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What did you do with your college acceptance letters that you no doubt received at the tardy age of 18? Frame them? How utterly terrestrial of you. 16-year-old Erin King, answering the challenge to "hack" the cardboard tube that MIT sealed her Early Action admission letter in, sent it to near-space on a balloon, thus proving that all those model rockets I built with my dad when I was little were essentially kits for people MIT would consider "challenged." More »
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At MIT, efforts to recruit and retain female faculty have produced big gains. But now women face another obstacle: the perception that the school's trying too hard to help them. More »
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Long before Karen Owen created her world-captivating Fuck List for Duke's female sexual consumers, two sexually liberated women created the "Consumer Guide to MIT Men." It was modern, sophisticated...and kinda nasty. More »
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Says an MIT researcher: "People are more likely to identify a designer handbag as authentic if the individual carrying it wears expensive clothes or has a certain aura that says rich person." [Bloomberg] More »
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Personas, part of the Metropath(ologies) art installation on display at the MIT Museum, generates a visualization of a person's online identity. We entered a few famous names to see if the internet knows something about them that we don't. More »
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Have you heard the one about the crazyhair Hawaiian who went to Boston Logan Airport with a bunch of play-doh in her hands and a bomby-looking thing strapped to her hoodie that she said was just an art project but then she turned out to be totally smart enough to make an actual bomb? Yeah, we weren't sure what to make of the whole thing either, except for like, "Star Simpson," what a name; and um, the Massachusetts state police really aren't taking any measures not to sound like they've been overdosing on anabolic steroids, have they? (And also, is this prank more or less funny if she was aware that two al Qaeda camp alums actually hijacked a Turkish plane using a fake bomb that turned out to be play-doh last month?) So anyway, we were wondering to ourselves, she's probs not against us, but is she with us? Do we care? And then we read about Star's latest project at MIT on her online resume: More »
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