Five Minutes with Lane Relyea
October 28, 2013
Here’s Five minutes with Lane Relyea, author of Your Everyday Art World.
October 28, 2013
Here’s Five minutes with Lane Relyea, author of Your Everyday Art World.
October 25, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of long-time MIT Press classics. See previous posts from the series on Learnability and Cognition and Matter and Consciousness.
October 23, 2013
Our first Open Access Week post came from Charlie Schweik, author of Internet Success. Today, we have Peter Suber author of Open Access, part of our MIT Essential Knowledge Series.
October 18, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of four long-time MIT Press classics.
October 14, 2013
For Columbus Day, we thought we’d ask Nicolás Wey Gómez, author of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies, to share with us some thoughts on “the Discoverer.”
October 11, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of four long-time MIT Press classics and will run each Friday over the next month.
October 9, 2013
Earlier today, President Obama announced his nomination of Janet L. Yellen to be the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke. If confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Yellen would become the first woman to lead the central banking system of the United States.
October 7, 2013
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the American assembly line. And by this day in 1913, 140 workers were placed along a 150-foot chassis line at Highland Park, a Ford Motor Co. plant located just north of Detroit that became the first automobile production facility to implement the assembly line. David Nye, author of America’s Assembly Line, shares these thoughts and reflections on the centenary and the continuing evolution of the assembly line:
September 26, 2013
On the eve of the release of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we thought we should ask Jörg Friedrichs, the author of The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity, about the panel’s importance, and about what people can and should do with the information in what is expected to be an alarming new report. He sent these thoughts:
September 10, 2013
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our author Daniel L. Schodek who passed away on August 27 at the age of 72.