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How to follow Santa Claus this Christmas Eve with NORAD's 2024 tracker - Space.com

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  1. How to follow Santa Claus this Christmas Eve with NORAD's 2024 tracker  Space.com
  2. How NORAD tracks Santa  Axios
  3. Where is Santa right now? Use the NORAD tracker to map his 2024 Christmas flight  CBS News
  4. Watch Santa Claus travel to Wisconsin on Christmas 2024  Yahoo Life
  5. NORAD Santa tracker: How Saint Nick's journey is offered in different languages  USA TODAY

Mars’s ancient atmosphere might be locked in clay

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Despite increasing evidence that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, scientists have been mystified by what happened to the thick, carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere that must have once kept that water from freezing.  Now two MIT geologists think they know. Geology professor Oliver Jagoutz and Joshua Murray, PhD ’24, propose that much of this…

Solar-powered desalination

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Brackish groundwater is a major potential source of drinking water in underserved areas of the world, but desalinating it affordably is a challenge. A new system developed by mechanical engineering professor Amos Winter, Jon Bessette, SM ’22, and staff engineer Shane Pratt manages to do the job entirely on solar energy, with no need for…

Four 2024 Nobel winners have MIT ties

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Two MIT professors, an alumnus, and a former postdoc are among the winners of 2024’s Nobel Prizes. Professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, PhD ’89, shared the prize in economics with political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago, with whom they have long collaborated. Using evidence from the last 500 years, their work…

How to build (and rebuild) with glass

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What if construction materials could be put together, taken apart, and reused as easily as Lego bricks? That’s the vision a team of MIT engineers hopes to realize with a new kind of masonry it’s developing from recycled glass. Using a custom 3D-printing technology provided by the MIT spinoff Evenline, the team has made strong,…

MIT’s (mostly) secret society

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“We meet in the name of Osiris.”  With these words, solemnly intoned, members of the MIT Osiris Society began their clandestine meetings for nearly 70 years. Created in 1903 as a “senior society” and modeled on both the fraternities of Cornell and the mythology of ancient Egypt, Osiris gave MIT’s senior leadership an opportunity to…

Smudge before flight

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“I’m moving to Boston in three weeks!” At my high school graduation, I had just learned I’d been accepted into the Interphase EDGE program, an incredible opportunity to acclimate to life at MIT before the 2022 school year began. I was glad to have that chance, since I faced a big change from life at…

Tapping the wisdom of human-centered fields

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When I last wrote to you in this magazine, I told you a bit about the MIT Collaboratives, an effort to spark new ideas and modes of inquiry and help the people of MIT solve global problems. Since then, we’ve launched the first collaborative, grounding it in the human-centered fields represented by our School of…

The cult of tech

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“THE CULT OF THE FOUNDER.” “THE CULT OF THE TECH GENIUS.”  “Beware: Silicon Valley’s cultists want to turn you into a disruptive deviant.” “Tech’s cult of the founder bounces back.” “Silicon Valley’s Strange, Apocalyptic Cults.” “How the cult of personality and tech-bro culture is killing technology.” “Company or cult?” “Is your corporate culture cultish?” “The…

More puzzles, less sleep

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We need a strategy to deal with a hydra.  It’s Sunday, January 14, 2024, more than 50 hours since the annual MIT Mystery Hunt kicked off at noon on Friday, and Setec Astronomy is one of more than 200 teams racing to solve hundreds of puzzles over three days. The 60-some members of Setec, many…

Forging the digital future

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Dan Huttenlocher, SM ’84, PhD ’88, leads the way up to the eighth floor of Building 45, the recently completed headquarters of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. “There’s an amazing view of the Great Dome here,” he says, pointing out a panoramic view of campus and the Boston skyline beyond. The floor features a…

Curbing drinking during the holiday season

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DEAR DOCTORS: I just turned 36, and I'm feeling the effects of drinking more than I used to. My boyfriend and I both have big families, so during this time of year, we have wall-to-wall holiday parties. Last year we did dry January, but this year we want to try a dry-ish December. How do you do that but still have some fun?

K-pop's rollercoaster year

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The biggest news in the K-pop industry in 2024 was the conflict between Min Hee-jin, the former CEO of Ador, and Hybe executives. Min was credited for creating visual branding for SM Entertainment's renowned groups such as Exo, Shinee and Girls' Generation. She is also renowned as a former executive producer behind the success of NewJeans, who stood out for their girl next door image and retro...

Artist explores the human cost of conservation

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Art viewers are invited to ponder on the delicate balance between environmental conservation and the preservation of local livelihoods in the region at "Net Loss", which is running at SAC Gallery until Jan 11.

Isan heritage takes centre stage in Khon Kaen

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Two of Isan's rich cultural heritages will be core elements of "Plara Morlam Isan To The World '24", which will be running primarily at Khon Kaen Innovation Center (or Kaen Building) and other venues across Khon Kaen province, from Dec 26 to 29.

A celebration of resilience and optimism

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If you're looking for an inspiration for a brighter future, stop by "Movement", an exhibition that encourages everyone to face each new day with optimism. It is running at RCB Galleria 4 of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, until Jan 26.