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The Download: the mortality issue, and America’s new favorite shopping app

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Conspiracy theorists have seized upon Russia’s “dirty bomb” claimsDespite there being no evidence for its existence.... Read more »

Everything dies, including information

Quite a bit, according to the experts. For one thing, what we think is permanent isn’t. Digital storage systems can become unreadable in as little as three to five years. Librarians and... Read more »

Cars are still cars—even when they’re electric

When Biden arrived at General Motors, he jumped behind the wheel not of a Bolt, the company’s electric subcompact car, but the new Hummer EV, a vehicle that’s the embodiment of everything... Read more »

Never say die

This is mostly pretty cool. Beats the alternative, as they say. But one decidedly uncool thing about being almost 50 is that my “bad” LDL cholesterol is too high. The obvious solution... Read more »

Portraits of Black life in the South

Upon arrival in a town or city, my first concern was to find the area where Black Americans lived and worked. This was almost always easy to do: drive away from rich... Read more »

The bilingual brain

Saima Malik-Moraleda, a fifth-year PhD student in the Harvard/MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, is trying to help answer this question. In the process, she hopes to uncover ways... Read more »

How to see inside a tornado

Bluestein became interested in extreme weather at age five, when he struggled to run home against the wind as Hurricane Carol passed through his town, a suburb of Boston. Another time, lightning... Read more »

The perks of being MIT alumni

You can also stay connected to other alumni by keeping your personal and professional information up-to-date on a secure platform.  The IC is your go-to for setting your contact preferences, including email... Read more »

Building tomorrow’s world in words

WRAP, part of Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W), improves students’ communication skills through four communications-intensive undergraduate requirements. “We help students understand the central genres in their discipline,” she says. “How do you make... Read more »

A search engine for shapes

Born and raised in Shanghai, Tan came to MIT to study high-energy astrophysics and wrote his dissertation on computational modeling of neutron stars. “Coming from China at that time, I had very... Read more »