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Prof. Kate Brown: “One thing nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive: War”, Washington Post

Mar 21, 2022

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 …

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“Empathy Rules” by Prof. Sherry Turkle

Feb 22, 2022

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…

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Washington Post: The history of using computers to distribute benefits like Biden’s relief checks, by Marc Aidinoff, HASTS graduate student

Mar 10, 2021

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…

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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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