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In "Carcass," award-winning journalist Kristin Hugo offers a deeply original, if macabre, exploration of animal remains, their significance, and their critical roles in human lives and the world.
"Carcass" releases in March 2027. Preorder here: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620546…
New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📖
ALT Two book covers on a purple gradient: "Neuroevolution" and "The Trembling City"
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Pasadena and LA metro friends! I'll be talking with Andy Maltz about Better Tech at @vromans on October 30 at 7. How can we thrive when AI and tech are moving at breakneck speed? Come join the conversation! @mitpress @lissa_warren @manningcics
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Countdown to #ThePowerofLines (mitpress.mit.edu/97802620571…) pub day (23 days!) from @mitpress. Enjoy today's teaser! #linearalgebra #math
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#NewBook Alert: Jayant V. Narlikar's #Virus: Annotated for Today's Global Digital Humans (and Aliens). Had a great time working on this with a team of wonderful people. More power to #ScienceFiction in #India. Link: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620562…
@mitpress @co_futures @gautambhatia88
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New paper from the lab on the mathematical brain :
Using NeuroSpin's 7T fMRI during a number comparison task, Daniela Valerio uncovered a cortical map for numbers which, in educated adults, integrates small integers (0-5) and simple fractions (e.g. 3/2).
@cdf1530 @NeuroSpin_91
"An ode to the remarkable ‘plasticity’ or adaptability of the brain and body during and after pregnancy."
@liisagalea reviews "A Mother's Brain" for @Nature:
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
"We don’t like disorder and chaos. The philosopher David Hume said, 'Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye.' On the whole, we try to avoid situations where we’re confronted with things we can’t make sense of." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/b…
A great companion read: "The Machine and the Microchip" (out in January) takes readers inside ASML, a little-known Dutch company at one of the world’s most consequential technological chokepoints: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620641…
They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
"Creating a safe environment is as important as landing a trick."
An excerpt from "True World Skate" highlights Dencity, a Nigerian women's skate crew. pghrev.com/starting-a-skate-…
"Beauty is more than just a cognitive event in our minds. Beauty moves us in ways which seem to imply there’s something more to it."
Nicholas Humphrey discussed his new book, "Why Is the World So Beautiful?," with @NautilusMag: nautil.us/what-makes-life-be…
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nicolás von Ellenrieder, Boris C. Bernhardt, et al:
The electro-MICA toolbox for integrating electrophysiology within multimodal imaging and connectomics workflows
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1413
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If you missed Fran Berman discussing her book, BETTER TECH: Putting People First in Cyberspace, with @WAMCRadio's @JoeCDonahue at @ualbany's @nyswi, you can watch it here: bit.ly/4zOJXt9 @mitpress
New and #OpenAccess: "[Machine Voices] is a wide-ranging tour of the machinic voicescape, and Edward Kang is an expert guide, taking us behind the facades of computers that listen and unsettling what ‘listening’ and ‘talking’ even mean." — @npseaver
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ALT Book cover titled "Machine Voices: A Sonic Study of Artificial Intelligence" by Edward B. Kang. 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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"He occupied a strange role in the history of mathematics, not really a scientist, yet considered an unheralded genius by a number of influential figures in the field."
Read about International Freak via The MIT Press Reader.
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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…
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.”
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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
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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.
"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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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
