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InciterHealth To Re-imagine Healthcare

The primary healthcare system in the U.S. may not be broken, but it is fractured and needs fixing. This is the general consensus. (Do listen to what Dr.Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, has to say on this topic.) Here is a...

MIT and The Shortcut to Nirvana

The colorful and chaotic Kumbh Mela (Kumbh, for short) is possibly the largest religious gathering on earth. The Hindu pilgrimage, which happens once in twelve years in an Indian city, draws millions of devotees. Now, thanks to Ramesh Raskar, a MIT Media Lab professor whose...

Watching you Watching Me

For people who use video chat services to catch up with someone close—a beloved grandma or dear friend—it’s pretty easy to read the cues and reactions of a familiar face. But in video chats among a group of people, say a business meeting among different...

Local Warming

Humans don't hibernate -- we work in our offices all through the winter. How does being ensconced in a heat bubble during those cold months strike you? An art installation dubbed “Local Warming” which offers a preview of such personalized climate control, returns from the...

At MIT, dine like a 14th-century nobleman

"For over a decade, during the Independent Activities Period between semesters, MIT has offered a non-credit class on “old food’’ from the region around the Mediterranean Sea. The idea came from conversations history department chair Anne McCants, who teaches the class, had with a colleague...