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"Care for the dying resembles nothing so much as care for the newly born. This deep, immeasurable connection is precisely what Michael Erard, a linguist and historian, most wants to explore." The Wall Street Journal reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" by Michael Erard: https://bit.ly/3QAHNJ4

Television, film, online video - together, the moving image - is today's most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world's internet traffic is video. American's get their news and information more often from screens and speakers than through any other means. MIT Open Learning's Peter B. Kaufman and GBH Archives Director Karen Cariani will explore the reach and power of the moving image - and survey how much of that power is really under our control. Kaufman's 2025 book The Moving Image: A User's Manual (The MIT Press) will be the starting point for a lively discussion of the medium's ascendance in education, politics, and knowledge disemination over the decades to come. March 26 6-8pm $15 General Admission | $5 for MIT ID Holders https://lnkd.in/e6WsaEWy

"I invite you to weave a practice of observing seasonal cycles of plants and animals into your life to contribute to science as well as soothe your soul," writes plant ecologist Theresa Crimmins. In anticipation of the first day of spring, The New York Times interviewed the author of "Phenology" on how we, and gardeners in particular, can piece together a more textured sense of spring's start from real-time clues found in our backyard: https://lnkd.in/dH2i8-4C

Thank you for helping us meet our 24-hour challenge! We are truly grateful to all who donated yesterday in support of the MIT Press Muriel Cooper Memorial Design Fund. Together, we are reinforcing Muriel Cooper’s design legacy and ensuring that the physical book continues to be an object that inspires affection and delight.

"Even the most rigorous data does not speak for itself. Data requires interpretation and storytelling. 'More data' does not inherently mean 'more knowledge,' any more than a personal library with more books necessarily makes its owner smarter or well read. The accumulation of facts is not the same as wisdom." TIME excerpts "The Weaponization of Expertise" by Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson: https://lnkd.in/eUUBscjv

During today's 24-Hour challenge, our goal is to reach 100 donations (of any size) to the Muriel Cooper Memorial Design Fund. This fund supports the production of cutting-edge publications like "Voidopolis," a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book made to disappear. If we meet today's micro-challenge, we also unlock a generous $10,000 gift from prominent architectural historian and author, Victoria Newhouse. Help us honor the late graphic designer Muriel Cooper’s legacy by making a gift today!: https://lnkd.in/gJ-QhRf5

Despite her landmark work on enduring projects such as "Bauhaus" (1969), and "Learning from Las Vegas" (1972), the late Muriel Cooper remains largely unknown today outside of the design world. In honor of her legacy of innovation in visual communication, our 24-Hour Challenge is raising funds to support the Cooper Memorial Design Fund: https://bit.ly/3I9Wn6g Make a gift today and support access to quality, beautifully designed publications at the MIT Press! #MIT24

My dear friend, Ainissa Ramirez, Ph.D., an admired scholar, a generous contributor to education, an award-winning author, a scientist, and above all, a science Evangelist has a new book out. "Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone" See: https://lnkd.in/guCfbTeF I love inspirational science books aimed at kids. Beneath the surface, if I am anything, it is a kid who loves science, discovery, wonder, and awe. So, I have just pre-ordered my copy. Thank you, Ainissa! Some who may wish to repost, comment, or celebrate include: Chandan K Sen, Cato Laurencin, Freeman Hrabowski, Mona Fouad, Samuel Obeng, Richard DiMarchi, Nikhil Dhurandhar, M. N. V. Ravi Kumar, Sudip Parikh, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Rita Colwell, Carl V. Hill, Edmond Ramly, PhD, Carmen Tekwe-Zoh, Maresa Murray, John Nieto-Phillips, Rashad Nelms, JD, Charlie Nelms, Olivia Affuso, PhD, FACSM, Bertha Hidalgo, PhD, MPH, FACE, Jasmin Divers, Sylvia R. Karasu, M.D., Hassan Tetteh MD MBA FAMIA, Diana Thomas, Se Kim, PhD, MBA, Jamie Vernon, Lehana Thabane, PhD, Cecilia Obeng, David Hayes-Bautista, Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD, FTOS, Pierre Theodore, Haya Al Saud, Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, Diana Thomas, Eboni Winford, Ph.D., MPH, Patricia Silveyra, Joanna M..

Join the MIT Press 24 Hour Challenge on March 13th to support beautifully designed publications! #MIT24 This year marks the 100th anniversary of design maverick Muriel Cooper’s birth. In celebration of our first art director and the designer of our iconic colophon, this microchallenge supports the Muriel Cooper Memorial Design Fund and the creation of exquisitely designed books that honor Cooper’s legacy of innovation in visual communication: https://lnkd.in/gYR-9ina

We've got a handful of great books publishing today, among them “What is Life?” by leading AI researcher, Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Taking its title from theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 book of the same name, “What Is Life?” shows how self-reproduction, hence life, is inherently computational. Drawing on decades of theory and existing literature as well as recent experiments in artificial life, Agüera y Arcas demonstrates how life’s essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships: https://lnkd.in/dhttM42N This small, richly illustrated volume, designed by James Goggin of Practise, is the first part of Agüera y Arcas’s larger book “What Is Intelligence?,” which further develops a computational and symbiotic perspective on intelligence, from simple organisms to brains and societies to AI:  https://lnkd.in/giEVkum9. "What Is Intelligence?" will be released in September 2025 as part of the new Antikythera and MIT Press series.