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"A pleasure to read. And it is all too timely—a cautionary tale." @JamesGleick reviews "Inventing ELIZA" for @nybooks. nybooks.com/articles/2026/11…

Talk to It | James Gleick

This is the chatbots’ original sin: they are programmed to deceive us.

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Franz Kafka, though a writer, is also a kind of literary philosopher, whose works probe humanity’s greatest questions. In an interview, Aaron Schuster explains how the writer’s work turns philosophy into “an object of wonder for itself.” Read more: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/w…
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New and #OpenAccess: "Getting to Work on Climate Policy" "When do labor and environmental groups join forces to tackle climate change? Geoffrey Henderson’s compelling answer couldn’t be timelier." — @Jacob_S_Hacker mitpress.mit.edu/97802620556…
Book cover titled "Getting to Work on Climate Policy: The Strategy of Labor-Environmental Coalitions" by Geoffrey Henderson. Beneath the cover, a black banner announcing "Now Available Open Access" with direct.mit.edu and a "Direct to Open" D2O logo.

ALT Book cover titled "Getting to Work on Climate Policy: The Strategy of Labor-Environmental Coalitions" by Geoffrey Henderson. Beneath the cover, a black banner announcing "Now Available Open Access" with direct.mit.edu and a "Direct to Open" D2O logo.

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"A tribute to the under-appreciated men and women who helped make the world a better place by learning from tragedy." Kevin Dickinson recommends "Nary a Horse Left Standing" in his list of 5 books to give your brain a workout via @bigthink. bigthinkbooks.substack.com/p…
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Imaging Neuroscience@ImagingNeurosci21h
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Simon Leipold, Ivan Toni, et al: Inter-subject correlations and their behavioral associations vary across movies: Implications for generalizability doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1400
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ArtReview_@ArtReview_Oct 21
The philosopher on how we might respond to a world of digital alienation artreview.com/byung-chul-han…

Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”

The philosopher on how we might respond to a world of digital alienation

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Michael David Kirchhoff@MdKirchhoffOct 20
Author copies of 'The Idealized Brain: Uniting Philosophy of Science and Computational Neuroscience' (MIT) have arrived. Exciting! Stay tuned for its official open access release on 15 December 2026. For more information about the book, see mitpress.mit.edu/97802620549…
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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📖
Six book covers on a green blue background: "Futures in the Making," "Data by Design," "Computational Intractability," "An Open Work," "The Radical Unpresent," and "How Institutions Listen."

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In his new book “Morbid," Dr. Saul Newman argues that “aging science” has fallen under an avalanche of grift and mail-order marketing scams. His AMA starts in just a few minutes. Join him at r/IAmA and ask him anything! reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1… @reddit_AMA
Saul Newman holding two pieces of paper that advertises his Reddit AMA on October 20th with the MIT Press username the_mit_press

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Groups are not naturally wise or foolish. Their structure decides. In "Goodthink," Damon Centola shows how evenly distributed influence helps groups correct errors, reduce polarization, and make better decisions. 5 insights via @NextBigIdeaClub: bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub…

Doctors Doubled Their Accuracy in 5 Minutes. All They Did Was Compare Notes.

A Penn network scientist on why the same group can be brilliant or foolish, and how to build teams that get smarter together.

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What makes a toy a good toy? To Jess Uhre Rahbek, who spent years developing a theory of play while studying with @LEGO_Group's in-house design team, it’s all about creating objects that foster “playful tension.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/h…
Four LEGO figures on a rainbow LEGO background Headline: How LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything Subheading: The bricks' meticulous design fosters just enough structure to make creation meaningful and just enough freedom to make anything seem possible. By Jess Uhre Rahbek

ALT Four LEGO figures on a rainbow LEGO background Headline: How LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything Subheading: The bricks' meticulous design fosters just enough structure to make creation meaningful and just enough freedom to make anything seem possible. By Jess Uhre Rahbek

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Lissa Warren@lissa_warrenOct 18
"A lot of people feel like there's nothing they can do...There's something everyone can do to make their cyberspace safer." Listen to Francine Berman on @radioopensource discussing her book, BETTER TECH: Putting People First in Cyberspace. bit.ly/4ypmopy @mitpress
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Strange Attractor@strangepressOct 17
Have you seen our most newest titles? See what we've recently published or titles that are coming soon via the MIT press catalogue and our website 👀 mitpress.mit.edu/publisher/s…
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Oscar E. Fernandez@EverydayCalcOct 18
Countdown to #ThePowerofLines pub day (29 days!) from @mitpress. Enjoy today's teaser!
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"Essential reading for anyone who has ever looked at a map or a graph. It will change the way you think about information design forever." — @MonaChalabi "Data By Design" shows how visualization can lead to a more liberatory world. Out Oct 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620561…
3D image of "Data By Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science" by Lauren Klein. With Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Marguerite Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li and Silas Munro

ALT 3D image of "Data By Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science" by Lauren Klein. With Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Marguerite Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li and Silas Munro

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In "Morbid," Dr. Saul Newman explores the extraordinary failures of modern aging science and how it has been overtaken by profitable bunk. Join him for a Reddit AMA (@ r/IAmA) on Tuesday, October 20th at 9 am ET!
Saul Newman holding two pieces of paper that advertises his Reddit AMA on October 20th with the MIT Press username the_mit_press

ALT Saul Newman holding two pieces of paper that advertises his Reddit AMA on October 20th with the MIT Press username the_mit_press

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Awe thrives on human connection, but tech-inspired awe crowds out that human element, "divorc[ing] the observer from the sense of connection with others" as "American Technological Sublime" author David Nye once observed. time.com/article/2026/10/02/…

Awe in the Age of AI

"While acknowledging the amazing capacity of AI, we shouldn’t lose sight of the irreplaceable value of human-generated awe," writes Arianna Huffington.

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The U.S. Department of Defense conceived GPS in 1973. But as Alexander MacDonald writes, Edward Everett Hale dreamed up the idea of using a satellite to determine one’s position on Earth over a century earlier. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
An illustration of The Brick Moon, a short story written in 1869 by Edward Everett Hale. Headline: The Teenagers Who Imagined GPS Before the Civil War Subheading: While at Harvard in the 1830s, a 13-year-old Edward Everett Hale and his brother dreamed up a brick satellite that could pinpoint any ship's location on Earth. By Alexander MacDonald

ALT An illustration of The Brick Moon, a short story written in 1869 by Edward Everett Hale. Headline: The Teenagers Who Imagined GPS Before the Civil War Subheading: While at Harvard in the 1830s, a 13-year-old Edward Everett Hale and his brother dreamed up a brick satellite that could pinpoint any ship's location on Earth. By Alexander MacDonald

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"It’s one thing to be attacked by the fossil fuel industry, and quite another to be attacked by your own side." @leahstokes and @billmckibben discussed the long, slow process of changing climate policy @lithub: lithub.com/leah-c-stokes-tal…

Leah C. Stokes Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth with Bill McKibben

It is quite rare to find someone who is a first-class academic and analyst, and is also able to become a first-class activist, but Leah Stokes is a triple threat. A political scientist at UC Santa …

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"Rhyme is in the DNA of the world we live in." An interview with "Why Is the World So Beautiful?" author Nicholas Humphrey on Instant Genius @sciencefocus: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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