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Professor Smith (Zachary Abbott) stares down a grad student in the PhD movie.

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Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Friday, October 28, 2011

Arthur Ganson’s “Margot’s Other Cat” adds a touch of humor to Gestural Engineering, on view at the MIT Museum.

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Detail of the coupled gear systems in “Machine with 11 Scraps of Paper” from Arthur Ganson’s Gestural Engineering exhibit.

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Robert J. Silbey talks at MacVicar Day in 2005.

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Andy Liang, Ian Gorodisher — The Tech

Yung Ho Chang and Ying chee Chui designed a $1K house prototype based on a single module with branching rectangular rooms.

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Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross blends painting and real life.

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Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Sander (Ulrich Thomsen) examine a mysterious something in “The Thing.”

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The $1K house prototype in Sichuan, China, actually ended up costing $6K, but the building was 30 percent bigger than originally planned.

courtesy of ying chee chui