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Jazz in the key of life
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón, a Grammy-winning MIT faculty member, creates a distinctive blend of jazz and traditional Puerto Rican music.
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A philosophy of work
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.
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Seth Mnookin and Heather Paxson named faculty co-leads of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences professors will help shape the next chapter of MITHIC, a presidential initiative launched in 2024.
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Why does wealth inequality matter?
An MIT Stone Center event examined the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of high inequality.
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A Renaissance woman for the modern age
In “Hagiography in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron,” lecturer Leanna Bridge Rezvani paints a fascinating portrait of an iconoclastic writer, advocate, scholar, and reformer.
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In the media
Massachusetts needs to save for a rainy day
The Boston Globe
Renowned psychologist Sherry Turkle has been studying tech’s effect on the human psyche for decades. With AI, she says, we’ve entered ‘a state of emergency.’
The Boston Globe
They kept outsiders away for 500 years. Their world is about to change.
The New York Times
Alexa, I need some space
The New York Times
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