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Data from Greater Boston shows that relaxed density restrictions (upzoning) increase housing supply and reduce per-housing-unit rents and prices.

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?

Improving cartilage repair through cell therapy: « SMART breakthrough offers a promising pathway toward improved manufacturing of high‑quality cells for regenerative therapies to treat joint diseases

Implantable islet cells could control diabetes without insulin injections: « The cells can survive in the body for at least three months, producing enough insulin to control blood sugar levels…

MIT 15.393 – Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures (2026)

Why solid-state batteries keep short-circuiting

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996)

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests

A new study suggests aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere

Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]

A Scheme Shell (1994)

SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf]

MIT Living Wage Calculator

'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023)

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026

Pills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence

We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids (1997)

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space: « MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex

Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024

Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022)

MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf]

Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

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