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A Good Feeling
On a beautiful spring day in Boston, Adam Olenn is reminded why he’s glad to be alive. Last week some motherfuckers set off a couple bombs in my city. They planted others, including a bad bit of...
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Study of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents
How Do We Reverse the Cycle? According to a study by David H. Autor, a professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, and Melanie Wasserman, one of the reasons that many men are be struggling...
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Having a Complete Education
James Altucher has a cheat sheet for learning, and traditional schools are not on the list. —- I’m a functional idiot by any measurement. I just realized the highest level of math I’ve used in the...
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Who Needs to Shop on Thanksgiving?
Holidays are for quality time with family and friends, sharing good food, laughter, love and joy–not for shopping. According to a recent 21st Allstate/NationalJournal/HeartlandMonitor poll, among...
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Workaholism isn’t a Valid Requirement for Advancing in Science
Despite macho career advice, it’s time for scientists – and everyone else – to understand that the point is to work smarter, not longer and to strive for a realistic and livable work/life balance. –––...
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What do you want to be a part of? What’s the problem you’ll try to solve? Whatever your answer, it’s not going to be easy. Sometimes your work will hit a dead-end. Sometimes your work will be...
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#StandUpForScience: Scientists and Other Rational Humans Rallied in Boston
Embed from Getty Images — Editor’s note: The featured photo is not from today’s rally. — A public event invitation on Facebook started by “Beka Economopoulus” and 4 co-hosts announced the rally in...
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The Secret to Successful Kids? Letting Them See You Struggle
Embed from Getty Images If at first you don’t succeed, lay on your bathroom floor in the fetal position and weep until sunrise. No? Oh. Just me then? Apparently the saying is something more along...
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Thaddeus Howze on Black Panther, Killmonger, T’Challa, and Young Men
— Thaddeus Howze was a New York native and found his way to the West Coast as a consequence of his military service. He’s a California-based technology executive and author whose non-fiction and online...
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Open Educational Resources
— OVERVIEW In 2002, the Hewlett Foundation began investing in open educational resources (OER), which are high-quality teaching, learning, and research materials that are free for people everywhere to...
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How To Help Humans Understand Robots
By MIT News By Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Scientists who study human-robot interaction often focus on understanding human intentions from a robot’s perspective, so the robot learns to cooperate with...
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Gautam Mukunda: One Conversation Away From a Scholarly Life
By Bryan Wish Gautam Mukunda is an internationally recognized expert in leadership and innovation. He has been everything from an Ivy-League professor to a podcast host. Gautam received his PhD from...
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Robots Dress Humans Without the Full Picture
By MIT News By Steve Nadis | MIT CSAIL Robots are already adept at certain things, such as lifting objects that are too heavy or cumbersome for people to manage. Another application they’re well suited...
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An Easier Way To Teach Robots New Skills
By MIT News By Adam Zewe | MIT News Office With e-commerce orders pouring in, a warehouse robot picks mugs off a shelf and places them into boxes for shipping. Everything is humming along, until the...
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Born of Eugenics, Can Standardized Testing Escape Its Past?
By Deborah Blum Back in the year 2000, sitting in his small home office in California’s Mill Valley, surrounded by stacks of spreadsheets, Jay Rosner hit one of those dizzying moments of dismay. An...
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How I Dealt With Sexism in 1988
I got my engineering degree from MIT in 1988. I spent a summer volunteering because I wanted to serve others before I started working full time. I figured once I began at my new position, I’d be too...
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Broadening Access and Deepening Impact, Starting With Listening
By Gray Milkowski, The Harvard Gazette A little less than a month into her tenure as chief executive officer of Axim Collaborative, Stephanie Khurana has a full plate of priorities. The nonprofit,...
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MIT’s Breakthrough: Cooling Homes Without Electricity
Let’s face it: on a scorching hot day, the sweet hum of an air conditioner feels like a lifeline. But what if that lifeline is actually tying us into a knot of environmental woes? It turns out, our...
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An MIT Student’s Discovery of Faith
I became a Christian at MIT. Think about that for a second. MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is associated with high-achieving technologists and scientists. It’s a place where logic,...
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The 3-Point Shot Isn’t Worth What It Used To Be
By Matt Michael – Syracuse U. When the NBA celebrated the start of its 75th season in the Fall of 2021, it was clear that the 3-point shot adopted by the league in 1979-80 had transformed the sport....
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