How repetition helps art speak to us

Jay Keyser’s new book, “Play It Again, Sam,” makes the case that repeated motifs enhance our experience of artistic works.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
July 1, 2025 • ~8 min

Researchers present bold ideas for AI at MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium kickoff event

Presentations targeted high-impact intersections of AI and other areas, such as health care, business, and education.

Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
June 20, 2025 • ~4 min

A brief history of the global economy, through the lens of a single barge

Ian Kumekawa’s book “Empty Vessel” explores globalization, economics, and the hazy world of short-term transactions known as “the offshore.”

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
June 17, 2025 • ~8 min

Bringing meaning into technology deployment

The MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium showcases projects at the intersection of technology, ethics, and social responsibility.

Danna Lorch | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
June 11, 2025 • ~9 min

Still waiting

75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding extraterrestrial life?

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 10, 2025 • ~6 min

Numbers tell one story about climate change. People tell another.

Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 10, 2025 • ~12 min

“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”

Campus gathers with Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang to explore the Climate Project at MIT, make connections, and exchange ideas.

Office of the Vice President for Energy and Climate • mit
June 10, 2025 • ~4 min

Why are you cursing?

Steven Pinker breaks down the history of taboo words, different categories of swearing, and the meaning conveyed by a bleep

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 2, 2025 • ~8 min

Chance to branch off in new directions

Seven novel research projects awarded grants by Star-Friedman Challenge

Harvard Gazette • harvard
May 21, 2025 • ~11 min

‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’

Panelists in University-wide symposium explore promise, peril of AI in academia

Harvard Gazette • harvard
May 16, 2025 • ~7 min

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