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  • MIT student creates device that is able to search the entire internet using just his mind (Is this actually a true story? He asks sceptically…)

    02/27/2024 12:14:46 AM PST · by cba123 · 19 replies
    Unilad ^ | 25 February 2024 GMT | Lucy Devine
    A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student has created a device that allows humans to communicate with machines using our minds - and it truly is incredible. Arnav Kapur created a device called AlterEgo, which is a wearable type of headset that allows users to communicate with technology without even speaking a word. So how does it work?
  • MIT Scientist Ran Doom on E. Coli Cells in an Experiment That Sounds Like Sci-Fi

    02/12/2024 6:32:44 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    BGR ^ | Feb 5th, 2024 | Joshua Hawkins
    MIT scientist ran Doom on E. coli cells in an experiment that sounds like sci-fiIf you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s crazy to think of how far video games have come since the original Doom release in 1993. But, as iconic of a game as it is, what has even become more iconic than the game itself is getting it to run on tons of different things. In fact, we’ve seen Doom play on a myriad of things. And now, some scientists have even managed to run...
  • Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

    01/14/2024 6:08:09 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 29 replies
    MIT News ^ | September 27, 2023 | Jennifer Chu
    The team's new system improves on their previous design — a similar concept of multiple layers, called stages. Each stage contained an evaporator and a condenser that used heat from the sun to passively separate salt from incoming water. That design, which the team tested on the roof of an MIT building, efficiently converted the sun's energy to evaporate water, which was then condensed into drinkable water. But the salt that was left over quickly accumulated as crystals that clogged the system after a few days. In a real-world setting, a user would have to place stages on a frequent...
  • Alumni to sue MIT for sex discrimination in admissions

    01/11/2024 10:26:20 AM PST · by CFW · 10 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 1/10/24 | Breccan F. Thies
    Alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are preparing to sue the school for allegedly rejecting male applicants in favor of “artificially” increasing the percentage of female students. The group FairAdmissions@MIT, a nonprofit organization formed by the alumni, is seeking male plaintiffs who, despite having top-tier applications, nonetheless were rejected from the prestigious school. “The first phase of our program is identifying male college students or recent graduates who had top SAT/ACT scores, great GPAs, strong recommendations, and substantial extra-curricular activities yet got rejected by MIT,” Mark J. Perry, the group’s president, said in a press release on Wednesday. “Our...
  • Bill Ackman’s war to make universities accountable has the left panicked

    01/08/2024 10:50:24 PM PST · by george76 · 23 replies
    New York Post ^ | Jan. 8, 2024, | Glenn H. Reynolds
    For a long time, people (including me) have been calling for major changes in higher education. Now someone is doing something about it. Hedge-fund tycoon Bill Ackman is waging war to make universities accountable. Ackman started his campaign by demanding the resignations of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth after the trio’s shambolic performance before Congress on antisemitic harassment on their campuses. Magill and Gay are now gone, and Kornbluth is worried. Penn’s board of trustees pushed Magill out pretty quickly. Gay, being a diversity hire, was harder...
  • Bill Ackman @ BillAckman

    01/08/2024 4:29:23 PM PST · by chickenlips · 30 replies
    X ^ | Jan 6, 2023 | Bill Ackman
    Last night, no one at @MIT had a good night’s sleep. Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp could be heard around the campus. Why? Well, every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI, they will be outed. No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and/or the failure to properly credit the work...
  • 3 college heads testified before the House last month. One still has her job

    01/05/2024 9:41:45 AM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/03/2024 | Lexi Lonas
    Less than a month after the leaders of three top U.S. colleges testified before the House about antisemitism on their campuses, two of them have been forced to resign...MIT President Sally Kornbluth, meanwhile, has stayed in her position, based on little more than the school’s immediate response followed by radio silence.
  • Pfizer CEO slams Harvard, MIT, and Penn leaders for their ‘despicable’ testimony about antisemitism and genocide

