In the Media

"In his 2008 memoir, Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, the linguist Dan Everett recalled the night members of the Pirahã — the isolated Amazonian hunter-gatherers he first visited as a Christian missionary in the late 1970s — tried to kill him."

"In March 2011 MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. NASA's satellite has been taking measurements since then, and has collected nearly 100,000 images of the solar system's smallest planet, and the one closest to the sun."

"Real-world problems are often incompletely understood, vaguely specified, and connected to a variety of other issues in ways that only become apparent when one tries to solve the problem. Or to put it differently, the tools of the classroom are not sufficient to solve complex real-life problems." -John Minahan, Senior Lecturer in Finance, MIT Sloan

"Carol Browner, former White House adviser on climate change, Eugene Kandel, head of the National Economic Council of Israel, Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, and Ernest Moniz, director of the energy initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, participate in a panel discussion about clean energy." (VIDEO)

"All three sessions raised the significance of reintroducing guilds into organizations."

"For his new video, 'The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station,' MIT student and photographer Alex Rivest took NASA's raw footage of the earth and sky and turned it into a cosmic tableau that's more Millennium Falcon than ISS."

"An aeronautical engineer claims to have solved some of the issues that grounded Concorde, with a supersonic biplane design."

"What makes us who we are? Where is our personal history recorded, or our hopes? What explains autism or schiziphrenia or remarkable genius? Sebastian Seung argues that it’s all in the connections our neurons make."

"The ability to see objects hidden behind walls could be invaluable in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas. Now scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have found a way to do just that."

"Ancient humans have changed the landscape around their settlements in such ways that even today archaeologists can distinguish between 'lived in' spots and those never occupied by humans. Now, two scientists have figured out a more efficient way of locating these sites, via their footprints, from space."

"Bringing the science knowhow and business acumen together was critical for the development of the technology, says Mr Lucchino. 'Everyone tries to work out which is more important. I think they are both equally important,' he says."

"At a time when California’s Silicon Valley dominates the digital innovation discussion, to have three grand prizes in the prominent national competition snared by local start-ups, all with roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows that Greater Boston is a significant hotbed of new technologies, said industry advocates."

"With the fragmentation of the management education market, the popularity of the Sloan Fellows programme is soaring."

"'Ignorance is a good thing' in times of crises, because it supports market liquidity, argues Bengt Holmström (of MIT), the winner of the Banque de France‘s and Toulouse School of Economics‘ inaugural prize in Monetary Economics and Finance."

"When supersonic travel inevitably returns to the skies, the airplanes are going to look a lot different. At least one design harks back to the early days of aviation with a biplane design, rather than a sleek delta-winged jet like the Concorde."