Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo says he has "expanded his thinking" and now supports the construction of resort casinos in the state.
Audio|Fri, 18 Sep 2009|More from WBZ's More on This
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“…But not everyone is going to receive a degree from Harvard or MIT. . My goal is to assist our Community Colleges as they seek improvement. One idea -- believe well worth pursuing. Is to partner …”
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Death star galaxy. It sounds like the name of a "Star Wars" movie, or maybe a rock band, but it is actually the nickname of a black hole being studied by researchers at MIT . A black hole is a region of space an...
Video|Thu, 17 Sep 2009|More from Boston.com
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“…actually the nickname of a black hole being studied by researchers at MIT. . Mikey astrophysicist Dan Evans joins us now from the Museum of Science in Boston more I can't hide let's see how he …”
CAMBRIDGE - When you see the pictures, you'd think they were taken by a NASA satellite. But these outerspace pictures came from three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, with $150, and a summer of free time. FOX25's Sara Underwood reports.
Video|Wed, 16 Sep 2009|More from for MyFox Boston
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“…they seem to one of NASA's -- something apple not able to MIT and with a digital camera. And about a hundred. …”
Alexander Pope’s couplet about Isaac Newton gives me goosebumps: Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said: Let Newton be! and all was light. Epitaph… Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Tom Levenson. (29 minutes, 14 mb mp3) Sir Isaac: an “angel of the Lord” for science If the [...]
Audio|Mon, 14 Sep 2009|More from Open Source
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“…global. Attitude let this one in the -- a walk around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . With the late great Isaac Newton. -- the seventeenth century English. And physics genius -- in the mirror -- years of his early twenty's. You know almost everything you and I know about planet and movement. -- in motion. And gravity and calculus. MIT of course being a -- Sort of extension of Newton's imagination. More neutrality and you could argue that he would. So who …”
“…Isaac Newton makes me want to. Bringing into this world even into MIT wrote he is the the architect of our thinking. I want you to walk -- around the neighborhood that is built on …”
On today's podcast — President Obama speaks about reforming finanical markets; regaining mental fitness after chemotherapy; a 95-year-old Pittsburgh bartender retires; Sgt. Jared Monti, to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously; high drama at the U.S. Open; and Witaru Misaka, the first Japanese American to play in the NBA.
Audio|Mon, 14 Sep 2009|More from PRI: Here & Now Podcast
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“…emerge. From research that was done a lot of that down at MIT. . And seventies and eighties was that -- can make a big difference that. What your brain sees on a daily basis in …”
The field of candidates for the Senate seat once held by the late Edward M. Kennedy is taking shape. Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown launched a campaign over the weekend for the Republican nomination. WBUR's Bob Oakes spoke with Scott Brown about health care reform, financial regulation, the war in Afghanistan and other issues.
Audio|Mon, 14 Sep 2009|More from WBUR: Daily News Update
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“…with flu like illnesses and that's out of more than 30000 students. MIT has confirmed just three cases of the flu. Bring this university in Waltham had twelve cases and Boston College had fourteen although …”
“…they're not testing anymore. Doctor David diamond he's the associate medical director MIT told me that many students are more anxious than usual just because they're afraid they have a slightly. …”
News Items: Live from DragonCon 2009, Google UFO, Mongolian Death Worm, Chupacabra in Texas, Magnetic Monopole; Live Q&A; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Audio|Fri, 11 Sep 2009|More from The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
|MITfound at1:03:37, 1:02:37
“…welcome back to that point. The second one was the team at MIT that finally figured out the three dimensional structure of cement. And they figured it was like Q herb block -- Finally figured that out could job MIT. . And then the last one engineers developed the first functioning electrical circuit. That runs entirely off the energy inside a tree I think I think only to an explanation as to exactly how that works I mean I'm sure that's reality. But first functioning electrical circuit that runs entirely off the nineteenth century I think that -- all right so it's either. Capture or the MIT team and and -- say. I'll say that capture won his fiction because it's they probably have the software that comes close. …”
“…captured distorted text as well as humans. -- to a team at MIT has finally figured out that three dimensional structure of cement. And -- a three. Engineers have developed the first functioning electrical circuit …”
Taking the frizzies out of hair care; developing a grass seeds that needs no water, no fertilizer and little mowing
Video|Thu, 10 Sep 2009|More from bos
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“…aired it out today's leading edge and then it can no brainer MIT. . He's done a lot of work. …”
Residents in Weymouth are being warned to keep their cats indoors after several cats in the South Shore community have been found mutilated.
Video|Thu, 10 Sep 2009|More from bos
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“…at her and it it to -- it makes me wonder what MIT -- line. Tonight at 530 -- Weymouth woman worries that her cat. May be one of those in the seriously kill and …”
“…to edit and competitor he did it in him. We wondered what. MIT -- line. …”
MacArthur Award-winning structural engineer John Ochsendorf talks about how his interests in environmental science, history, archeology, and engineering led him to his work with historic structures, and then to his work redesigning communities to make them carbon neutral. This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. John Ochsendorf i s a structural engineer and an historian at MIT , whose work won him a 2008 MacArthur "Genius" Award.
Audio|Thu, 10 Sep 2009|More from WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast Podcast
|MITfound at0:29, 1:43
“…Welcome everybody to today's. Lunch with the luminaries. Here and MIT museum my name's John -- activities in -- great pleasure to have you with us. And do come and join us those are just arriving. Make -- We're delighted to have with -- Someone who I think without causing him to -- polarizing -- MIT. . Professor -- box and -- He is that I suppose -- thing. Structural engineer and then historians. And for the work that he's already done at the intersection between. Engineering and history among other things. He's a recipient of a -- so called genius award. In 2008 so he's one of the number of officially designated geniuses. Here at MIT. . Pack so without further do because I've invested enough. I'm it and give it to jump to say a few words and …”
“…words about my background in the work that we're doing here at MIT and then we can open the floor have a very. Informal discussion. …”