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Last week, NASA’s New Horizons interplanetary probe made its way to Pluto and the outer reaches of our solar system, after an almost-10 year voyage. The photos sent back…
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It is so ordered. Thus, the final words of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion written last Thursday, June 26, when the United States Supreme Court held that all same-sex marriage…
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“If race is a cultural category, why can’t you choose your identity?” my students asked over dinner last Wednesday. They were thinking through the news from Spokane, where it…
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This past Monday, MIT’s Climate Change Conversation Committee released their findings following a ten-month effort to engage the MIT community in dialogue about climate change. The “conversation” leadership team, headed…
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This past Saturday, over 220 young people, ages 13-18, took over the Stata “Street” and lecture halls as we hosted the 9th Annual Youth Summit on Climate Change. It…
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I wanted to follow up on Trish’s May 4 blog about the importance of finding a focus for our action in the face of the many problems of the…
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Throughout the semester, Radius has been exploring a wide range of topics, including housing and gentrification (particularly right here in Cambridge), nuclear non-proliferation, the food supply, prison reform, omnivorism…
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All semester, we’ve been having substantive and challenging conversations in our Tuesday evening ethics seminar. Usually, a guest talks about his or her area of expertise and then we…
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Innovation is the core of MIT’s self-image. No matter what problem the world might throw at us, we treat it as a design challenge waiting for a creative mind…
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Awareness has been building around the issue of fossil fuel divestment. Not only here in Cambridge, at MIT and Harvard, but across the country and the globe. According to…
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Join the conversation. In this blog, Radius staff and friends share updates and perspectives on current ethical issues in science and technology.
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How Do We Engage in Civil Conversations in An Age of Polarization?
This Wednesday, we will host our 4th (in a series of 5) program focusing on…
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Gerrymandering
Greetings! My name is Shannon Schmidt, and I am working with MIT Radius this academic…