One thing nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive: War
Military strategists commonly target the enemy’s electrical grid. That’s a problem when combat is in a nuclearized country like Ukraine.
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Empathy Rules
by Prof. Sherry Turkle
Sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the phrase anomie to describe a destabilized and destabilizing state when rules and rule givers lose legitimacy. It’s what…
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…