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• A History of MIT Pranks, In Glorious Pictures...

  What can we say, we're a sucker for pranks, practical jokes, and general harmless merriment. It's the only reason we would have considered going to a school like MIT (not that we would've gotten in or even wanted to.) You know, to carry out that fantasy of college life we first saw in Real Genius... the smart asses venting their energy not by farting and chanting "USA! USA!" at frat parties but by disassembling the dean's car and reassembling it in the Yukon Territories... Read More... Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:12 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: star wars, cars, pictures, funny, college, joke, pranks, MIT, photo essay, massachusetts, student

• Do Ten Shots Every Time Biden Mentions Indians And 7-11

  We know the debate is tomorrow, but we wanted to tell you about MIT's hilarious drinking game (this one, unlike the previous incarnation, is actually doable) so you can stock up now on select booze... or Slurpee's... which is, of course, bigot Biden's favorite beverage... Read More... Posted Oct 01 2008, 03:51 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: India, drinking, vice president, bigotry, debate, MIT, joe biden, racial profiling, massachusetts, slurpee, 7-11, sarah palin, drinking games, indian

• MIT Develops Microchips Powered By 1982 Film Featuring A Mustachioed William Hurt

  Oh, hold up; maybe we misunderstood this article the first time around... [W]hat if microchips were just a little bit more efficient? That’s what a team of engineers at MIT was thinking when they set out to redesign the microchip to make it even more efficient. The result is a microchip with a power consumption that is so low it can be recharged by your very own body heat. Imagine the possibilities of bodyheat powered microchips: pacemakers could be powered by the body’s warmth, mobile phones by just moving them, and remote sensors could get energy just by the ambient energy around them.   So basically if you been thinking about picking up an expensive vibrator in the next few months: don't. Posted Apr 02 2008, 11:04 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: science, vibrators, batteries, MIT, microchips, progress