Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events
About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took
Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where things as seemingly objective as motion or time are influenced by how one observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20,000