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MIT Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements for Admissions

Doing away with standardized testing doesn't help low-income applicants gain entry to elite colleges.

Reason

Commentary: What colleges can learn from Georgetown Day School’s embrace of multiple viewpoints

Let’s start with the easy part. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was wrong to harangue Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing about books allegedly used to teach critical race theory at the Georgetown Day School, where Jackson serves on the board of trustees. It had nothing to…

Chicago Tribune

A ‘doomsday’ book that launched a movement

There is a consensus that most of the fundamental factors discussed in ‘The Limits to Growth’ have come true

The Hindu

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Tesla Giga Texas: White And Red Model Y Joins Blue And Black

As Tesla approaches the official launch of the Made-in-Texas (MIT) Tesla Model Y, new versions of the car are seen at the Tesla Giga Austin plant.

InsideEVs

Illinois launches economic development campaign to find the next Rivian and draw business beyond Chicago

Intersect Illinois, the state’s public-private economic development arm, has launched a new $1 million digital marketing campaign, “Be In Illinois,” aimed at luring companies to locate beyond the city limits of Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

This novel fabric can 'hear' your heartbeat

A new fiber made from a piezoelectric material and a conductor can register sound as mechanical waves and convert it into electrical waves, helping monitor bodies.

Inverse

McCarthy enlists MIT in prep for speakership

His alliance with the school is designed to add a future-focused dimension to the GOP agenda.

Axios

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Best Wordle starting words for a great first guess

The best Wordle starting words will get your game off to a great start. Here's how math can help you choose wisely.

TechRadar

Tesla Giga Texas: Model Y Stock Doubled To Over 400

The latest flyover videos over the Tesla Giga Austin plant, recorded on March 9, reveal more than 430 Made-in-Texas (MIT) Tesla Model Y.

InsideEVs

How to become a sustainability leader in 2022

Learn how to save the world one skill at a time with GetSmarter’s Sustainability courses in partnership with some of the world’s leading universities like MIT, Bocconi, Oxford and Cambridge

The Independent UK

MIT Names Ethereum PoS 'Top Technological Breakthrough' In 2022

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named Ethereum’s (CRYPTO: ETH) upcoming transition to a proof-of-stake blockchain to its list of top technological breakthroughs for 2022.

Benzinga

Raman Research Institute refutes 2018 claim of discovery of cosmic dawn signal

The excitement over 2018 claims of discovery of light from the universe’s first stars (cosmic dawn) seems to have hit a roadblock in Bengaluru. City-based Raman Research Institute on Monday claimed their experiments have refuted claims by Arizona State University (ASU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that they discovered…

The Hindu

Tesla Giga Texas: Model Y Stock Increased To Over 220

A new drone flyover video over the Tesla Giga Austin plant, recorded on February 27, reveals a growing number of new Made-in-Texas (MIT) Tesla Model Y.

InsideEVs

From the Archives (February 28, 1972): Current growth rate may lead to world-wide disaster

Washington, Feb. 27: A new international study warns that the human race faces disaster within the next 100 years, unless it collectively brakes current rate of growth. The study calls for urgent efforts to create a new, powerkeyed "world of non-growth" "that would ensure that human society can survive indefinitely…

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MIT severs ties with Russian school after Ukraine invasion

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is severing ties with a research university it helped establish in Russia, citing the country’s “unacceptable” invasion of Ukraine

The Conversation

Listening to everything: how sound reveals an unseen world

Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits.

Tribune News Service

Mario Draghi is putting pressure on his coalition partners after missing out on the Italian presidency

When Mario Draghi convened his Cabinet two days after his failed bid for president, he shook hands with each minister and congratulated them for Italy’s economic rebound last year. Then he gave them 48 hours to submit their plans for the next phase of economic rebuilding, according to people briefed…

The Independent UK

WTO leader Okonjo-Iweala chosen to address MIT grads

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, has been named the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s commencement

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Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say

Novel legal strategy argues that Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt are legally obliged to put the public interest first

Asharq Al-Awsat

Plant-Derived Composite Stronger than Bones Could be Used in Dental Implants

A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced it has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) mixed with a bit of synthetic polymer. The researchers found the cellulose-based composite is stronger and tougher than some types of bone. In a study published Feb.13 in the…

Evening Standard

Backpack labs, pioneering pouches and other Covid innovations from around the world

From solar-powered vaccine storage boxes to testing labs that fit into a backpack, the pandemic has unleashed powerful examples of human ingenuity. Esra Arahu rounds up some of the most creative efforts that aim to mitigate the impact of Covid-19.

Reason

Speech-Based Expulsion from Private Club Doesn't Violate Massachusetts Civil Rights Act

From yesterday's Report and Recommendation by Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell (D. Mass.) in Koppel v. Moses: [According to the Complaint,] Koppel and Moses at one point were friends and fellow MIT graduate students. Both belonged to a student-run computer science club called the Student Information Processing Board ("SIPB"), which Moses…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey Arrests 14-Member Network Plotting to Kidnap Iranian Opposition Figures

Turkey’s intelligence and security authorities have exposed a network of 14 members cooperating with Iranian intelligence to abduct Iranian opposition members on Turkish soil. On Friday, Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) uncovered another plot directed by Iran to assassinate an Israeli-Turkish businessperson using a network of alleged hitmen.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey Spies Thwart Iran-Plotted Murder of Israeli Businessman

Turkish spies thwarted a plot orchestrated by Iran to kill an Israeli-Turkish businessman based in Istanbul, a pro-government daily reported Friday. Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) discovered a network of nine operatives dubbed an "Iran assassination team" plotting to kill Yair Geller, the Sabah daily reported. Geller has businesses in…

The Independent UK

Smithsonian to show 120 orange statues of female scientists

The Smithsonian will commemorate Women’s History Month in March by displaying 120 3D-printed statues depicting women who have excelled in the fields of science and technology

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