Henri Michaux: “All night long, I push a wheelbarrow … it’s so cumbersome. And on this wheelbarrow sits a huge toad … it’s so heavy, and its body gets bigger as the night goes on.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/notes-on-the-r…
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social
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For more than a century, inventors have promised to radically individualize and automate the classroom. Audrey Watters explains why the history of teaching machines complicates that promise today: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-the-classr…
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Here's an excerpt from the book:
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ai-insight-pro…
Philip Laughlin@PhilipLaughlin
Very pleased to see that Herb Roitblat's @mitpress book "Algorithms Are Not Enough" has begun to consistently appear on our Amazon Best Seller list. I've always felt this book deserved more attention. a.co/d/041J55j3 #Amazon via @Amazon
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Thousands of shipping containers vanish at sea each year. But as Alexander Klose writes, these disasters are “not all for naught.” By tracking spilled goods, oceanographers have used these “accidental probes” to map the ocean’s hidden currents.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-shipping-c…
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For my new book I’m writing on the history of epidemics in Texas and how they affected Texas history with @mitpress I’m trying to understand how historians approach a subject, it’s so interesting to learn how they think through problems and actually far more overlap with the natural sciences than I realized
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"It is pretty hard to publish a scientific case report about a grandma reaching 88 years old, but if she manages 122 you might even squeeze a book out of it." newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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"We’ve spent a lot of time rearranging our lives around things that aren’t natural or inevitable. It doesn’t have to be that way."
Can the Classroom Ever Be Automated? | The MIT Press Reader thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-the-classr…
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Kate's @mitpress book A DRIVE TO SURVIVE is worth checking out, too.
Paul Middlebrooks@pgmid
One of us, @KathrynNave, has a gift for communicating thorny ideas, like active inference and the free energy principle. The question is, how do we tell the story from single cell metabolism to multicellular organism extraordinaire Kate Nave? braininspired.co/podcast/242/
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ICYMI: We're launching a new journal! NeuroNexus brings together research from psychology, neuroscience, and computer science to advance the science of human and machine intelligence.
More info here (and call for papers to come):
mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-…
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Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-gi…
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“The world is a wonderful interface to engage with,” said Rachel Plotnick, an expert in human-technology relationships at Indiana University and author of "Power Button." “Giving that up comes with a real loss.” vox.com/the-highlight/…
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Lee Alan Dugatkin's account of how a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt — and ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation — is out on SEPTEMBER 8!
Learn more/pre-order here: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054546/…
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"The Hypocrisy Trap" looks at how our desire to stamp out hypocrisy is backfiring—and how learning to target our criticisms better can improve our politics, business, & personal relationships.
"Bracing, insightful, and quietly optimistic."
—@DanielPink
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050944/…
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In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come. wired.com/story/inventin…
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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📙
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It was a pleasure to sit down with @carlorovelli for this conversation. Thanks to @berggruenInst and @FuturologyPod.
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"If you took any of today's frontier models and you time-traveled back to the year 2000, everybody would say, 'Yeah, we're there.'" Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas (@blaiseaguera) says AGI already arrived. We just moved the goalposts. Full episode here: youtu.be/tDccIoz-SFI
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"Even if that quack doctor could add five years to your life, what would be the point? You’ve wasted the past 30 in a perpetual state of health anxiety." spectator.com/article/longev…
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Congratulations to @BurelAnna for being selected as the Adult Factual Runner Up at this year’s V&A Illustration Awards for her work on “Conceiving Histories” by Isabel Davis! 🏆
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ICYMI: This one is now available! A new, annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553865/…
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"Leah Stokes, maybe our leading expert on utilities, played a huge role in getting the IRA through and tells that story in a book called 'The Carbon Wave.' It’s a great insider political account, and it’s also a beautiful story..."
—Bill McKibben
nytimes.com/2026/07/10/opi…
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