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Children Attending Preschool More Likely To Attend College, Reveals Study

As per an empirical study headed by an MIT economist, children who start preschool at the age of four are considerably more likely to attend college. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Study: Children attending preschool more likely to go to college

Children who start preschool at the age of four are considerably more likely to attend college, according to an empirical study headed by an MIT economist. Read full details on Dynamite News:

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US experts warn AI likely to kill off jobs – and widen wealth inequality

Economists wary of firm predictions but say advances could create new raft of billionaires while other workers are laid off

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Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Offers Insight On Battery Recycling

In a recent interview for MIT Technology Review, JB offers some new insights into the massive challenge of building a circular economy, and why we can’t wait.

InsideEVs

Researchers Find Why Immunotherapy Doesn't Work Well For Lung Cancer Treatment

Some cancers respond well to immunotherapy, a medication therapy that prompts the immune system to target tumours, although results against lung cancer have been conflicting. Read full story on Dynamite News:

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Coronavirus vaccine: MIT Professor calls for immediate suspension of COVID mRNA vaccine

The number of health professionals urging for the suspension of COVID mRNA vaccine is increasing. The call for withdrawing the vaccine is getting stronger.

The Times of India

MIT's Free Speech Problem

Daryl Morey raises concerns about the lack of free expression at his alma mater.

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A 2,000-year-old Roman engineering secret could make today’s buildings greener

In a new study, researchers found a key ingredient in durable Roman concrete that could make today's buildings last longer.

Inverse

MIT Faculty Senate Statement on Free Speech

College Fix (Jennifer Kabbany) reports that the statement was approved by the Faculty Senate by a 98-52 vote: Free Expression Statement adopted by the MIT faculty 12/21/22 The influential 1949 Lewis Report observed that MIT's mission was "to encourage initiative, to promote the spirit of free and objective inquiry, to…

Reason

Killer still walking streets after dad shot dead and doused in acid

Liam Smith was found dead on the pavement just yards away from his home

Liverpool Echo

It's time to quit capitalism's obsession with growth. Focus on 'degrowth' instead, argues a growing movement in economics

“It seems that humanity is thriving and committing suicide at the same time,” noted author Ugo Bardi.

Fortune

An MIT professor and his one-time student founded a startup that may revolutionize $60bn pesticide market

Kripa Varanasi and his one-time Ph.D. advisee found ways to get droplets to stick to plants.

Fortune

Researchers asked workers what they wanted most from employers during the pandemic, and it wasn’t remote work

Transparency, clear communication, and general support are most important to workers.

Fortune

Sam Bankman-Fried: the crypto pioneer behind one of the largest financial frauds in history

The 30-year-old is facing decades in jail after being found guilty of fraud. So how did the FTX founder end up here? Amy Francombe reports

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Who is Sam Bankman-Fried and why was the FTX founder arrested in the Bahamas?

The former ’King of Crypto’ is currently behind bars

WEKU

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.

Al Jazeera

Maria Telkes: Why Google honours her today

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

The Independent UK

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

Visionary Hungarian-American scientist foresaw the potential of renewable power

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Tribune News Service

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Bangkok Post

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…

Businessweek

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.

The Conversation

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 Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Evening Standard

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

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