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Newly Published: “Calculated Values” by Assistant Prof William Deringer

Sep 11, 2017

Click here: Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the…

Faculty & Student Mentions, News

Love, quantum physics and ‘entanglement’

Aug 1, 2017

Click to take you to the link for the podcast! There are curious parallels between “love” between two particles and two people. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech  

Faculty & Student Mentions, News

Physics Girl talk Cosmic Bell!

Jul 26, 2017

Faculty & Student Mentions, News

The Cosmic Bell Experiment, with Prof. David Kaiser and Prof. John Durant coordinating with the MIT Museum and Central Square Theater

Jul 26, 2017

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“Operation: Neutrino” The explosive tale of a spy, a ghost particle, and a new physics, by Prof. David Kaiser

Jul 26, 2017

Italian nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo walks through the streets of Moscow following his defection to Russia, 12 March 1955. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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“The Measure of a Fog” by Ian Cheney, a film produced by KSJ/Undark for the Cambridge Science Festival

Jun 7, 2017

The Entire World Would Be Better Off If Donald Trump Just Watched This Video  

Faculty & Student Mentions, Public Engagement, News

Sherry Turkle to speak at 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, Harvard University:“Technology makes us forget what we know about life.”

May 16, 2017

Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises by SOPHIA NGUYEN 3.23.17 WRITER Mark Doty and social psychologist Sherry Turkle will speak at this year’s Phi Beta Kappa…

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2017 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize Winner: John Tylko, Ph.D., HASTS

May 12, 2017

We are pleased to award the 2017 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize to “When Inspiration Yielded to Calculation: Technology and Politics of the SST in the New Frontier,” by John Tylko, a…
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