    12/25/2023 10:21:58 AM PST · by Angelino97 · 34 replies
    Fortune ^ | December 6, 2023 | Simone Foxman
    Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla slammed testimonies by the heads of three top American universities for failing to “condemn racist, antisemitic, hate rhetoric” while speaking in front of members of congress Tuesday. Testimony by the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “was one of the most despicable moments in the history of U.S. academia,” Bourla said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter... Bourla, who in 2020 struck an agreement with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use Israel as a test case for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, said his grandparents,...
  • With UPenn's president out, Bill Ackman is now lasering in on Harvard and MIT's presidents

    12/11/2023 5:53:57 AM PST · by nuconvert · 30 replies
    MSN ^ | 12-10-23
    One down, two to go. Bill Ackman appears to have a scorecard tracking which college presidents lose their jobs for their congressional statements on on-campus antisemitism, and now he's training his full fire on the two university leaders who remain. (excerpt) And Ackman's quest seems to be picking up after Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned from her position on Saturday. On Sunday, Ackman penned an open letter to Harvard's governing boards of directors, where he reiterated his call for Claudine Gay to be removed. "In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage...
  • Universities Demonstrate Moral Confusion [semi-satire]

    12/10/2023 7:21:48 AM PST · by John Semmens · 6 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 10 December 2023 | John Semmens
    At a hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grilled the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania about students at their schools publicly calling for Jews to be killed. "Is this appropriate behavior?" she asked. Penn President Liz Magill said "it depends on the context. First of all, there is the issue of freedom of speech. Under the US Constitution people are free to express their opinions. Second, there is the issue of freedom of religion. The Palestinian Authority tells its own people that killing Jews is for Allah. The repetition of...
  • My question for #ClaudineGay, #LizMagill, and #SallyKornbluth: Under what "context" would it be OK for someone to call for the genocide of my Jewish relatives, friends, and neighbors?

    12/09/2023 6:55:14 PM PST · by grundle · 13 replies
    Twitter ^ | December 29, 2023 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill@DanielAlmanPGH
    https://twitter.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1733680074224746942Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill@DanielAlmanPGH My question for #ClaudineGay, #LizMagill, and #SallyKornbluth: Under what "context" would it be OK for someone to call for the genocide of my Jewish relatives, friends, and neighbors? #SquirrelHill #Antisemitism #Jews #Genocide #Harvard #UPenn #MIT #Nazis #Hitler #Holocaust 9:48 PM · Dec 9, 2023
  • Rep. Foxx announces formal investigation into Harvard, UPenn, MIT– promises more to come for other universities

    12/09/2023 7:55:04 AM PST · by george76 · 47 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | December 8, 2023
    Foxx warned that other universities should expect to be faced with similar investigations... Rep. Dr. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, has announced a formal investigation into Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT. This comes after the presidents of all three universities refused to affirm that “calling for the genocide of Jews” is necessarily against the rules at their respective universities. Each of the three university presidents refused to answer “yes,” after being asked multiple times whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates their own university policies. All three presidents repeatedly...
  • The Weimar Republic

    12/07/2023 8:35:50 AM PST · by george76 · 4 replies
    Points And Figures ^ | DEC 6, 2023 | Jeffrey Carter
    True Leadership Stops It.. People talk about the Weimar Republic that gave rise to Adolph Hitler but very few understand what the Weimar was all about. ... from deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.. The Germany of the late 1920s and early 1930s was a world leader in most fields of art, science and intellect. ... Berlin had three opera houses, and Germany as a whole no less than eighty. Every middle-sized city had its own orchestra ... And in science, of course, the Germans were preeminent…. The Germany of 1920 had a significantly higher per capita educational level than...
  • MIT Climate Scientist Says It's 'Unreasonable' To Call Climate Change An Existential Threat

    12/06/2023 5:56:33 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 12/06/23 | Ella Kietlinska and Jan Jekielek
    An MIT scientist has said that although the global temperature rise owing to a greenhouse effect is real, the increase is small and does not pose any existential threat.The greenhouse effect is primarily caused by water vapor and clouds, said Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide are minor constituents of the greenhouse effect, Mr. Lindzen told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” in an interview.“If all other things are kept constant, and you double CO2, you would get a little under one degree of warming,” Mr. Lindzen said. Some...
  • 'Not All Calls For Genocide Are Bad,' Say Ivy League Presidents Sporting Cool New Mustaches

