Selected Publications
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The 2019 Karmel Writing Prizes Winners
Working in every genre, from fiction to technical writing, 36 MIT students win 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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Fission and Fury in Perry Ohio: One Town’s Fight to Save Their Nuclear Power Plant
Residents and town officials in Perry are not going quietly into the retrenchment of America’s nuclear energy industry.
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From the Sea to the Stars: The Forgotten Journeys of the Philippines’ Ancient Explorers
Modern Filipinos — who are even now making their first tentative steps into space — are heirs to a rich heritage of exploration, the story of which has yet to be fully told.
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The Promise and Perils of Personalized Learning: Keeping Students at the Center of the Ed Tech Revolution
The Kettle Moraine School District’s success in creating personalized learning experiences for their students is a case study for how other districts might approach homegrown disruptions of their own.
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Invisible Scars: How Domestic Violence Victims Have Been Left Out of the Discussion on Traumatic Brain Injuries
Although domestic violence researchers suggest that the population will develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is only diagnosed post-mortem, a lack of donated brains means the disease has yet to be found among domestic violence victims.
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Can This Burger Save the Planet?: Synthetic Beef and the Dream of an American Animal-free Diet
Opposing strategies reveal the promises and pitfalls of trying to reform the American diet and that above all else our food system is unsustainable.
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The Deepest Paradox: Seafloor Mining and Its Future
It is time to assess the paradoxical nature of seafloor mining: to mine the seafloor to support sustainable and efficient technological development on the land above.
