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100 Days and a Restart Today we launched a new MIT Museum website, and started our 100 day countdown to the opening of the Museum in its new building at Kendall.

Jun 23

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That New Computer Smell Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?

Apr 24

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Anything but NFTs So I was tempted to make this week’s newsletter about NFTs.

Mar 25

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The Grief Multiplier and Gratitude Personal reflections on loss, grief, and finding gratitude during the COVID-19 pandemic after losing a brother.

Mar 18

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Happy New Year? If you say so. I regret my jokes at the end of last year about how “it couldn’t get any worse than 2020.” At the very least, to the extent that this country is relevant to the rest of the world anymore, we have a lot of explaining to do in 2021 and beyond.

Jan 7

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Patience There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects...

Dec 17

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The Show Must Go On(line) Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between “The Adams Administration” and “We Know,” I fell fast asleep. This was the original cast on Broadway, mind you, and I was sitting in some of the best seats in the house.

Dec 7

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Choose Your Own Adventure Exploring the branching narratives of CYOA books through data visualization and what they teach us about choice.

Nov 13

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Bricolage 002 This reminds me of why you should never poke a hardboiled egg after you put it in the microwave.

Nov 6

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Election Day 2020 Almost all jurisdictions rely on electronic voting machines at their polling stations. It is worth understanding why we use them, how they work, and to what degree we can trust them.

Nov 3

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Error 1202 Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending.

Oct 23

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(Not So) Quiet, Please In a fan-less season, the home teams’ noise advantage diminishes, and players’ performance is altered. Sporting venues have resorted to many tactics to restore some crowd normalcy to the game, including pumping in fake crowd noise.

Oct 16

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Bricolage 001 Consider these interstitial episodes a bit of a release valve for us, or perhaps a palette cleanser to let us catch our breaths between the longer essays.

Oct 9

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Eye to Eye Dressed in a long-sleeved, untucked white shirt, he climbs onto a platform in front of the audience.

Oct 2

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Press 1 to Continue I had a meeting with a colleague a few days ago, and she requested that instead of a video chat over Zoom, we should pick up the phone

Sep 25