| Foreword
Jane Pickering
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| Introduction
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson
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| Where No Cow Has Gone Before: Accessing the Inaccessible | 1 |
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| | | Hack, Hacker, Hacking | 4 |
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| Auto Industry: The Great Vehicle Hacks | 5 |
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| | | Hacking Ethics | 10 |
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| Domework: Hacking the Domes
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| | | Dome as Dais | 12 |
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| Greener Pastures: The Green Building Hacks | 27 |
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| | | Greenspeak Spoken Here | 31 |
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| | | Intriguing Hacks to Fascinate People | 35 |
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| Making an Entrance: The Lobby 7 Hacks | 37 |
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| | | Father's Tool Grand Tour | 47 |
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| | | Under the Dome | 54 |
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| "All Mondays Should Be So Beautiful": The Art of Hacking Art | 57 |
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| | | U.S.S. Tetazoo | 62 |
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| | | No Knife | 63 |
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| | | Why Ruin the Atrium? | 64 |
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| | | Green Eggs and Hair | 65 |
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| Form + Function = Hack: The Architecture Hacks | 67 |
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| | | A Guide for New Employees: Building History and Numbering System | 73 |
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| Hacking as Campus Commentary: The Editorial Hacks | 75 |
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| A Sign of the Times: Hacking with Signs and Banners | 85 |
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| The Numbers Game: Hackers Reinvent Measurement | 97 |
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| | | Recalculating the Infinite Corridor | 101 |
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| Beyond Recognition: Commemoration Hacks | 103 |
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| Object Lessons: Hacks in the Classroom | 113 |
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| | | Why Sleep through a Class When You Can Hack It? | 115 |
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| Worth a Thousand Words: Hacks Fit to Print | 119 |
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| | | That VooDoo That You Do | 121 |
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| Teaching a Nation to Make Snow: Hoax Hacks | 125 |
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| "Please Wait to Be Served": The Performance Hacks | 125 |
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| When MIT Won the Harvard-Yale Game: Hacking Harvard | 129 |
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| | | Student Leaders at MIT Claim Harvard as Colony | 140 |
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| | | The John Harvard Hacks | 141 |
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| Because It's There: The Best of the Rest | 143 |
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| | | Hacking by Mail | 150 |
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| Zen and the Art of Hacking: The Essays | 151 |
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| | | The Case of the Disappearing President's Office
Charles M. Vest | 152 |
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| | | Door Man
Richard Feynman | 153 |
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| | | It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure
David Barber | 155 |
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| | | The Great Breast of Knowledge
Brian Leibowitz | 159 |
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| | | Mastery over the Physical World: Demonstrative and Pedagogical Value of the MIT Hack
André DeHon | 160 |
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| | | Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They
Samuel Jay Keyser | 162 |
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| | | Engineering in Action
Eri Izawa | 165 |
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| | | Why We Hack | 169 |
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| Glossary of MIT Vernacular | 171 |
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| Sources | 175 |
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| Photo Credits | 177 |
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