Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
by SOPHIA NGUYEN
3.23.17
WRITER Mark Doty and social psychologist Sherry Turkle will speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa…
We are pleased to award the 2017 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize to “When Inspiration Yielded to Calculation: Technology and Politics of the SST in the New Frontier,” by John Tylko, a…
A Cosmic Controversy
A Scientific American article about the theory of inflation prompted a reply from a group of 33 physicists, along with a response from the article’s authors.…
STS faculty member William Deringer has been awarded a fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University for 2017-’18. The Davis Center seeks to foster interdisciplinary…
QUANTUM THEORY BY STARLIGHT
By David Kaiser
February 7, 2017
In parsing the strange dance of subatomic particles, it can be helpful to think of them as twins.IMAGE BY CHRONICLE /…
Stars align in test supporting “spooky action at a distance”
Physicists address loophole in tests of Bell’s inequality, using 600-year-old starlight.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
February 6, 2017
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