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When French director Michel Gondry arrived at MIT to screen his latest film, “Be Kind Rewind,” the very first thing he wanted to do was meet a girl named Star Simpson. Simpson was arrested on Sept. 21, 2007 at the airport for wearing a circuit board with LED lights, which airport employees mistook for a bomb. To law enforcement, “she seemed out of her mind,” Gondry said in an interview at MIT on Feb. 4, “and I can really relate to her craziness...
...team of researchers at Lewis and Clark College discovered how gecko feet “stick” to a surface, according to MSNBC. Karp and his colleague, MIT Professor Robert S. Langer, have turned this microscopic structure into a possible medical tool...
Possibly, but given that archaeologists depend on the goodwill of source nations to conduct their digs, it's not very likely they would cooperate. However, Michael Kremer, a Harvard economics professor, and Tom Wilkening, a grad student at MIT, have another idea. They published a paper last year suggesting that source countries might, in effect, "lease" their treasures to the museums of richer nations on a temporary basis while retaining title to them. The cash produced by such a scheme could be used to beef up site security...
...Perhaps the cleanest fusion of technology and artistic intent at the Phaeno - apart from the Zaha Hadid?designed building itself, which is a triumph of experimental construction techniques and design aesthetics - is to be found in the 18 pieces brought by Arthur Ganson from his workshop at MIT in Boston. Ganson creates machines that are exquisitely engineered from low-tech materials to "express a feeling or a thought or a question." A wishbone hauling its own dream machine across the floor may not have a clear meaning, but that takes second place, he says, to "communicating the intensity and patience...
...ability to maintain fluid lines of communication between departments at SEAS, allowing those with a “more eclectic view of life” to enjoy intellectual diversity within SEAS and the University as a whole. “We will not be big like MIT,” Venky said. “That’s actually going to be a defining strength—a broader education. But it’s not easy, those barriers continuously have to be broken.”A native of India who earned a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell...