March for Science
April 19, 2017
The MIT Press is proud to announce its partnership with the March for Science, a series of events across the country planned to coincide with Earth Day on April 22, 2017.
Category: Science
Brain Awareness Week: The Digital Mind
March 17, 2017
What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices. The power of the human brain is, so far, unequaled by any existing machine or known living being. In our final post celebrating Brain Awareness Week, Arlindo Oliveira discusses how advances in science and technology could enable us to create digital minds.
Five Minutes with Clifford Siskin
December 19, 2016
Clifford Siskin discusses his new book, System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge, which explains the long history of “blaming the system” from Galileo to the political economy of the early-nineteenth century to today.
Spotlight on Science: Jeremy Trevelyan Burman
September 22, 2016
We spoke with Dr. Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, PhD for this month’s Spotlight on Science Q&A.
Spotlight on Science: Carol Steen
August 16, 2016
This month’s Spotlight on Science looks at the intersection of synesthesia and art. Carol Steen discusses her own synesthesia and her journey to understand it, how synesthesia has impacted her art, and the increase in synesthesia awareness and research.
Spotlight on Science: Beatrice Golomb
June 30, 2016
We’re back with another installment of Spotlight on Science. Dr. Beatrice A. Golomb (University of California, San Diego) talks about her research into how the chemical compound Coenzyme Q10 could benefit Gulf War veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness (GWI). Her article is among the most popular from the journal Neural Computation over the last year, according to Altmetric Explorer. Read the article for free on our SOS page.
Five Minutes with Harris Wiseman
June 14, 2016
Can “moral bioenhancement”—using technological or pharmaceutical means to boost the morally desirable and remove the morally problematic—bring about a morally improved humanity? In The Myth of the Moral Brain, Harris Wiseman draws on insights from philosophy, biology, theology, and clinical psychology to make the case that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it. Harris Wiseman discusses his book, which considers an integrated approach to moral enhancement.
MIT Media Lab and MIT Press Launch Journal of Design and Science
February 24, 2016
The MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press today announced the launch the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS).