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I Am Iron Man (Sorta)

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MIT’s most famous fictional alum, Tony Stark, has some real-life rivals ... Princeton, you can keep your Batman. (Frankly, his costume could use a little work, anyway.) ... Review: Iron Man 2. By Peter Keough ... Princeton, you can keep your Batman. (Frankly, his costume could use a little work, anyway.) What better location for a nerd-with-secretly-awesome-powers to begin working on a superhero suit that trumps even Bruce Wayne’s handiwork than Cambridge, at the Massachusetts Institute

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Meme police

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Published May 5, 2010 at 2:34 p.m.

MIT’s ROFLcon, a gathering of the Web’s biggest names, decides what will make you laugh and cry ... I just woke up from some sort of bizarre dream. I was at MIT. There was a weirdo painting nudes of President Obama on a unicorn. Several adults were dressed like domestic animals ... PLAY IT AGAIN: Internet tastemakers like Keyboard Cat’s Brad O’Farrell are subverting popular culture while influencing its future ... I just woke up from some sort of bizarre dream. I was at MIT. There was a

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Photos: N.E.R.D. and Super Mash Bros at MIT

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Published April 28, 2010 at 10:37 a.m.

Spring Concert featuring N.E.R.D. with openers Super Mash Bros at MIT April 23, 2010 ... Spring Concert featuring N.E.R.D. with special guest Super Mash Bros at MIT April 23, 2010 ... Photo: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN ... Super Mash Bros MIT's Johnson Athletic Center April 23, 2010 ... Read more ...

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Ledge Lessons

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Published April 28, 2010 at 4:51 p.m.

We love you, stressed-out college kids! So relax, and remember how good you have it ... As advocates of higher education and living as long as medically possible, we were sad to read that, according to new-media-powerhouse Web site the Daily Beast, Greater Boston is home to not one but five of the most stressful colleges in the United States ... As advocates of higher education and living as long as medically possible, we were sad to read that, according to new-media-powerhouse Web site the

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Flickers

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Published Feb. 9, 2010 at 2:53 p.m.

'11+1' at Outpost 186 ... The hour's worth of film and dance that followed my absurdist journey offered flashbacks, edges, mysterious messages, and a thunderstorm. In 1924, Tristan Tzara described Dada as a resistance to the pretensions of art, "a snow of butterflies released from the head of a prestidigitator." I left Inman Square feeling energized ... MARJORIE MORGAN: Wriggling out of a dress in "Slough" (top), inching up over a windowsill in "Ascent" (bottom) ... Lost on the way to "11+1" —

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Tilting at Windows

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Published Dec. 18, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.

Software 'Saint' Richard Stallman fights for computing freedom — and against corporate control ... Stallman — a legend in the programmer community for more than a quarter century — considers it his life's work to proselytize the free-software gospel, educating the lay people who'd otherwise assume that Microsoft or Apple are exclusively synonymous with computing ... The GNU and you. By Jeff Inglis ... Twenty minutes into our interview, at the Downtown Crossing headquarters of the Free

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Wild about Harry

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Published Dec. 9, 2009 at 4:54 p.m.

Trailblazing along a narrow path ... What I want to do — what most photographers want to do — is write Harry Callahan a love letter. At the very least, he deserves an elaborate thank-you note for innovating or validating 80 percent of the successful photographs we ever took ... ELEANOR (circa 1947) Vastly influential, Callahan expanded the art world's very definition of photography ... What I want to do — what most photographers want to do — is write Harry Callahan a love letter. At the

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Blessings: mixed and otherwise

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Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 2:29 p.m.

Boston Baroque’s Amadigi; Opera Boston’s Tancredi; the BSO’s Beethoven; the Borromeo’s Bartók; Brahms from BCMS and BSOCP ... By odd coincidence, in recent weeks we’ve had performances of two important operatic rarities, landmark early works a century apart: 30-year-old Handel’s Amadigi (1715) and 20-year-old Rossini’s Tancredi (1813, his 10th opera!) ... TANCREDI It was Polish coloratura Ewa Podles (center) and Boston soprano Amanda Forsythe (right) who ignited this Rossini

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Architecture of Heaven and Earth

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Published Sept. 2, 2009 at 9:32 a.m.

Félix Candela's curves, Walter Gropius's boxes ... Looking at the wavy roofs of Félix Candela's most iconic structures, like the restaurant Los Manatiales (1958) in Mexico City, I think of pinwheels or the fluttering dress of a spinning dancer ... SUBLIME: A series of concrete umbrellas tipped on their sides form the soaring nave of Candela’s Iglesia de la Medalla Milagrosa in Mexico City ... “Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist” ... MIT Museum, 265 Mass Ave, Cambridge

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The Gates case isn't about race

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Published Aug. 5, 2009 at 4:54 p.m.

Doesn't Matter If You're Black or White Dept ... The weeks-long hubbub over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department has centered on race, understandably, for two reasons: 1) the African-American population has suffered inequitably in its relations with law enforcement across this country, and 2) a race story is easier for the media to tell — and to sell ... The weeks-long hubbub over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip"

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