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Federal Aviation Administration Proposes $175,000 Civil Penalty Against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a $175,000 civil penalty against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for alleged violations of Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations. How People Arrived Here: Ameriflight...
MIT’s Technology Review Names SpaceX One of 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (known as SpaceX) has been named one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by MIT’s Technology Review.
Survey Reveals Potential Innovation Gap in the US
The 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index just announced indicates that American women ages 16-25 possess many characteristics necessary to become inventors, yet they still do not see themselves as inventive. Science Brief thanks to EurekAlert. Read more...
Levitated Dipole Magnet May Yield New Approach to Clean Energy
A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producing...
Identity on Planet Google
Yesterday I finally got around to watching Ken Auletta’s talk about his Googled book, which I had saved on my VTR from its Book TV broadcast. I had read several reviews of the book, and I have been familiar with Auletta’s style of both...
Genome Sequence for the Domestic Horse to Be Unveiled
The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing center of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that includes scientists at the University of California,...
Rage Against the Consciousness Industry
Last night Rina Chandran filed a story for Reuters from their Mumbai desk that really gets you thinking about where we have arrived and just how the hell we got here. Here are her lead paragraphs: When Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest...
Conversing with the Dead
It is very seldom that a truly personal blog post resonates with me. I figure that the blogger is writing it for the same reason that I write such things: Writing is a way of trying to bring some order to unkempt thoughts, usually on the premise...
