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    Adding Depth to the Popular Discussion of Transgender Rights

    Professor Edward Schiappa’s new book carefully surveys recent public debates about a vital societal issue.

     
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    MIT’s “3 Questions”: Making the 2021-22 School Year Work for Students

    Associate Professor Justin Reich co-authors a new report on reimagining schools for a post-pandemic world.

     
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    Pondering the Unknowable

    Alan Lightman’s new book explores the riddles of origins, infinities, and other bafflements brought to us by modern science.

     
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    Q&A: Seth Mnookin on Covid-19 and the public understanding of science

    “The response is varying a lot in different parts of the country, in many cases according to the political leanings of an area or a region. And that’s going to cause real problems.”

     
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    Design, power, and justice

    In new book “Design Justice,” Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock examines how to make technology work for more people in society.

     
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    3 Questions: Alan Lightman’s new novel about Cambodia and family

    MIT writer’s new work, “Three Flames,” explores the fractures and bonds among kin in a rebuilding society.

     
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    Professor Lisa Parks awarded MacArthur Fellowship — the “Genius Grant”

    MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”

     
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    Dispatches from Planet 3

    Marcia Bartusiak illuminates overlooked breakthroughs and the people who made them.

     
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    Sasha Costanza-Chock on new “#MoreThanCode” report

    Study of 188 practitioners distills key recommendations about using technology to advance social justice and the public interest.

     
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    Contemplating the Eyes in the Sky

    Professor Lisa Parks examines the way satellites and other aerial technologies have changed society.

     
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    3 Questions: Lisa Parks on drones, warfare, and the media

    CMS/W Professor Lisa Parks discusses new essay collection analyzing the impact of drones.

     
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    A New Kind of Media Theory

    Professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.

     
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    Heather Hendershot on the Conservative Movement and Television

    Heather Hendershot’s books and more have covered topics from censorship of children’s programming to in-depth studies of conservative political broadcasts.

     
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    Diversifying Your Online World: Ethan Zuckerman’s New Book “Rewire”

    Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’

     
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    The Hidden History of Bengali Harlem

    Vivek Bald’s new book details the overlooked waves of South Asian immigrants to the United States.

     
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