Marc Aidinoff, MIT HASTS Graduate Student, researches the intersection of technology policy and social policy in the United States. In this piece in the Washington Post, Marc helps frame the current…
Prof. David Kaiser’s, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (Univ Chicago Press, 2020), is listed as a book that stood out in 2020.
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From MIT Radius, in sponsorship with the MIT STS Program, the Global Peace and Insecurity Series recently featured an interview with Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and Professor of Linguistics, University…
Prof. William Deringer has a new article in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, titled “Michael Milken’s Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the Go-Go ‘80s”.
Michael…
A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting the virus now
Government investment in a cancer vaccine had drawbacks
Washington Post
by Prof. Robin Scheffler
The ink is still…
Op-Ed: Prof. David Kaiser and colleagues help in understanding the likely progression of COVID-19 in India: lack of confirmed cases in a particular region is not very compelling evidence of lack…
By Kate Brown
Nov. 19, 2019
9:59 AM
Nuclear accidents often aren’t surprises. Whistleblowers had warned of the dangers before such disasters occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine, and 25 years…
24 September 2019
Discovery is always political
David Kaiser traces the roots of government support for science, in the first of a series of essays on how the past 150 years…