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Situation for Noon Eastern Time, Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Professor Smith (Zachary Abbott) stares down a grad student in the PhD movie.

Robert J. Silbey talks at MacVicar Day in 2005.

Arthur Ganson’s “Margot’s Other Cat” adds a touch of humor to Gestural Engineering, on view at the MIT Museum.

The $1K house prototype in Sichuan, China, actually ended up costing $6K, but the building was 30 percent bigger than originally planned.

Yung Ho Chang and Ying chee Chui designed a $1K house prototype based on a single module with branching rectangular rooms.

Detail of the coupled gear systems in “Machine with 11 Scraps of Paper” from Arthur Ganson’s Gestural Engineering exhibit.

Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Sander (Ulrich Thomsen) examine a mysterious something in “The Thing.”