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Discovery is always political, by Prof. David Kaiser
24 September 2019 Discovery is always political David Kaiser traces the roots of government support for science, in the first of a series of essays on how the past 150 years have shaped the research...
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Opinion: California’s San Onofre nuclear plant is a Chernobyl waiting to...
By Kate Brown Nov. 19, 2019 9:59 AM Nuclear accidents often aren’t surprises. Whistleblowers had warned of the dangers before such disasters occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine, and 25 years later...
View ArticleIs there really no community transmission of coronavirus in India? Let’s do...
Op-Ed: Prof. David Kaiser and colleagues help in understanding the likely progression of COVID-19 in India: lack of confirmed cases in a particular region is not very compelling evidence of lack of...
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Washington Post: A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting...
A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting the virus now Government investment in a cancer vaccine had drawbacks Washington Post by Prof. Robin Scheffler The ink is still drying on a...
View Article“Michael Milken’s Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the...
Prof. William Deringer has a new article in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, titled “Michael Milken’s Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the Go-Go ‘80s”. Michael Milken’s...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: The US Presidential Election, two-part interview with Subrata...
From MIT Radius, in sponsorship with the MIT STS Program, the Global Peace and Insecurity Series recently featured an interview with Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and Professor of Linguistics,...
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Physics Today: The Year in Review – Books and more that stood out in 2020
Prof. David Kaiser’s, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (Univ Chicago Press, 2020), is listed as a book that stood out in 2020. READ MORE: Physics Today, The Year in Review: Books...
View ArticleWashington Post: The history of using computers to distribute benefits like...
Marc Aidinoff, MIT HASTS Graduate Student, researches the intersection of technology policy and social policy in the United States. In this piece in the Washington Post, Marc helps frame the current...
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“Empathy Rules” by Prof. Sherry Turkle
Empathy Rules by Prof. Sherry Turkle Sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the phrase anomie to describe a destabilized and destabilizing state when rules and rule givers lose legitimacy. It’s what we...
View ArticleProf. Kate Brown: “One thing nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive:...
One thing nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive: War Military strategists commonly target the enemy’s electrical grid. That’s a problem when combat is in a nuclearized country like Ukraine. By...
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