“I wanted to work on something that didn’t exist”
by MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review— In 2017 Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, was invited to a conference in the Netherlands to give a talk about magnetic technologies that she and her team had developed at MIT and how they might be used for deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s disease. After sitting through a long day of lectures, she was struck…
The Guardian—‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage. An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers – now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestsellerMolly Roden Winter wasn’t planning an extramarital affair. Certainly not a string of sexual encounters with multiple partners, each liaison now intricately catalogued in the public domain. When she stormed out of her Brooklyn home one evening in 2008 – kids crashed out upstairs, husband barely through the front door – it was space,...
Washington Post—Suns are swept out of the NBA playoffs, and the Bradley Beal trade didn’t work. Phoenix went all in last summer when it acquired Bradley Beal in a trade with the Wizards. After the Suns were swept out of the NBA playoffs, it’s clear the gambit didn’t work.
TheJournal.ie—Annie Mac turned down MBE because she didn’t ‘want to be associated with the British Empire’. However, she added that if the language around the invitation was changed, she’d be ‘happy to receive it’.