Michael John Gorman, the Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the MIT Museum and Professor of the Practice of Science, Technology, and Society, has published an OpEd, titled “When…
Mohamed Suufi
Computer Science and Molecular Biology major
Science, Technology, and Society minor
What’ve you enjoyed most about your area of study? Was there a particular discovery, new skill or way…
Lasya Balachandran
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major
Mathematics major
Science, Technology, and Society minor
What’ve you enjoyed most about your area of study? Was there a particular discovery, new skill…
Lila Chen
Computer Science and Engineering major
Science, Technology, and Society minor
What’ve you enjoyed most about your area of study? Was there a particular discovery, new skill or way of…
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.
By …
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.
READ MORE: Physics Today, The Year in…