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Fall 2026 issue preview @IntSecHarvard!
50th anniversary essays | McDermott; Snyder
Defending liberal order | G. John Ikenberry
Amphibious landings | Miller
Malacca myth | @HugoBromley @eyckfreymann
Correspondence | Cebul, @areddie89, Mount, Tottman, @DrSarahPhillips, Tower
"A gentle, donnish erudition to the study of aesthetics ... It’s a splendid collision of philosophy with biological and cognitive science."
A review of Nicholas Humphrey's "Why Is the World So Beautiful" in @ConversationEDU. theconversation.com/why-do-w…
"Complete objectivity is an illusion; context and power always enter in." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a…
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#MapOfTheWeek: “Mapa de Teozacoalco” 📍🗺️
This week’s Map of the Week features a 446-year-old map of Teozacoalco, an ancient town in what is now Oaxaca, Mexico.
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#History #IndegenousPeople #Mixtec #Visualization
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"We study communication frictions within multinationals (MNCs), hypothesizing that language barriers reduce management knowledge transfers within the organization."
NEW in The Review of Economics and Statistics: direct.mit.edu/rest/article/…
“In one study, doctors who compared notes with peers for five minutes doubled their diagnostic accuracy. They got no new facts, no extra time, and no training. Only the network changed." bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub…
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Countdown to #ThePowerofLines (mitpress.mit.edu/97802620571…) pub day (20 days!) from @mitpress. Enjoy today's teaser! #linearalgebra #math
"ELIZA shaped not only the way we think about interacting with computers but also how we think about them. It began to give a reality to the science fiction stories of how we expect computers to work."
An excerpt of "Inventing ELIZA" @IEEESpectrum: spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chat…
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Generations before us fought for our right to walk.
In 1966 Louisville community leader Vernice Hunter told a reporter: “There have been three deaths there—some say five—in the last two years. One little boy’s eye was knocked out. One of my neighbors had both legs broken.” ...
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How does limiting nationwide injunctions affect constitutional rights? Professor Irwin P. Stotzky co-authored an article examining Trump v. CASA, birthright citizenship, and equality under the law. direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/… @mitpress
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Celebrating that the @NextBigIdeaClub has selected my book “A mother’s Brain” as a monthly must read @mitpress
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In "Carcass," award-winning journalist Kristin Hugo offers a deeply original, if macabre, exploration of animal remains, their significance, and their critical roles in human lives and the world.
"Carcass" releases in March 2027. Preorder here: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620546…
New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📖
ALT Two book covers on a purple gradient: "Neuroevolution" and "The Trembling City"
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Pasadena and LA metro friends! I'll be talking with Andy Maltz about Better Tech at @vromans on October 30 at 7. How can we thrive when AI and tech are moving at breakneck speed? Come join the conversation! @mitpress @lissa_warren @manningcics
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Countdown to #ThePowerofLines (mitpress.mit.edu/97802620571…) pub day (23 days!) from @mitpress. Enjoy today's teaser! #linearalgebra #math
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#NewBook Alert: Jayant V. Narlikar's #Virus: Annotated for Today's Global Digital Humans (and Aliens). Had a great time working on this with a team of wonderful people. More power to #ScienceFiction in #India. Link: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620562…
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New paper from the lab on the mathematical brain :
Using NeuroSpin's 7T fMRI during a number comparison task, Daniela Valerio uncovered a cortical map for numbers which, in educated adults, integrates small integers (0-5) and simple fractions (e.g. 3/2).
@cdf1530 @NeuroSpin_91
"An ode to the remarkable ‘plasticity’ or adaptability of the brain and body during and after pregnancy."
@liisagalea reviews "A Mother's Brain" for @Nature:
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"We don’t like disorder and chaos. The philosopher David Hume said, 'Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye.' On the whole, we try to avoid situations where we’re confronted with things we can’t make sense of." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/b…
A great companion read: "The Machine and the Microchip" (out in January) takes readers inside ASML, a little-known Dutch company at one of the world’s most consequential technological chokepoints: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620641…
They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
