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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.