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"It seems like every few years, you could write a whole new book on gravity."
James Riordon, author of "Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity," recommends his favorite books on this peculiar force—from the equations needed to understand it, to a funny book about what it's like to live without it:
James Riordon, author of "Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity," recommends his favorite books on this peculiar force—from the equations needed to understand it, to a funny book about what it's like to live without it:
Gravity
Since the 17th century, we've been aware that the force that causes apples to fall from a tree is the same force that holds the planets in the sky, but we still don't know everything there is to know…
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January 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM
"It seems like every few years, you could write a whole new book on gravity."
James Riordon, author of "Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity," recommends his favorite books on this peculiar force—from the equations needed to understand it, to a funny book about what it's like to live without it:
James Riordon, author of "Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity," recommends his favorite books on this peculiar force—from the equations needed to understand it, to a funny book about what it's like to live without it:
In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker traces the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.
Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker traces the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.
Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
What should space tourists expect to happen to them during a journey to an orbiting space station, the Moon, or Mars? In "Becoming Martian," out Feb. 17th, @scottsolomon.bsky.social explores how humanity’s migration into space will change our bodies and our minds: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151...
January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
What should space tourists expect to happen to them during a journey to an orbiting space station, the Moon, or Mars? In "Becoming Martian," out Feb. 17th, @scottsolomon.bsky.social explores how humanity’s migration into space will change our bodies and our minds: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151...
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I have been peddling my book a lot, but now its available Open Access, in case you wanted to see what my fussing was about but didn't have the budget!
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Thresholds of Digital Gameplay
How the often-overlooked interfaces, interactions, and inequities on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize.Contemporary digital
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January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I have been peddling my book a lot, but now its available Open Access, in case you wanted to see what my fussing was about but didn't have the budget!
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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As the guy who wrote the chapter on how the Virtual Boy display works in our Seeing Red book, I gotta say that is an excellent, highly-accurate video demonstration of the techniques in slow motion! @jzagal.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M...
Nintendo Virtual Boy at 1 Million Frames per second - The Slow Mo Guys
YouTube video by The Slow Mo Guys
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January 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
As the guy who wrote the chapter on how the Virtual Boy display works in our Seeing Red book, I gotta say that is an excellent, highly-accurate video demonstration of the techniques in slow motion! @jzagal.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M...
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Carlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321...
In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321...
In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...
Episodes in the Life of Bounce | Carlin Wing
Playing with a rubber ball
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January 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Carlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321...
In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321...
In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...
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Great news! "Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail" is now #OpenAccess so that everyone can read it online. Thanks to generous support from @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open (D20). @managingtheatom.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Check it out here:
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Great news! "Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail" is now #OpenAccess so that everyone can read it online. Thanks to generous support from @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open (D20). @managingtheatom.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Check it out here:
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Great news! "Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail" is now #OpenAccess so that everyone can read it online. Thanks to generous support from @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open (D20). @managingtheatom.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Check it out here:
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Great news! "Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail" is now #OpenAccess so that everyone can read it online. Thanks to generous support from @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open (D20). @managingtheatom.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Check it out here:
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Essential reading on how the brain makes language possible, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social's "Wired for Words" provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research to build a new understanding of the neural architecture of the brain’s language system: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Essential reading on how the brain makes language possible, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social's "Wired for Words" provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research to build a new understanding of the neural architecture of the brain’s language system: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
Announcing the shortlists for the second annual MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Awards! This year’s shortlisted titles exemplify the intellectual ambition, creativity, and impact that define the MIT community.
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Announcing the shortlists for the second annual MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Awards! This year’s shortlisted titles exemplify the intellectual ambition, creativity, and impact that define the MIT community.
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
Winners will be announced in April 9th: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres....
Colombo looks idyllic — but living there means unrelenting heat. “To walk or cycle anywhere in Colombo… is to slowly succumb to a wet, sickly heat,” writes Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. His solution: redesign cities for comfort, not growth. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-city-cast-...
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Colombo looks idyllic — but living there means unrelenting heat. “To walk or cycle anywhere in Colombo… is to slowly succumb to a wet, sickly heat,” writes Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. His solution: redesign cities for comfort, not growth. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-city-cast-...
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New review of Becoming Martian just dropped! 👀
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman @dreochapman.bsky.social says "Solomon’s writing is concise yet extraordinarily thorough..." and "Becoming Martian is one of the best popular-science books I have read within the field..."
physicsworld.com/a/mission-to...
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman @dreochapman.bsky.social says "Solomon’s writing is concise yet extraordinarily thorough..." and "Becoming Martian is one of the best popular-science books I have read within the field..."
physicsworld.com/a/mission-to...
Mission to Mars: from biological barriers to ethical impediments – Physics World
Emma Chapman reviews Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds by Scott Solomon
physicsworld.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
New review of Becoming Martian just dropped! 👀
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman @dreochapman.bsky.social says "Solomon’s writing is concise yet extraordinarily thorough..." and "Becoming Martian is one of the best popular-science books I have read within the field..."
physicsworld.com/a/mission-to...
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman @dreochapman.bsky.social says "Solomon’s writing is concise yet extraordinarily thorough..." and "Becoming Martian is one of the best popular-science books I have read within the field..."
physicsworld.com/a/mission-to...
New and #OpenAccess in the January issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling? by @lorenzo-ciccione.bsky.social and Stanislas Dehaene: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... @jocn.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social
The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?
