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      • Picturing The Faerie Queene | Ivy Li '20
      • Music technology accelerates at MIT
      • 17.01: Looking at justice through the lens of poltical theory
      • MIT ranked No.1 worldwide for Economics and Business
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      • Election Insights 2018 - Research-based perspectives from MIT
      • The moral calculus of climate change (24.07)
      • Hacking virtual reality | Hands-on humanities (CMS.339)
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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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