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Cannabis Through the Ages The drug’s history of healing and experimentation stretches from ancient China to American counterculture — yet its promise remains trapped in a legal straitjacket.

"CBD was approved for the treatment of childhood epilepsy by the FDA in the United States in 2020, yet it was shown in early clinical trials to be effective in treating epilepsy as early as 1978. Why has it taken so long to determine how this drug produces its effects?"

What Just Happened?! A year ago, America had a functioning vaccine system. Here's what we've lost—and what's at stake

A year ago, America had a functioning vaccine system. And then, in the span of just 12 months, nearly all of this system has been disrupted or dismantled.

The scale of these changes will reverberate for years to come. Here's a rundown:

Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: Review of Joe P.L. Davidson’s Saving Utopia Chandra K. Clarke Under Review:Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times. Joe P.L. Davidson. MIT Press, March 2026. Like many people, I came to SF fandom by way of Star Trek. As a…

Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: @chandraclarke.bsky.social reviews Joe P.L. Davidson's SAVING UTOPIA (@mitpress.bsky.social)

Reactionary Worldbuilding Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “norm...

The essay is also going to be reprinted in an edited collection with @mitpress.bsky.social, Reactionary Worldbuilding - out in May 2026! Edited by Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and @jordanscarroll.bsky.social.
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"This is a work that we need professional politicians, regardless of their country, to think about and internalise." — @financialtimes.com

In "Separation of Powers," Cass Sunstein explains a balancing act that has puzzled the greatest adepts in political science: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205177...

"What we worried about in the 1990s, and fought to prevent in the 2000s and 2010s, seems closer than ever: that surveillance becomes the handmaiden of authoritarianism."

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We love π! Starting today, folks can join us in celebrating with a special sale through the MIT Press Bookstore. Get 30% off mathematical puzzle books and our best physics books (in-store and online) with code PIDAY: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/piday

Cannabis Through the Ages The drug’s history of healing and experimentation stretches from ancient China to American counterculture — yet its promise remains trapped in a legal straitjacket.

Weed is older than you think. Cannabis was used medicinally 10,000 years ago in Asia. But due to a legal crackdown, research slowed. We’ve “merely scratched the surface of this drug’s potential for harm and good,” says Linda Parker:

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The MIT Press Bookstore celebrates its 45th anniversary this year! 📚

Today, during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge, 100 donations of any size will unlock an additional $10K from a generous alumnus to support the bookstore’s programs, events, and community engagement. Thanks for considering!

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War Begets War Triumph breeds hubris. Defeat breeds grievance. Either way, from World War II to Afghanistan, America has fueled a cycle that never ends.

"Humiliation is an ever-potential source of violence."

Island Tinkerers: How Taiwan Became the World’s Tech Powerhouse | Honghong Tinn YouTube video by Stanford APARC

WATCH | @honghongtinn.bsky.social discusses her @mitpress.bsky.social book, Island Tinkerers, which chronicles Taiwan's transformation into a tech powerhouse by exploring Taiwanese technologists’ ideas and experiences tinkering with and manufacturing computing technology. youtu.be/lu7jwmQQ7go

The Experience of Deciding: An Electroencephalography Study Abstract. How free our actions are and how responsible we are for them partly depends on how well we are aware of what influences those actions. One way to investigate this is to compare what we are…

New and #OpenAccess in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, March issue: The Experience of Deciding: An Electroencephalography Study direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... @jocn.bsky.social

Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers Abstract. Right-wing populist leaders often seem to love soldiers (especially fallen ones) and the trappings of military life. But their love affair with the military rarely endures. This article expl...

2) Articles from the issue include:

“Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers,” by Ronald R. Krebs

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I'm super excited to be hosting Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social this month at the New School. Thurs March 26th at 6pm.

Mother Media: Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium.

The event is free & open to the public. 6 E. 16th St @thenewschool.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

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Fanbase Press Interviews Barbara Perez Marquez on the Upcoming Release of the Young Adult Graphic Novel, ‘The Curie Society: Game of Code,’ Through The MIT Press - Fanbasepress The following is an interview with Barbara Perez Marquez regarding the upcoming release of the Young Adult graphic novel, The Curie Society: Game of Code,

"Knowing that any reader may catch a thread ... that could lead to a new budding interest beyond the page is an awesome reward as a writer for young readers," Barbara Perez Marquez told @fanbasepress.bsky.social in an interview on a new volume in our YA #STEM graphic novel series, The Curie Society:

Please join us in congratulating this year's winners and finalists!

The inaugural winner of the MIT Press/Candlewick Children’s Book Award is "Measuring Up" written by Jenny Lacika and illustrated by Anna Bron, which tells the story of how one MIT student’s diminutive height became his mathematical superpower—and claim to fame: www.candlewick.com/978153623012...

The inaugural winner of the MIT Press Textbook Award is "Foundations of Computer Vision" by Antonio Torralba, @phillipisola.bsky.social, and William T. Freeman: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204897...

The 2026 MIT Press Alumni Book Award winner is "Mysteries of the Deep" by James Lawrence Powell, a groundbreaking chronicle of scientific ocean drilling—a crowning achievement of the twentieth century—and how it shaped our knowledge of Earth’s past: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204892...

The 2026 MIT Press Faculty Book Award winner is "The New Lunar Society" by David A. Mindell, which explores how to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204952...

🏆️ Announcing the 2026 MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Award winners: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres...

Free and virtual and open to all! Thursday, March 26th, 5pm EDT. ☀️

I highly recommend @vthewanderer.bsky.social’s great book Zen and Slow Games, out now on @mitpress.bsky.social !

How Albert Einstein Found Faith at the Edge of Reason Though wary of organized religion, the physicist believed that the harmony of universal laws pointed to a higher power.

"I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world.”

Happy pub day, Cindy! "Privacy's Defender" is out today: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations!!!

'The Curie Society' By Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni And Janet Harvey  -- #Review, published by @mitpress.bsky.social

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