The Mobile Workshop, The Tsetse Fly, and African Knowledge Production
By Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Summary
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where…
Free Will, Video Games, and the Most Profound Quantum Mystery
By David Kaiser
May 9, 2018
The Big Bell Test probed quantum mechanics using crowdsourced inputs from volunteer video-game players.…
A Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking
By David Kaiser
March 15, 2018
Stephen Hawking was a scientific and cultural revolutionary. He saw the cosmos as no one before him had—and…
link: http://news.mit.edu/2018/four-professors-named-2018-macvicar-fellows-0305
Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows
Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT’s most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.
Alison Trachy | Registrar’s Office
March 5, 2018
This Friday, the…
When numbers started counting
New book by MIT assistant professor chronicles the birth of statistical arguments in public debate.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office | February 5, 2018
Odds are,…
Assistant Professor Robin Wolfe Scheffler of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) has been awarded the 2018 James A. (1945) and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities, a $30,000…
Is Bitcoin a bubble? Here’s what two bubble experts told us
“The tulip bubble was a technology bubble,” a scholar told Ars.
TIMOTHY B. LEE – 12/8/2017, 12:45 PM
Is Bitcoin…