Content tagged "biology"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Posted by Fatima Husain S.M., Science Writing, 2018
Topics: biology, geochemistry, mining, oceans, scienceThe 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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Posted by Rachel Thompson S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2019
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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Event: Thursday, September 27, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Posted by Aaron Dy
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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Posted by Maria Temming S.M., Science Writing, 2017
Topics: astrobiology, biology, Melvin Calvin, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETIMelvin 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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Posted by Conor Gearin S.M., Science Writing, 2016
Topics: biology, Corn Belt, evolution, Great Plains, wildlifeEvolution 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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Posted by Lily Bui S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2016
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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Posted by Leslie Roldan and Mary-Lou Pardue
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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Posted by Sarah Schwartz S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Topics: Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, biology, biotechnology, genetics, Human Genome Project, innovation, law, morality, patents, rights, SCOTUSOwning 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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Posted by Michael Greshko S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Topics: biology, magnetic field, magnetoreception, pathological science, reproducibility, robin baker, Science Writing, scientific method, sensesThere 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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Posted by Joshua Sokol S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Topics: biology, climate change, coral, ecology, oceans, palau, reefs, rock islands, Science WritingThe 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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Posted by Sarah Schwartz S.M., Science Writing, 2015
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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Posted by Sam Wotipka SM, Science Writing, 2014
Topics: biology, environmentalism, great salt lake, shrimp, utahSeizing 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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Posted by Lindsay Brownell SM, Science Writing, 2014
Topics: biology, fish, taxonomyOne 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?