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Novartis has leased the above four pink lots from MIT for at least sixty years; they are just across the street from Novartis’ existing sites at 186, 220, and 250 Massachusetts Avenue.

David M. Templeton, OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA

Rock Band 3, which will be released on October 26 in North America, features a new keytar and a more realistic guitar for the game’s “Pro Mode.”

Courtesy of Harmonix Music Systems

Professor Susan Lindquist of the Whitehead Institute was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Obama on Friday. Lindquist is one of six MIT faculty members to have received this honor.

Courtesy of the Whitehead Institute

Benoit Mandelbrot, best known for his work with fractals, died last Thursday at the age of 85.

Courtesy of Yale Mathematics Department

Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg and Patrick Maple gaze into the future of everyone’s social lives.

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Keir Gilchrist and Zach Galifianakis reflect on their mental problems.

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Feng Wu—The Tech File PhotoInstitute Professor Peter A. Diamond PhD ‘63 won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics yesterday, for his work on modeling the friction in markets. Diamond shares the prize with two co-winners, Dale T. Mortensen and

ON THE CROWDED SHOW FLOOR, LARGE DISPLAYS ARE KEY TO ATTRACTING THE ATTENTION OF PASSERSBY.