Via marcell. Gemma Schusterman did basically this same project 4-5 years ago. She made a very similar elephant vibration sensor: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~gemma/superelephant.html
Nice video documenting the MIT Media Lab Festival of Learning.
MIT Media Lab memorial of Aaron Swartz. I finally got around to watching this.
Interesting macro-economic insight and thesis. Very interesting design of a publication (almost certainly the most beautiful economic text I've ever read). I'll bet complexity is really just a proxy for a bunch of other things, but I doubt the authors would really disagree.
"McLuhan was wrong. The message is the message. We use different media to deliver it, more or less intact."