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He won second place in the MIT Battlecode’s high school division and advanced to the Google Code Jam Coding Contest semifinal, a global coding competition.

Good thing for them that in last year’s World Series most New York Yankees hitters had yet to equip themselves with the bat conceived by an MIT physicist turned baseball analytics nerd.

“If you sort Americans by wealth, and forget about the top 10% or 20%, most of our wealth is indeed in housing,” Albert Saiz, faculty director of the Urban Economics Lab at MIT, told Salon.

MIT aeronautics professor R. John Hansman said that it's important to take stock of safety concerns, but also to recognise that the American aviation system is one of the safest in the world.

MIT physicist William Coolidge had discovered tungsten’s laudable properties for light bulbs and later for X-ray tubes, and for nearly a dozen years, until about 1920, Atolia, the desert mining town that tungsten built, thrived.