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The Oscar for best actress goes to Jennifer Lawrence, for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.

This graphic was presented last March, as part of a contract update, showing one of the proposed layouts of the outbound side of Longfellow Bridge. During construction, half of the bridge will be closed at a time, and...

Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, Alexandre Desplat, Ben Affleck, Grant Heslov, and George Clooney accept the Oscar for Argo.

Ten members of The Tech’s Arts Department attempted to predict the Academy Awards, à la Nate Silver. We weren’t quite on target.

Atomic Bean Café is the perfect place to wind down. It’s great for its chill music, free Wi-Fi, and delicious Vietnamese coffee and specialty kale pastries.

The event was held in the Bartos Theater in the basement of E15 (the Weisner Building/old Media Lab). The auditorium’s near-200 person capacity was exceeded before the event began; some audience members were left stan...

Audience members had a chance to ask Silver questions during the second half of the event. Question topics ranged from digital journalism to the future of Silver’s career. When asked about would happen when other medi...

Nate Silver signed copies of his New York Times bestselling book The Signal and the Noise for audience members following his talk. Many audience members brought their own copies, but the book was also offered for sale...

MIT followed the national trend in declining alumni giving from 2011 to 2012. Capped donations do not count contributions past $100,000. Uncapped donations for 2011 and 2012 are not yet reliably available, as those in...

The percentage of undergraduate alumni donors to the MIT Annual Fund has decreased slightly in recent years, while since 2010, the percentage of exclusively graduate alumni donors has remained relatively stable.

This spring, a 30-pound hand-carved pink granite sculpture has come to MIT. The nomadic piece changes title according to its location, and is currently titled “I am Mit, as I am in Mit, just like a lot of other people...

MIT’s Alexander C. Klein ’15 prepares for a spike against Springfield College’s Greg Falcone. MIT was tied against the first ranked Springfield, but eventually lost in the fifth set at a close 12-15.

Journalist, writer, and MIT CMS associate professor Seth Mnookin moderated the Nate Silver talk, hosted by the MIT Communications Forum. Mnookin spent the first half of the two hour talk interviewing Silver and the re...

Statistician and political blogger Nate Silver appeared last night before a packed auditorium to talk about the role of statistics in elections and politics, as well as his own career. Silver’s fame skyrocketed late l...

Much of the talk focused on the development on FiveThirtyEight, its beginnings at the New York Times, and Silver’s thoughts on its future. In 2007, Silver felt that politics was still “stuck in the stone age and not...