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Patents applied for by MIT and issued to MIT, by year, from 2000 through 2009.

Source: Jack H. Turner, MIT Technology Licensing Office

Patents issued to U.S. universities every five years since 1969. In 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act was passed, and many more patents were issued.

Source: United States Patent & Trademark Office

Swede Noomi Rapace gives a stunning performance as computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Courtesy of Music Box Films

Your typical hero story, but with cuter characters.

Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a...piano? As a Baker House tradition on drop date, President Andy Wu ’12 released the cumbersome musical instrument off the roof into the courtyard on Thursday evening.

Vibin A. Kundukulam—The Tech