Content tagged "Science Writing"
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Dispatches from Planet 3
Marcia Bartusiak illuminates overlooked breakthroughs and the people who made them.
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Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
“These pieces will transport you to ancient Mars, when water flowed freely across its surface; to the collision of two black holes, a cosmological event that released fifty times more energy than was radiating from every star in the universe; and to the beginning of time itself.”
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Seth Mnookin brings bestselling author’s touch to teaching science journalism
Science “pushes me to constantly go out of my comfort zone,” says director of MIT’s science writing program.
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Seth Mnookin on the fallacy of “both sides” journalism
“We’ve seen too many journalists confuse not taking sides with not calling out liars and frauds.”
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Communicating Science to the Public
Vivid lessons and hands-on practice in communicating scientific research to a general audience.
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Science Writing Admissions Information Session
Science Writing Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty, learn about the program and ask questions. Light refreshments provided. November 17, 2017 2-4PM 14E-304 Can’t make it in person? Participate via […]
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When Going to the Bathroom Becomes Scary
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reports that every six seconds–every six fleeting seconds–diabetes takes another person’s life.
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Creating an Immune Tolerance Model Using an antiCD47 Single Domain Antibody
“These experiments would be a direct downstream application of our A4 immune tolerance system and would also serve as more evidence for using this A4-mediated immune tolerance as a standard part of treatment for similar diseases.”
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A Diagnosing Challenge
Computer scientists challenge machine learning to make strides in pathology.
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Video and podcast: “Time Traveling with James Gleick”
In conversation with Alan Lightman, international best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History.
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Time Traveling with James Gleick
International best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics.
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Video, podcast and summary: “Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?”
Hear from the editor and reporters from STAT, a new publication launched with a significant investment by Boston Globe Media Partners that focuses on health, medicine, and scientific discovery.
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The Mascot and the Refugee: Survival Strategies for the New Urban Jungle
As humans rebuild the world to suit our needs, many of our fellow creatures simply get out of the way–but others try their luck alongside us.
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Podcast: Tom Levenson, “Einstein, Mercury, And The Hunt For Vulcan”
MIT professor of science writing Tom Levenson discusses his new book, “The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe”.
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Einstein, Mercury, and the Hunt for Vulcan
In this talk, Tom Levenson asks why it took more than 50 years — until Einstein’s general theory of relativity — for science to change its mind about the existence of an unseen planet.