Abstract. Graphical representations of quantitative data abound in our culture, and yet the brain mechanisms of graphicacy, by which viewers quickly extract statistical information from a data…
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January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
New and #OpenAccess in the January issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling? by @lorenzo-ciccione.bsky.social and Stanislas Dehaene: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... @jocn.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social
Join authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on Saturday, January 24th for a virtual discussion about their book "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Link for details: citylights.com/events/rewir... @eff.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Join authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on Saturday, January 24th for a virtual discussion about their book "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Link for details: citylights.com/events/rewir... @eff.org
We can’t afford to delay climate action. In "Clearing the Air," data scientist and bestselling author @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers 50 key climate questions once and for all, getting the facts straight so we can take action and fix things. Out February 17th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205274...
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
We can’t afford to delay climate action. In "Clearing the Air," data scientist and bestselling author @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers 50 key climate questions once and for all, getting the facts straight so we can take action and fix things. Out February 17th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205274...
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A serious honor to join the @casbsstanford.bsky.social podcast with @dryan149.bsky.social. Thanks a million to Damon Centola for asking great questions and to Mike Gaetani for setting it up. @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
Your Field Guide for Creating Social Change
Timely! @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social (CASBS fellow 2019-20) & @dryan149.bsky.social (2018-19) discuss their book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Create Social Change" w/Damon Centola (2014-15)
🎧 bit.ly/459VSVL
January 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A serious honor to join the @casbsstanford.bsky.social podcast with @dryan149.bsky.social. Thanks a million to Damon Centola for asking great questions and to Mike Gaetani for setting it up. @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Today is publication release date for "Robophilosophy" edited by Johanna Seibt, @raulhakli.bsky.social and Marco Nørskov. My contribution (chapter one) is titled "The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others." @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Today is publication release date for "Robophilosophy" edited by Johanna Seibt, @raulhakli.bsky.social and Marco Nørskov. My contribution (chapter one) is titled "The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others." @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
"Aymar Jèan Escoffery is one of the most important thinkers and creators of our time. [Reparative Media] is the roadmap we need to repair from the deep divisions the internet has created among us." — @safiyanoble.bsky.social
Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
January 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
"Aymar Jèan Escoffery is one of the most important thinkers and creators of our time. [Reparative Media] is the roadmap we need to repair from the deep divisions the internet has created among us." — @safiyanoble.bsky.social
Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Inflation wasn’t top of mind for most Americans — until the pandemic sent prices soaring. Eggs, gas, flights: everything now costs more. Economist @marthaolney.bsky.social explains what’s driving inflation, the Fed’s role, and what comes next:
What Broke the Age of Cheap Prices?
An award-winning Berkeley economist explains what drives inflation, how the Fed fights it, and what Donald Trump’s dizzying tariff policies might mean for our wallets.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
January 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Inflation wasn’t top of mind for most Americans — until the pandemic sent prices soaring. Eggs, gas, flights: everything now costs more. Economist @marthaolney.bsky.social explains what’s driving inflation, the Fed’s role, and what comes next:
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
In "Expecting Inequity," Khiara M. Bridges draws an unsparing picture of racial disparities in reproductive healthcare in the US. persist across income levels. Coming March 31st: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205155...
January 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
In "Expecting Inequity," Khiara M. Bridges draws an unsparing picture of racial disparities in reproductive healthcare in the US. persist across income levels. Coming March 31st: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205155...
Technopaganism, simulation hypothesis, reality shifting: the internet is full of “weird shit." @shirachess.bsky.social teases out these weird, historical, and uncanny aspects of our online existence on The Unseen Internet (and has a great book of the same name coming out Feb. 10th):
The Unseen Internet 💫 | Shira Chess | Substack
Looking at technological woo past, present, and future. Click to read The Unseen Internet 💫, by Shira Chess, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
unseeninternet.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Technopaganism, simulation hypothesis, reality shifting: the internet is full of “weird shit." @shirachess.bsky.social teases out these weird, historical, and uncanny aspects of our online existence on The Unseen Internet (and has a great book of the same name coming out Feb. 10th):
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Nominate the coolest DH projects you know!
I've recommended www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com by @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and others
I've recommended www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com by @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and others
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Nominate the coolest DH projects you know!
I've recommended www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com by @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and others
I've recommended www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com by @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and others
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Check it out! And then you can order your copy of my book Inflation from @mitpress.bsky.social Thanks, Jon Skolnik, for the interview!
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-broke-t...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-broke-t...
What Broke the Age of Cheap Prices?
An award-winning Berkeley economist explains what drives inflation, how the Fed fights it, and what Donald Trump’s dizzying tariff policies might mean for our wallets.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
January 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Check it out! And then you can order your copy of my book Inflation from @mitpress.bsky.social Thanks, Jon Skolnik, for the interview!
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-broke-t...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-broke-t...
Writing for NYT, Margaret Roach looks at changing landscapes & weather patterns with new eyes, referring to "Phenology" author Theresa Crimmins' advice to "weave a practice of observing seasonal cycles of plants and animals into your life to contribute to science as well as soothe your soul":
New Rules for the New Year
Perhaps the best way to confront the swiftly changing landscape is to swallow hard, and then move forward with a fresh approach.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Writing for NYT, Margaret Roach looks at changing landscapes & weather patterns with new eyes, referring to "Phenology" author Theresa Crimmins' advice to "weave a practice of observing seasonal cycles of plants and animals into your life to contribute to science as well as soothe your soul":