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Red Earth, Pouring Rain

Blessed are those who have a friend to discuss beautiful verses with. Movie-makers, lyricists make it easy for poetry-lovers when they chose to incorporate words from ancient poems into nicely picturized modern hits. In a double dose of luck, a novelist (Vikram Chandra) chose imagery...

3D printed pills

Recently, the Food and Drug Administration approved the manufacture of the world’s first 3D printed pill Spritam, a reformulation of the anti-epileptic seizure drug levetiracetam. In the late 1980s, Michael Cima, professor of Materials Science and Engineering, along with fellow MIT professor Emanuel Sachs invented the...

A single escaped organism is all it’ll take…

Evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, works with gene drives, engineered bits of DNA that can cause a mutation to become heritable all the time. He calls for researchers to create and use safe lab procedures while working with...

A Numismatist of Note

Any archaeological find is twice-born. First: On the day the object is unearthed -- it is brought to light, as it were. Second: when its mystery is unraveled—the how, when, and where—and the object is woven into the continuum of human history. Without this...

Closing The Education Divide

In the Arab world, sheer numbers call for leap-frogging into digital learning, said Maysa Jalbout, CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education. Over half the 385 million people who live the region are under 25 years of age, she said. A good many...

Can Digital Learning Include the Developing World?

Al Fanar Media Vijee Venkatraman / 29 May 2016 As educational technology evolves, digital learning is poised to expand its reach in the developing world. Last week, over two hundred practitioners from the Learning International Networks Consortium convened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore...