Nice NYT piece on Brooklyn Botanical Garden birdsong concert (3 stories down) tinyurl.com/ybbramhh

Workshop on Case Theory and Labeling of Structures. Saturday, Aug 4. UTokyo (Komaba). All in English. All are welcome! ecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/activity/activ…

.Shigeru Miyagawa 宮川繁 warns of the perils of not developing new technologies with a social contexts in mind #TeachingEx

Spent a day at an elementary school in the disaster-affected Fukushima. Only 1-2 students per grade, so they are connecting online with others to form a "class." Incredible learners. I was inspired. Hope to work with the schools there.

I wrote a new piece on evolution and innovation, on Medium.com. medium.com/@miyagawa_1516…

NY Times article about the oldest known narrative cave art, found in Indonesia (where the oldest such art pieces seem to be), from last week's Nature. nytimes.com/2019/12/11/sci…

Reading “Speak, Okinawa.” The author sets herself up as a metaphor for Okinawa. The writing is stunning, the story, heartbreaking.

My article about MOOCs just appeared in the morning edition of Nikkei (3/27) 日経朝刊にMOOCについて書いた記事が今朝（3/27 月）掲載されました。 nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO…

Cherry blossoms lighted up in Roppongi.

The flight yesterday from Tokyo to Boston full of people running in the Boston Marathon. Fast flight!

Off to Crete for two weeks to teach summer school. Will join many friends from US and Europe. phl.uoc.gr/confs/cssl17/

Incredible two weeks at Creteling 2017. Rethymno, Crete. Fabulous students & faculty.

Really impressed with HK. Wish I had this view, from my friend's office in Kowloon.

My new position at MIT — Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning (担当副学部長、オープン・ラーニング). Thank you for all your support! shass.mit.edu/news/news-2017…

An exciting new video on language evolution. Very short and really fast! youtube.com/watch?v=BKw64R…

"Where did language come from?" video -- short, fast, by an MIT undergrad -- now with Japanese and Spanish subtitle options. youtube.com/watch?v=BKw64R…

Our Frontiers article on cave art and language just published. Stories in MIT News, National Geographic, AAAS, and Boston Globe, among others. news.mit.edu/2018/humans-sp…

The discovery reported in Science that Neanderthals created cave art rectifies a bad rap they originally got. Based on 19th century ethnology, Neanderthals were said to be morally dark and unintelligent. Real science came to their rescue! theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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Workshop on Case Theory and Labeling of Structure. 8/4/2018. UTokyo. In English. static1.squarespace.com/static/5728dfa…