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“Eleanor,” the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team’s current race vehicle, reveals the gear and cockpit mounted on her chassis. Her aerodynamic top and solar array are suspended on sawhorses (rear).

The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle team’s solar car, Eleanor, is being inspected at one of the control stops during the world solar challenge in Australia.

The 2010 Mystery Hunt coin was designed to look like a pocket watch, recalling the time travel theme of the Hunt. The obverse of the coin bears the inscriptions “2010 MIT History Mystery Hunt” and “It’s About Time.” T...

Team Codex Seraphinianus coordinate and work on problems Friday night during the Mystery Hunt. They were based in several rooms in Building 5 this year.

This year’s Mystery Hunt, organized by the team Beginner’s Luck, began with a silent skit accompanied by an MP3 file which the Hunt participants were instructed to listen to on Friday, Jan. 15.

xkcd author Randall Munroe speaks to an audience in 26-100. The web comic artist visited on December 17 to answer questions and sign copies of his new book.

The gentlemen and schoolgirls of Titipu accompany Nanki-Poo (in black, right), a traveling minstrel, in song.

Dana G. Mead PhD ’67 will retire as Chairman of the MIT Corporation this June. Mead, seen speaking at an Undergraduate Association Senate meeting in 2008, has been Chairman since 2003.

Guitarist and vocalist Thurston Moore shreds on one of his many Fender Jazzmasters. Throughout the show Moore switched guitars to cover all the alternate tunings required for the Sonic Youth repertoire.

The first few fans get the full Girl Talk experience on the stage at the House of Blues on Nov. 2.

No Mac, no worries. Operating system is irrelevant to the sold-out crowd at the Girl Talk concert on Nov. 2 at the House of Blues.

A few fans look on as Girl Talk makes a live mix on his two laptops on Nov. 2 at the House of Blues.

Clothing optional: Girl Talk claps above the crowd as they cheer him on at the House of Blues on Nov. 2.