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Social Innovation and Ethical Reflection
Radius (and the Technology and Culture Forum) has a long tradition of partnering with a wide array of departments and programs here at MIT. These partnerships have enriched our…
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Hack Your Mind is Back!
Greetings! My name is Paul McAlister and I am a 3rd year divinity student at the Episcopal Divinity School in Harvard Square. As an intern for Radius and the Episcopal…
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Happy New Year!
I love this time of year! A new academic year is beginning and with that comes the wonderful sense of new beginnings, possibility and adventure, accompanied by the normal…
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The Power of Uni-tasking
For over a year now, Radius has been co-sponsoring Hack Your Mind, a popular lunchtime series on technology and mindfulness with topics ranging from stress reduction to Facebook (and…
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CityDays MIT 2016
When I was growing up, volunteering in a concrete, organized way–except for our church–was not part of my life. In addition to church volunteering, my mother would readily help neighbors…
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Being. Doing. Thinking. Or Not!
Each spring semester, Radius co-hosts an undergraduate ethics seminar with the Philosophy Department. Departing from a more academic-styled class, the seminar, Being. Thinking. Doing. (Or Not!): Ethics in Your Life, is…
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Scott I Paradise: April 6, 1929-September 13, 2015
During his tenure from 1978 to his retirement in 1994, I had the honor of working with The Rev. Scott I. Paradise, the convener of the Technology and Culture…
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It’s New, It’s Fast, but is it Good?
“You put the cotton in here,” the museum guide said, pointing to one side of a small machine. His small model of the cotton gin picked up the bolls…
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Change Ahead
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…
Blog Topic: Ethics in the workplace
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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Digital Distraction Overdrive
Robert Plotkin, guest blogger, will be giving a workshop as part of Radius’s “Hack Your…
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Looking Ahead With a Look Back
Weeks have flown by and, just like that, the semester is over and we are…