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In less than a decade, MIT economist Namrata Kala has produced a corpus of work too rich, inventive, and diverse to be easily summarized. Let’s try anyway. Kala, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, often studies environmental problems and their effects on workers and firms, with implications for government policy, corporate […]

For every kilogram of matter that we can see — from the computer on your desk to distant stars and galaxies — there are 5 kilograms of invisible matter that suffuse our surroundings. This “dark matter” is a mysterious entity that evades all forms of direct observation yet makes its presence felt through its invisible […]

A group of scholars and students from MIT, the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and students from the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague investigated how a digital platform might support historians in researching the complexities of a historical era.