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Home | January/February 2026 | Blue Skies Smiling At Me
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Editorial
Moving On
Nazli Choucri, Christopher Cummins, Yoel Fink, Thomas Heldt, Tanalís Padilla, Nasser Rabbat, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Robert Redwine, Franz-Josef Ulm
The Freedom of the University: A History in Eleven Quotations
Malick W. Ghachem
Faculty Travelogue
How Birding and Engineering Brought Me to Write: Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders
Lorna Gibson
From The Faculty Chair
Committees, Task Forces, and Working Groups – the Ins and Outs
Roger Levy
FNL Editorial Board Election Outcome
Christopher Cummins, Thomas Heldt, Robert Redwine
Blue Skies Smiling At Me
On Fiscal Balance, Entropy, and the Temperature of Knowledge
Franz-Josef Ulm
A Student Expulsion at MIT: Questions About the MIT Disciplinary Process
Dwaipayan Banerjee, Sally Haslanger, Nancy Kanwisher, Ceasar McDowell, Haynes Miller, Margery Resnick
Where is Your Memory? On Historical Amnesia, Selective Moral Disengagement, and Reality-Bending
Michel DeGraff
MIT Numbers
MIT Faculty Age Distribution
January/February 2026Vol. XXXVIII No. 4

Blue Skies Smiling At Me

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