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Subject: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Made From Scrap: From Debris to Décor

    September 10, 2007
  • All Hail The Fluffernutter: Marshmallow Fluff Turns 90

    October 2, 2007
  • Hammer Speaks at Stanford Business School

    Still Can't Touch Dis: Hammer Nothing like celebrating St. Patrick's Day by learning how to make green, eh laddie? If you'd rather own a bar than hit the bars, spend tomorrow night at Stanford Business School soaking up game from none other than Hammer. The occasion is a panel discussion, sponsored by VLAB (a joint venture capital collaboration between MIT and Stanford) called "New Music Models: New Paths to Revenue and New Opportunities."  Following a networking/meet-and-greet, which shou

    March 17, 2009
  • Clash of the Quackers

    The Bay Quackers tours were a big duck in a small pond until a bigger flock showed up.

    November 12, 2008
  • The American Dream's $700 billion price tag

    October 8, 2008
  • Ask the Experts

    August 16, 2006
  • Coupling

    April 19, 2006
  • Where the Wild Things Are

    A haunting mix of Indonesian music and Shakespearean mystery

    October 19, 2005
  • Anarchism for Dummies

    June 29, 2005
  • Student of Concern

    Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

    May 18, 2005
  • Programming Art

    February 9, 2005
  • Guitar Dreams

    January 7, 2004
  • A Duty to Hack

    April 16, 2003
  • Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

    Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

    November 6, 2002
  • Sound and Vision

    March 13, 2002
  • Machine Love

    February 27, 2002
  • Crying Whale

    Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

    November 21, 2001
  • Songs of Science

    November 7, 2001
  • Looking for God at Berkeley

    A provocative theory called "intelligent design" claims evolution is hogwash. But it's not the usual religious zealots leading the latest attack on Darwin. It's scientists and professors at Cal.

    June 20, 2001
  • Study Thrall

    Brilliance is hip and even -- ahem -- sexy at Intel's Science and Engineering Fair

    May 16, 2001
  • A HAL of an Idea

    Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help.

    November 15, 2000
  • That Was the Wit That Was

    Decades after he left the stage to teach math in Santa Cruz, the voice of legendary satirist Tom Lehrer still echoes

    April 19, 2000
  • Spy vs Spite

    The Clinton administration has praised the Anti-Defamation League for helping shield kids from Internet hate. But should a group that spied on thousands of Californians be allowed to police the Web?

    February 2, 2000
  • Digging Deep

    December 29, 1999
  • Dog Bites

    August 25, 1999
  • The Unsinkable Ralph Henke

    June 16, 1999
  • From Russia With Diamonds

    In 1995, Golden ADA Inc., a San Francisco diamond-importing firm, collapsed, unveiling an international trail of theft and betrayal that embarrassed San Francisco luminaries involved with the company. Now, newly unsealed court files show that high-level m

    July 1, 1998
  • Building a Better Bomb

    While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal

    May 27, 1998
  • Dog Bites

    August 13, 1997
  • System Crashing

    Buying Wired magazine may align you with the digerati, but buying its stock might sink you into poverty

    July 10, 1996
  • Why We Heart Scanwiches

    ScanwichesPrettier than the rose window at Chartres. Tastier, too.​Since 2008, John Chonko's blog Scanwiches has been making us laugh. His beautiful scans of sandwich cross-sections against black backgrounds sometimes look like edible cathedral windows, but in his singular, unwavering focus -- just sandwiches, run through a scanner, with no commentary aside from brief captions -- we've always sensed a mild, straight-faced rebellion in the face of office drudgery. We can imagine ourselves,

    November 18, 2009