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Two fledgling entrepreneurs win MIT prizes for their global health apps

The winners confronted stigma and health equity in some countries with their tech ideas to help LGBTQI+ youth reach out for help and let women access private OB-GYN care.

WEKU

Maria Telkes: Why Google honours her today

Telkes was an innovative scientist recognised for her contributions to solar energy technologies.

Al Jazeera

Maria Telkes: Who was the ‘Sun Queen’ biophysicist who championed solar energy?

Visionary Hungarian-American scientist foresaw the potential of renewable power

The Independent UK

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Airlines are finally admitting contrails are an environmental problem

Contrails — those lines of wispy white clouds that follow some jets — may not be so harmless.

Tribune News Service

Kanye West enlists Alex Jones to release his first new song amid latest controversies

Amid ongoing backlash for his antisemitic behavior, Kanye West just released his first new song since his empire began to crumble in recent months.

Los Angeles Times

How remote work withers our social networks

Since the start of the Covid pandemic more than 2.5 years ago, there have been endless debates about working remotely. At first Zoom and Teams software inspired optimistic futurists to announce that the office was now irrelevant. Then, a militant return-to-the-office demand rose to defy them. The most recent prominent…

Bangkok Post

11 Hours With Sam Bankman-Fried: Inside the Bahamian Penthouse After FTX’s Fall

Billions of dollars of customer money is missing, investigators are circling, and the 30-year-old ex-CEO admits his company broke its own rules.

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Astronomers witness the dying flare of a star torn apart by a black hole halfway across the Universe

Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or so, one of those stars will wander too close to the supermassive black hole lurking at the galaxy’s centre and be torn apart. These cosmic behemoths weigh in at millions…

The Conversation

Will Bunch: Billionaires like Musk, Bankman-Fried didn't save the world. They wrecked it. Let's take it back

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Limitless: Five wild things Chris Hemsworth did in an attempt to live longer — from death doulas to extreme fasting

The Thor actor embarked on a quest for longer life in his new documentary — these are the extreme lengths he went to

Evening Standard

Is Earth a self-regulating organism?

Earth can correct its climate over eons, scientists say; sadly, it doesn't work fast enough to stop climate change

Salon

How Cell Phone Data Could Be Used To Assess Structural Integrity Of Bridges

Phones can capture the same kind of information about bridge vibrations picked up by stationary sensors.

Zenger

A Goldilocks climate at home could protect you from COVID this winter

Researchers at MIT suggest that indoor relative humidity may have an affect on the transmission of COVID-19.

Fortune

Beyond the ISS: A new wave of stations could redefine science in space

While scientists have long conducted research in space, a new generation of above-Earth labs could be run remotely and even help humans venture to Mars.

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Reason

Concern about Discrimination against "Asian Americans" in University Admissions–in 1987!

Do Colleges Set Asian Quotas? Newsweek, February 9, 1987. With a mix of awe and animosity, students in the Boston area joke that MIT stands for Made in Taiwan. Like many of the nation's most competitive schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experienced huge increases in Asian-American enrollments. Across…

Inverse

'Overwatch 2' MIT stat: What is Damage Mitigated and why does it matter?

'Overwatch 2' is beset with problems before it even launches. The latest beta update brings some good news in the form of the MIT, or Damage Mitigated, stat.

Tom’s Guide

Marvel's 'Ironheart' series on Disney Plus — everything we know so far

Marvel's “Ironheart” series for Disney Plus looks to follow a character first introduced in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. Here's what we know.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Do naked ballots mean trouble for John Fetterman? Here’s what you need to know

PHILADELPHIA — Naked ballots didn’t cost Joe Biden the 2020 election. That doesn’t mean Democrats are in the clear this year.

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Bangkok Post

China's economy rotting from the head

China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth?

Reason

Court Adopts Narrow Approach to Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Cases

A federal judge suggested that plaintiffs can sue as John Does only to the extent that identifying them would also identify nonparties who want to remain anonymous (such as the students who accused the plaintiffs of sexual misconduct).

Los Angeles Times

Kanye West assails Jews, abortion in new interview with Lex Fridman

In a sprawling new podcast interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Kanye West made yet another series of incendiary and false statements about the Holocaust, abortion and the Jewish people.

The Independent UK

Cell biologist from Duke named new president of MIT

A cell biologist who has spent the past eight years as provost at Duke University has been named president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 15 October 2022

On Monday the Sveriges Riksbank prize (the Nobel Prize for Economics) was awarded to Ben Bernanke. We can trace the last century of American economics in his life's work. He's often described as the saviour of the last recession. But what about this one?

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The artificial intelligence field is infected with hype. Here's how not to get duped

The star of the show at Tesla's annual "AI Day" (for "artificial intelligence") on Sept. 30 was a humanoid robot introduced by Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk as "Optimus."

Tribune News Service

Delta works with MIT to study impact of airplane contrails on climate

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines said Thursday it will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a study examining the environmental impact of airplane contrails.

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