Content tagged "biology"
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Podcast: Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
Weaver, founder of Bethesda Softworks, discusses how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
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The Deepest Paradox: Seafloor Mining and Its Future
It is time to assess the paradoxical nature of seafloor mining: to mine the seafloor to support sustainable and efficient technological development on the land above.
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Podcast, “Collective Intelligence”: Featuring Agnieszka Kurant, Stefan Helmreich, Adam Haar Horowitz and Caroline Jones
Four MIT artists and scholars discuss the idea of collective intelligence in relation to emerging technology, artistic inquiry, and social and cultural movements. CMS/W Professor Nick Monfort moderates.
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Collective Intelligence: Featuring Agnieszka Kurant, Stefan Helmreich, Adam Haar Horowitz and Caroline Jones
Four MIT artists and scholars discuss the idea of collective intelligence in relation to emerging technology, artistic inquiry, and social and cultural movements. CMS/W Professor Nick Monfort moderates.
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Synthetic Biology to Help Colonize Mars
“Technological advances in our ability read, write, and edit DNA have begun to make engineering biology possible.” Honorable mention for the 2017 Obermayer Prize for Writing for the Public.
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Melvin Calvin: Nobel-Winning Chemist and SETI Scientist Wannabe
Even though Melvin Calvin’s claim to fame was his work on photosynthesis, his longest-running passion project was investigating the origins of life in the universe.
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Evolution in the Cornbelt: How a Few Special Species Are Adapting to Industrial Agriculture
In the Corn Belt, today’s scientists can see evolution in real time.
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Loss, Mourning, and Climate Change
What might mourning loss due to climate change reveal about the deeper relationship between human and non-human life in the environment?
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Writing in Biology: A Brief Guide
At once sophisticated and practical, Writing in Biology advises students on composing research articles, literature reviews, oral presentations, and other key biology genres.
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Owning the Code of Life: Human Gene Patents in America
A Supreme Court decision marked a surprising and historic shift in the relationship between patent law and fundamental biology–but questions and uncertainty about a future without gene patents remain.
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There and Back Again?: Reproducibility and the Hunt for a Human Compass Sense
How biologist Robin Baker’s search for a human magnetic homing sense illustrates the necessity of reproducibility in science and underscores science’s messy realities.
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The Reef at the End of the World
In Palau’s Nikko Bay and a few other acidified Rock Island sites, life appears to be shrugging off a sneak preview of the coral-reef apocalypse. Are the corals really okay?
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities”
James Carroll, Rebecca Goldstein, Alan Lightman, and Robert Weinberg talk with Seth Mnookin on “the differences and similarities in the kinds of knowledge available through inquiry in the sciences and humanities.”
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Seizing a Species: The Story of the Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Harvest
A twenty-year effort by the state, harvesters and other stakeholders to develop a science-based management strategy has recently begun to pay off as cyst populations appear to be stabilizing and the harvesting industry has once again become profitable.
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One Fish, Two Fish, Lungfish, Youfish: Embracing Traditional Taxonomy in a Molecular World
Are we in danger of losing vital information about the world if we abandon the thousands of years of cumulative human knowledge to gather dust in basements?
