Kendall Square Controversy, Smart Toothpaste, Rats That Upstage Mice: MIT in the News
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Despite the fact that many of us at Slice were out of the office for parts of last week (holiday obligations, travel, snow emergencies, weekends, etc), the news about MIT didn't stop. Here are a few MIT-related items that surfaced in the final days of 2010.
Group IQ Boston.com | December 19, 2010 "A striking study led by an MIT Sloan School of Management professor shows that teams of people display a collective intelligence that has surprisingly little to do with the intelligence of the team’s individual members." [Read More]
Nobel Laureate Diamond Fails to Win Senate Approval for Fed Seat Businessweek | December 22, 2010 "Nobel laureate economist Peter Diamond failed to gain U.S. Senate approval for a Federal Reserve Board seat, signifying that earning his profession’s highest honor wasn’t enough to overcome congressional politics." [Read More]
Cambridge City Council questions timing of MIT meeting Cambridge Chronicle - Wicked Local | December 22, 2010 "Some Cambridge city councilors have objected to the timing of a Planning Board presentation on proposed changes to Kendall Square. On Tuesday, MIT officials presented to the Planning Board their proposals to change parts of Kendall Square." [Read More]
Is it raining out? Ask your toothpaste cnet news | December 22, 2010 "What if your toothpaste could tell you whether you needed to leave the house carrying an umbrella? Or how hot the day was going to be? Odd as it may sound, David Carr of MIT's Media Lab is working on just such a prototype product, 'Tastes Like Rain.'" [Read More]
The evolutionary burst that made Earth oxygen-rich New Scientist - News | December 23, 2010 "Lawrence David and Eric Alm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped the evolutionary history of 3983 gene families that occur in a wide range of modern species. They were able to show that 27 per cent of these gene families appeared in a short evolutionary burst which began about 3.3 billion years ago." [Read More]
US returns items taken from MIT researcher, ACLU says The Boston Globe | December 26, 2010 [Read More]
In the laboratory, rats are upstaging mice The Boston Globe | December 27, 2010 [Read More]
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