Tag Archives: MIT Media Lab

Stranger Than Fiction: Meet Two MIT Grads Who Built The Onion’s Non-Fiction Dopplegänger

Posted on June 12 2013 by Brian Janosch

How do you satirize satire? If you’re asking Dan Schultz and Matt Stempeck, the answer is: “you make it true.” Both are graduates of the MIT Media Lab, and earlier this year they created The On1on. It may not be as funny as The Onion, but the catch is that …

What creative digital comedy startup is working with the MIT Media Lab? THIS one!

Posted on January 30 2013 by cultivatedwit

O hai, this is Baratunde writing things BTW. “Hey. We’re doing this thing in Detroit. You should come.” At 8:35pm on July 30th of last year, that message popped up in my Google Chat window. The “We” was the MIT Media Lab. The “thing” was a weekend of applied brainstorming …