{"id":183,"date":"2007-09-19T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/boston-and-mit\/"},"modified":"2015-09-27T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:45:01","slug":"boston-and-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/boston-and-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston and MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2203\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2203.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Two stops down from Harvard Square on the <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/mbta-map.gif\">Red Line<\/a> is Kendall Square, around which can be found MIT. MIT wasn't born here - it was originally founded in Boston in 1865, across the river from Cambridge (if you remember my <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/boston-and-harvard-university\/\">little geography lesson<\/a>) and originally known as Boston Tech. It moved to its current location in 1916, and as far as I know, has settled down and is planning to retire in its current location.<\/p>\n<p>MIT is famous for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>its Infinite Corridor, which <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2205\">defies photography<\/a> with its infinite-ness<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2206\">Great Dome<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hacks, pranks pulled by students, including assembling a <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2215\">replica police car<\/a> on top of the Great Dome<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2217\">Stata Center (interior)<\/a>, which is crazy madness<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_stallman\">Richard Stallman<\/a>, who was not mentioned on the tour or openly celebrated anywhere we were<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Direct link to file\" href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/180px-wfm_stata_center.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Stata Center - stolen from Wikipedia. Didn\" src=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/180px-wfm_stata_center.jpg\" alt=\"Stata Center - stolen from Wikipedia. Didn\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>This little baby is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stata_Center\">Stata Center<\/a>. It was designed by Frank Gehry, famous for the <a title=\"Guggenheim Museum Bilbao\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao\">Guggenheim in Bilbao,<\/a> who appears to be afraid of 90 degree angles. It's named for some rich dude who went to MIT and donated the money for its construction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2365\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No, Furby! Bad Furby!\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2365.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"No, Furby! Bad Furby!\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Down the road a little is the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/museum\/\">MIT Museum<\/a>. They're renovating this at the moment, which is good, because it's pretty well hidden where it is. It's also a little out of date - for an institute who is leading the world with research, they look like they don't really want to give the museum their hand-me-downs for 10 years. This is Kismet. I think he mates with gerbil to produce Furbies.<\/p>\n<p>They have some really cool <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/bos2007-mit\/IMG_2368\">holograms<\/a> (although <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jem_and_the_Holograms\">Jem<\/a> was nowhere to be seen).<\/p>\n<p>One of the coolest things at the museum is the artwork by one-time Artist in Residence, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Ganson\">Arthur Ganson<\/a>. He builds Rube Goldberg-esque kinetic sculptures that exist to do not very much at all. I like this one in particular.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUxMhK3NtNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/crb0r\">my other videos<\/a> for a few more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stops down from Harvard Square on the Red Line is Kendall Square, around which can be found MIT. MIT wasn't born here - it was originally founded in Boston in 1865, across the river from Cambridge (if you remember my little geography lesson) and originally known as Boston Tech. It moved to its current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}