MIT neuroscientists recently watched the brains of 63 entrepreneurs and managers, and spotted a key difference: Entrepreneurs use their whole orbitofrontal cortexes, enabling them to be more flexible problem solvers.
The glowing faux-ice changes color based on how quickly you’re throwing them back, to let you know if you should pace yourself a little.
Pretty on the outside, but as Fast Company wrote in 2008 it’s plagued with problems.
Yes, MIT, the very apogee of tech sophistication, seems to have bought itself a bright-yellow lemon. The showstopper home for its computer-science, linguistics, and philosophy departments cost $300 million to build ($200 million more than initial estimates) and opened in 2004 (four years behind schedule). And now the school has turned to the courts to express its buyer’s remorse. A lawsuit filed in October against both the construction firm and the architect alleges “design and construction failures,” negligence, and breach of contract, which have cost the university $1.5 million in repairs already, with millions more likely to come.
Scientists at MIT have developed this freaky non-stick coating that keeps ketchup flowing. Amazing solution to an old problem. Also one of the weirdest videos you will see this week.
3-D Printing Is So Last Year.
A great video post from the archives: MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son’s First Words, Graphs It
Cognitive scientist Deb Roy, founder of Bluefin Labs, blew the curve for Flip cam-packing proud pops. Since he and his wife brought their son home from the hospital, Roy has captured his every movement and word with a series of fisheye-lens cameras installed in every room. The purpose was to understand how we learn language.
A visit to MIT’s Geekapalooza, where future Moneyball-ers are scouted, and signed to the major leagues to analyze stats.
The annual sports stat geek conference held at MIT’s Sloan business school is part Star Trek convention, part academic conference, part job fair, part media circus (thanks, ESPN!)—and the future of the $400 billion sports business.
The AGNES suit simulates the experience of being 70 to help designers understand the needs of our aging population.
(This picture is an outtake from our September issue. Read more about Paula at the click!)
Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Paula Hammond makes superthin batteries that can store a lot of energy and discharge—and charge—rapidly
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In case you didn’t get the memo, games are making all kinds of staid or serious things sexy and downright fun now, from business training to dusty libraries to human rights to health care.
Scot Osterweil, research director of MIT’s Education Arcade, is one of the masterminds behind a new science game made for the Smithsonian Institution. The game is a National Science Foundation-funded experiment in “alternative science education.”
See how this grand experiment in “alternative science education” is planned to unfold over the next two months, right here.
The students, alumni, and professors at MIT are a brainy — and busy — bunch. To mark the university’s 150th year, we tracked a handful of smarty-pants with ties to the school.
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