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      • Blending anthropology and biology for public health
      • Dwaipayan Banerjee receives 2019 Levitan Prize
      • 76 MIT seniors inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society
      • 3Q: David Mindell on human-centered robotics and bilingual education
      • At MIT, anthropologists plan a model for Open Access publishing.
      • In STS.047 (Quantifying People), students dive deep into data history
      • MIT Digital Humanities launched with 1.3M Mellon grant
      • Digital History Series | Three Presentations
      • 3Q | David Pesetsky on the field of linguistics
      • Ethics, Computing, and AI | Perspectives from MIT
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      • Video Collection: Hello World, Hello MIT Event, Feb 2019
      • Coda - Computing for the People
      • Music technology accelerates at MIT
      • MIT ranked No.1 worldwide for Economics and Business
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      • Election Insights 2018 - Research-based perspectives from MIT
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How the Hippies Saved Physics 
 


 

David's Kaiser's new book explore how a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s and helped open up the frontier of quantum information.

 

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