SHASS News
MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026
The prestigious honor society honors four MIT faculty and 13 additional MIT alumni among more than 250 new members.
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From poetry to tariffs: 14 SHASS classes available through MIT OpenCourseWare
For 25 years, OCW has been offering free online course materials from across the MIT curriculum.
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T.L. Taylor named 2026-27 CASBS Fellow
MIT professor will use the fellowship in behavioral sciences to advance a book on theme parks as immersive systems, extending her research from digital worlds to physical ones.
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Why bother with plausible deniability?
Philosopher Sam Berstler explains why we have social norms that let people engage in open deception.
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Built to fly
MIT senior, master’s candidate, and airman Brian Robinson lives and works at the intersection of aviation, politics, and technology.
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In the media
Why the birthrate panic has a blind spot
Bloomberg
Mass immigration is not the silver bullet economists think it is
Financial Times
South Sea Bubble — the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
Financial Times
Meet the Boston doctor blending medicine and journalism amid Trump’s ‘public health blitzkrieg’
The Boston Globe
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Anthro-Engineering: Green Steel, Green Jobs
