Spring 2016

In the 1990s, writer Pagan Kennedy began hanging out at Building 20, a remarkable incubator of innovation on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born there were some of the most important advances of modern times, from the atomic clock to modern linguistics. Partly as a result of this experience, Kennedy, who had studied fiction at Johns Hopkins, turned toward science writing, which brought her into contact with inventors who worked in what she now thought of as the Building 20 spirit. / Johns Hopkins Magazine