PodSpec » MIT http://podspec.com Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 MIT 2014 http://podspec.com/2010/04/01/mit-2014-admission-decisions/ http://podspec.com/2010/04/01/mit-2014-admission-decisions/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:13:00 +0000 cs http://podspec.com/?p=284 As MIT students celebrated π day this Sunday, 10,948 high school seniors waited nervously by their computers for the Class of 2014 admissions decisions. Only 1,021, or 9.3 percent, of those students received offers of admissions. Including the early action admissions round on December 16, the overall acceptance rate for this year’s admissions cycle is 9.7 [...]]]> http://podspec.com/2010/04/01/mit-2014-admission-decisions/feed/ 0 Wireless Electricity http://podspec.com/2009/12/18/electricity-without-wires/ http://podspec.com/2009/12/18/electricity-without-wires/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:27:24 +0000 cs http://podspec.com/?p=263 Marin Soljacic couldn’t sleep. The problem was his wife’s Nokia cell phone. The tyrannical device beeped on the bedside table when it needed to be plugged in. It could not be disabled.

Instead of taking a hammer to the phone, Soljacic marveled at the fact that this device, and billions of others like it, was sitting [...]]]> http://podspec.com/2009/12/18/electricity-without-wires/feed/ 0