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Harvard Tops U.S. News & World Report’s Best Business Schools Rankings

Once again, Harvard Business School is top dog. Harvard lead U.S. News & World Report‘s 2018 ranking of the best business schools, tying with the […]

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MIT Media Lab Announces $250,000 for Civil Disobedience

Breaking the rules has never felt so good. On Monday, the MIT Media Lab opened applications for its Disobedience Award, a first-of-its-kind prize for an […]

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Curt Schilling Backs Shiva Ayyadurai to Challenge Elizabeth Warren in 2018

Curt Schilling’s interest in a 2018 run for Senate appears to be waning, after the former Red Sox pitcher threw his weight behind Shiva Ayyadurai’s bid to unseat […]

Arts & Entertainment

Trump Might Cut Arts Funding—Of Course Boston’s Museum Directors Are Against It

Oh Mr. President, you didn’t think those reports of potentially cutting the NEA and NEH would go unaddressed by museums themselves, did you? Certainly not […]

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MIT to Establish New Autism Research Center

MIT will establish a brand new autism research center, thanks to a $20 million gift from tech giant Hock Tan and disability advocate Lisa Yang. […]

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Boston’s Colleges Speak out Against Donald Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban

Leaders from Boston’s colleges and universities spoke out against President Donald Trump’s controversial executive orders banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations and barring all refugees from entering […]

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Boston’s March for Science Is Taking Shape

Update: Organizers of the March for Science in Washington, in Boston, and in cities around the country, have announced that they plan to hold their protests […]

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John Kerry Will Speak at MIT

Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to MIT on Monday, where he plans to give a speech on climate change and other topics in […]

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MIT Alum, Hollywood Lawyer Who Helped Kill Gawker File New Libel Suit in Boston

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, the MIT alum who purportedly invented email at age 14, filed a $15 million libel suit Thursday against the tech website Techdirt […]

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Are Your Morals the Same as a Self-Driving Car’s? MIT Wants to Know

A self-driving car experiences brake failure as it approaches a crosswalk. If it continues straight, it will collide with a concrete barricade, killing the female doctor […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Deliver 2017 MIT Commencement Address

Apple chief executive Tim Cook will deliver MIT’s 2017 commencement address, the school announced Thursday afternoon. Cook joined Apple in 1998 and was named CEO […]

Wellness

LED Lights May Be a Promising New Alzheimer’s Treatment, MIT Study Says

A new study from MIT may shed light—literally—on Alzheimer’s treatment. The research, led by MIT neuroscience professor Li-Huei Tsai and published Wednesday in Nature, suggests […]

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Pagu Set to Open This Winter

Opening this month in Cambridge’s innovation district, Japanese-Spanish fusion restaurant Pagu brings a different kind of experiment to MIT turf.

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MIT Profs Oppose Trump Appointments, Stand Up for Science in Letter

Nearly 400 professors at MIT have signed an open letter opposing Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and defending “fact- and reason-based objective inquiry”—a rebuke of a […]

Arts & Entertainment

MIT’s Fourth Hacking Arts Festival

“DNA will be our time machine,” said bio artist Joe Davis in a presentation at MIT’s Hacking Arts Festival this past weekend—an oddly meta statement, […]