“The IAP sessions seemed like a great opportunity to give back to the MIT community. which has welcomed us here so openheartedly, and I was glad to see so many people sign up and attend.”
This Year’s Fellows: Jane Qiu
She didn’t start out as a journalist. She has a doctorate in cancer genetics. So how did she come to write about grasslands in Tibet? It had to do with a newspaper and a former inmate.
Calestous Juma: An Appreciation
The death this week of Calestous Juma, a professor of the practice of international development at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was marked by testaments to his boundless generosity. That extended to journalists like me.
A Lively Discussion, Even for KSJ: Edmond Awad on His ‘Moral Machine’
The MIT Media Lab scholar describes a video game in which driverless cars develop a conscience. Knight Science fellows aren’t so sure about the rules.
Encounters With the Unimaginably Powerful
Monitoring the Chandra satellite, which watches for the birth and death of stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. Launched in 1999, it has lasted far beyond its planned lifetime of five years.
Grasslands and Oysters: 2017-18 Class News
What makes a great science story? Jane Qiu’s award-winning saga of Tibetan livestock herders gets a thorough annotation in The Open Notebook. And Rowan Jacobsen talks about a crop that “smells like a sea breeze skipping over the shore.”