MIT News: January/February 2009
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What We Don't Know in Physics MIT
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Physicists seek the origins of mass, the nature of dark matter, and beautiful equations to describe the universe.
By Katherine Bourzac, SM '04
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Meet the Author
- Social Science
- In Honest Signals, Alex (Sandy) Pentland explores the power of nonverbal communication.
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Features
- Why Women Leave Science
- Fixing the leaky pipeline has become a matter of national competitiveness.
By Sue V. Rosser and Mark Zachary Taylor, PhD '06
- The Peripatetic Professor
- Joseph Stiglitz, PhD '67, brings mathematical precision--and a lot of frequent-flier miles--to
the task of eliminating poverty.
By Anne Murphy
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- Déjà View
- MIT's 1979 interactive map of Aspen, CO, anticipated one of Google's hottest tools
By Erica Naone, SM '07
My View
- Hackophilia 2.0
- Why I cohost a TV show that brings the joy of engineering to the masses
Zoz Brooks, PhD '07
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology