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Physics Today: The Year in Review – Books and more that stood out in 2020

Dec 22, 2020

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. READ MORE: Physics Today, The Year in…

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Noam Chomsky: The US Presidential Election, two-part interview with Subrata Ghoshroy, MIT STS Program, MIT Radius

Oct 30, 2020

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…

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“Michael Milken’s Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the Go-Go ‘80s” by Prof. William Deringer

Aug 26, 2020

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…

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Washington Post: A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting the virus now, by Prof. Robin Scheffler

Jul 24, 2020

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…

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Is there really no community transmission of coronavirus in India? Let’s do some math

Apr 24, 2020

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…

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Opinion: California’s San Onofre nuclear plant is a Chernobyl waiting to happen, by Prof. Kate Brown

Nov 20, 2019

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…

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Discovery is always political, by Prof. David Kaiser

Sep 26, 2019

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…

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3 Questions: Why are student-athletes amateurs? MIT Professor Jennifer Light digs into the history of the idea that students aren’t part of the labor force.

Mar 25, 2019

3 Questions: Why are student-athletes amateurs? MIT Professor Jennifer Light digs into the history of the idea that students aren’t part of the labor force. Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office…
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