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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a third-year PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Identifying the human impacts of climate change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
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LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
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Low Cost Soil Carbon Sensing

Regenerative agriculture, or “carbon farming,” is the use of agricultural practices and crops that draw down excess atmospheric carbon th...
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Low-power wireless environmental sensor network

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...
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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

We already have all the tools we need to fix climate change. We just need to use them.
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WIRED25: Stories of people who are racing to save us

Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them—and trying to avoid the unintended consequences.
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City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...
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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...
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This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
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The data is in. Frogs don’t boil. But we might.

The metaphor of the frog in water that is heated slowly has long been used to describe the potential risk of climate change.
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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
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Fake meat, served six ways

We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.
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Climate change has an unexpected impact on mental health

Global climate change is projected to change our planet this century and beyond.
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Earthrise, 50 years later

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative
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As global temperatures rise, so will mental health issues, study says

Small rises in temperature and dramatic weather events resulting from warming can affect mental health.
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Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change

Obradovich, N., Migliorini, R., Paulus, M. P., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801528115
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We should be worried about the impacts of climate change on mental health

Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
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Surprising climate change effects: more fatal crashes, less food safety

Add deadly car crashes and food safety risks — and the officials overseeing them — to the list of things affected by climate change.
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Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance

Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance, Nick Obradovich, Dustin Tingley, Iyad Rahwan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, 201803765; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803765115
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Unexpected effects of climate change: worse food safety, more car wrecks

On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government foo...
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Global Warming? Tell it to the Judge

First, climate change was blamed for coastal flooding and wildfires. The links seemed intuitive and the effects observable. But more...
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Exploring the effects of environmental stressors on daily governance

If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
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It's not just you: Dark clouds are linked with darker moods

Weather really can affect our mood—or at least the way we express our emotions on social media, according to a study published Wednesday ...