Ivory Tower and The Internet’s Own Boy ponder the market value of knowledge.
Tag: MIT
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Biologists evolve in Timeline’s The How and the Why
The How and the Why survives on smarts and at least one great performance.
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Best Project to Chronicle of the Old Southeast Side
The goal, according to the website, is “to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization.”
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Peter Ludlow on Aaron Swartz on NPR
Peter Ludlow argues on NPR’s Talk of the Nation that Internet activist Aaron Swartz did the right thing when he hacked MIT.
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Heroes of civil disobedience: Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Aaron Swartz?
Aaron Swartz, rebel with a cause
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In Exit Zero, the personal implications of an industry’s collapse
In Exit Zero, Christine Walley looks at the personal implications of an industry’s collapse.
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NU’s plans, groupthink, and the legendary Building 20
NU’s new research building won’t be much like MIT’s legendary Building 20
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Reporting From FamilyFarmed: Food in the Schools
Reporting from the annual Family Farmed Expo, where the focus today is on food in the schools.