Why Psychedelic Researchers Should Not Push Back Against Decriminalization
-Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, Ph.D.
2019 will go down in the History of Psychedelia as a major tipping point in the collective effort to…
MIT’s STS Program is pleased to announce that it has awarded the 2020 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize to Jesse Gordon, for his essay “The Coronavirus Chronicles: Emergence of a Global Pandemic.” …
MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser explores the complicated history of quantum physics in a new book, “Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World,” published by the University of Chicago Press.…
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…
Double vision
In college, I loved tales of the history of physics as much as I loved the science itself. A kindly professor encouraged me to carve out a dual career…
David Kaiser recently talked to Physics Today via Zoom about using astrophysics to test Bell’s inequality, why the history of physics pedagogy fascinates him, and research in the time of coronavirus.…
Kenneth Keniston, pictured 2nd from right.
Remembering Kenneth Keniston
1930-2020
The Questions Keniston Brought to MIT
Kenneth Keniston, a founder and pillar of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and…