Climate change makes summer weather stormier yet more stagnant 🌩️ Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation. Full story via MIT News → |
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MLK Luncheon: America’s bank of justice is overdrawn but not bankrupt Rahsaan Hall of the ACLU’s Massachusetts branch delivers keynote at annual MIT event. Full story via MIT News → | |
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The lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber The material’s properties could guide the design of flexible body armor, a new study suggests. Full story via MIT News → |
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From rowing on the Charles to rowing for Puerto Rico Veronica Toro ’16, who began rowing at MIT, recently became the first Puerto Rican woman to qualify for the Pan American Games. Full story via Slice of MIT → | |
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Why cities aren’t working for the working class Professor David Autor’s latest research shows how economic polarization stems from urban job loss. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Why renewables and storage are ready to demonstrate competitiveness // Forbes Institute Professor John Deutch proposes a demonstration project to show how renewable energy could provide 95 percent of electricity generation. Full story via Forbes → |
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The next wave of “unicorn” startups // The New York Times MIT spinoff Benchling is developing software that allows lab scientists to store notes and records in the cloud, and is aimed at enabling scientists to “more easily use the records to collaborate with one another.” Full story via The New York Times → |
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it? // National Geographic Professor Sara Seager discusses her work searching for an Earth-like planet orbiting a sunlike star. “You never know what’s going to happen,” Seager says. “But I know that something great is around those stars.” Full story via National Geographic → |
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Fluffy storytelling robot to be tested in classrooms // New Scientist |
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| | When Janet Elizabeth Freeman-Daily ’78 found out in 2011 that she had stage three lung cancer, she was stunned. The former aerospace engineer did the only thing she could think to do: She turned to research. Freeman-Daily started learning all she could about the disease, and she began to form relationships with other cancer patients online. Eventually, she started a blog, which has led her to became a resource for information in the lung cancer community. Full story via Slice of MIT → | | | Taking this class showed freshman me that everything was going to be OK. | —Nisha D., a sophomore, in her recent MIT Admissions blog post on life-changing classes at the Institute Full story via the MIT Admissions Blogs → | This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by the Smelfie Project. 👃 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your week! —Maia, MIT News Office |
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