    12/06/2023 11:02:22 AM PST · by DFG · 12 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 12/06/2023 | Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In testimony before the United States Congress, Ivy League presidents showed off nice new mustaches while explaining to House members that not all calls for mass murder are wrong. "Some chanting for fellow students to die is okay - it's all about context," explained Penn president Liz McGill, adjusting her Swastika armband. "You have to consider the context of the three of us goose-stepping into Congress chanting 'Final Solution'." According to sources, the three presidents arrived at Congress each driving Panzer tanks and surrounded by "SS" bodyguards. After warmly saluting each other, the three women carefully affixed...
  • Ivy League Presidents Say Calling for Genocide of Jews is Permissible Within Context

    12/06/2023 8:23:43 AM PST · by Red Badger · 62 replies
    Todd Starnes.com ^ | December 6, 2023 | Todd Starnes
    The presidents of three prominent universities dropped an antisemetic bombshell Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania whether calls for the genocide of jews would violate their codes of conduct. The answer stunned the nation. “It is a context-dependent decision,” Penn President Liz Magill replied. Stefanik was dumbfounded. “Calling for the genocide of Jews is dependent on the context? That is not bullying or harassment? This is the easiest question to answer ‘yes,’ Ms. Magill,” the congresswoman said. Harvard President Claudine Gay said, “When speech crosses into conduct,...
  • Wary of Deportation, Elite Colleges Won't Expel Anti-Semitic Foreign Students

    11/27/2023 1:51:06 PM PST · by george76 · 19 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 27, 2023 | Joseph Simonson
    As anti-Israel protesters swarmed college campuses, MIT president Sally Kornbluth drew a line in the sand: Any student engaged in an unsanctioned protest would face expulsion. On Nov. 9, students decided to try their luck and hold a "die-in" at a campus location that explicitly bars protests. Kornbluth said the demonstration got so heated that she feared it "could lead to violence," but she did not enforce her prohibition. Students involved in the protest simply received a "non-academic suspension," a slap on the wrist that allows them to continue attending class. Kornbluth's about-face was an attempt to protect foreign students,...
  • MIT faces backlash for not expelling anti-Israel protesters over 'visa issues': 'Who is in charge?'

    11/13/2023 6:54:15 PM PST · by grundle · 17 replies
    Fox News via Yahoo ^ | November 13, 2023 | Thomas Catenacci
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was blasted this week after its administrators acknowledged the university stopped short of expelling anti-Israel student protesters because of "visa issues." MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement Nov. 9 that the school would merely suspend students who participated in the disruptive protest from non-academic campus activities to avoid "collateral consequences for the students, such as visa issues." One day earlier, the Coalition Against Apartheid, a pro-Palestinian student group, conducted a large protest that Kornbluth confirmed defied MIT policies governing student actions. "In late morning, the face-to-face confrontation between the protesters and counterprotesters...
  • MIT has just said that it will not give academic suspensions to students who physically prevented Jewish students from entering the campus. As far as I'm concerned, MIT is now run by Nazis.

    11/13/2023 10:26:46 AM PST · by grundle · 42 replies
    Twitter ^ | November 13, 2023 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
    MIT has just said that it will not give academic suspensions to students who physically prevented Jewish students from entering the campus. As far as I'm concerned, MIT is now run by Nazis.
  • MIT Didn't Suspend Pro-Hamas Protestors Violating Rules Because They Could Be Deported

    11/12/2023 7:18:37 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Hotair ^ | 11/12/2023 | David Strom
    Pro-Hamas protestors on the campus of MIT were warned that if they didn’t disperse–they were violating campus policies that prohibited interfering with academic activities and the free movement of students and staff–they would be suspended. The protestors were warned several times and failed to disperse. Jewish students were prevented from entering the campus through the main entrance and were rerouted. The administration promised to suspend students who continued to violate their policies because “a line had been crossed.” Tonight, the administration backed down from their promise. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences pic.twitter.com/AoCopuRv5d—...