s nearly impossible to break a dry spaghetti noodle into only two pieces. A new study shows how and why it can be done. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| NASA student competitors honored for persistence MIT welcomes a team of high school students that had been targeted by racist and misogynistic members of an infamous online forum. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Shaping technology’s future With data-informed models, Jessika Trancik seeks ways to coax progress toward sustainable energy systems. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| What Paris shows us about the history of photography MIT professor’s book develops a new narrative about photography and the ways we use it, from the place where it all began. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Can conspiracy theories be stopped? // Pacific Standard Prof. Adam Berinsky discusses his research examining how information sources impact voters. Full story via the Pacific Standard → |
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| Unexpected effects of climate change: worse food safety, more car wrecks // CNN Researchers from MIT and Harvard studied how climate change could affect food inspections, traffic accidents, and police stops. Full story via CNN → |
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| Researchers identify a brain region connected to pessimism // The Boston Globe A study that identifies the area of the brain responsible for negative thinking could “help scientists better understand how some of the effects of depression and anxiety arise, and guide development of new treatments.” Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| Seals’ whiskers provide a model for the latest submarine detectors // The Economist Prof. Michael Triantafyllou’s study of how seals use their whiskers to detect their surroundings could offer a model for developing underwater sensors. Full story via The Economist → |
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| | | | | The only way we can protect what we love is by actively pursuing a stable, just, and sustainable world. Every action has a consequence. Every inaction perhaps even more so. | | —Paul Michelman, editor in chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review, in his column, “The High Cost of the Actions We Don't Take” Full story via MIT Sloan Management Review → |
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