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An Unexpected Director: The Media Lab's wild child grows up ... sort of.

Proteins Linked to Nerve Fiber Development: Could lead to new therapies.

Running Hot and Cold: Nanotech makes thermoelectric materials viable.

MIT for High-School Students: Extending OpenCourseWare's reach.

Riding for Fusion: MIT Cycling provides energy for the largest human-powered computation ever.

Hootenanny: Tracking owls with cell phones.

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Public Offering: Business in the age of Wikipedia.

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Personal Space, Redefined: A student designs the Monumental Helium Inflatable Wearable Floating Body Mass for Give Me Shelter.

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Understanding Metastasis: Pioneering biologist Robert Weinberg, the first to discover a gene that causes cancer, is now studying how the disease spreads.

The Fearless Inventor: Saul Griffith likes taking risks--and attacks problems wherever they arise, without fear of failure.

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Economics at MIT: The influence of a legendary department.

Online Reunion Books Debut for Tech Reunions 2008

Freakonomics Pushes Boundaries of Economics

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