Sherry Turkle’s most recent book, “The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir” (New York: Penguin Press, March 2021) is listed as one of the top 30 favorites reviewed by the New York Times…
For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges.…
THE SHIFTING TERRAIN OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
I have a couple of questions that are on my mind these days. One of the things that I find helpful as an historian of…
Read the introduction to Enduring Cancer, by Prof. Dwai Banerjee, on Duke Press website: http://ow.ly/BdId50A38AN
MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser explores the complicated history of quantum physics in a new book, “Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World,” published by the University of Chicago Press.…
In cancer research, a winding road to discovery
Book by MIT professor examines the circuitous history behind the investigation of cancer as a contagious illness.
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Chernobyl: How bad was it?
A scholar’s book uncovers new material about the effects of the infamous nuclear meltdown.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
March 5, 2019
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The Mobile Workshop, The Tsetse Fly, and African Knowledge Production
By Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Summary
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where…