Corporate climate plans, from the likes of Amazon and others, rely heavily on investing in carbon offset projects like tree planting and forest preservation, or other efforts that purport to help the climate. But studies and investigations have repeatedly found that the benefits of these efforts can be wildly inflated. A growing number of carbon […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
The possibilites technology can bring are awesome and scary
Victoria MacLennan. 24 August 2022, 10:13 pm Technology has the potential to solve complex, wide reaching challenges we (locally and globally) face today and in the future. There are thousands of articles out there telling us that blockchain and AI are awesome and will revolutionise the world, what I am interested in is how. Here […]
The metaverse isn’t here yet, but it already has a long history
Tom Boellstorff, Contributor. 24 August 2022, 10:07 pm Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually learned “Clem” was a man with a solitary office job like hers. For Nattie “lived, as it were, in two worlds” – the world of office […]
A pioneer of reproductive rights
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Embryos could count as people too in our post-Roe world
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We must fundamentally rethink “net-zero” climate plans. Here are six ways.
Fund research and development There are all sorts of areas where the world has yet to figure out how to effectively, affordably, and rapidly slash emissions, including aviation, maritime shipping, fertilizer, cattle farming, steel, and cement. So companies looking to accelerate their path to zero emissions and maximize their impact on climate change should also […]
Race-detecting AI
That is concerning, the researchers say, because doctors use algorithms for help with decisions such as whether patients are candidates for chemotherapy or an intensive care unit. Now these findings raise the possibility that the algorithms are “looking at your race, ethnicity, sex, whether you’re incarcerated or not—even if all of that information is hidden,” […]
Robo-fireflies
To make them glow, electrical engineering and computer science professor Kevin Chen and his team embedded zinc sulfate particles into the elastomer and used a very thin layer of nanotubes to avoid blocking the light. Because the particles light up only in the presence of a strong, high-frequency electric field, they use a high voltage […]
Sponge art
In April, design major Karyn Nakamura ’23 transformed Simmons Hall into an interactive art project. Her piece, titled “116 x 31” after the number of squares in Simmons’s façade, converted audio into dynamically projected color patterns evocative of vintage video games. Source: MIT Technology Review
Tech Reunions returns to MIT’s campus for a historic celebration
After a full day of events, Saturday was capped off with games and a live band at Toast to Tech—where alumni danced and talked late into the night. The excitement on campus was palpable—alumni rejoiced at reconnecting in person over the weekend as they enjoyed touring the campus, learning from MIT faculty and fellow alums […]