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Vol.XXXV No. 3January-April 2023
State Housing Policies and Their Impact on MIT Students, Faculty, and Staff
Thousands of MIT graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty are impacted by decisions made by our state legislature. One of the areas where the legislature can have the biggest impact...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
How Deep is Your Love of Free Expression?
Who among us has not, at one point or another, entertained the heretical thought that MIT faculty meetings can sometimes seem like less than scintillating affairs? Let those without sin...
Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War
Please sign this letter from college and university faculty and staffs. Sixty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. At present, threats to launch...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Estimated Global Nuclear Warhead Inventories, 2022
Despite progress in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, the world’s combined inventory of nuclear warheads remains at a very high level: nine countries possessed roughly 12,700 warheads...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Open Letter to Presidents Biden, Putin, and Zelensky: Pursue Diplomatic Solutions to Avoid Nuclear War
Please sign this letter from college and university faculty and staffs. Sixty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. At present, threats to launch...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
MITx Update for MIT Faculty: Fall 2022
November 16, 2022 marked one year since the sale of edX, the nonprofit organization launched by MIT and Harvard in 2012 to provide an open online platform for university courses,...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Graduate Student Unionization: A Positive Force for All at MIT
In April 2022, MIT graduate workers[1] overwhelmingly voted for union representation. Since then, a supermajority of us grad workers have signed cards with the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU). One...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Avoiding Nuclear War
Sixty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. At present, threats by North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, former US President Donald Trump, and most recently...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
Never Mind the Firehose, You Can’t Even Lead Them to Water
I’m co-teaching this semester and have been attending my co-instructor’s lectures. I’ve been sitting behind the students and observing how they are engaging. It’s not pretty. My rough estimates are...