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At UMass Amherst, skulls tell the tale of evolving bats
UMass Amherst news office has a release on a study looking at bats skulls: “This study conducted during the International Year of the Bat offers a clear example of how the evolution of new traits, in...
View ArticleNYTimes: Profile and video interview w/ Harvard’s Steven Pinker
This Times profile is getting a lot of ink. Check it out. (For more on the other side of Pinker’s controversial ideas about gender and the brain, check out this New Yorker story ($) about his nemesis,...
View ArticleIs Kendall Square getting too hip? MIT adds to the boom
The Globe has a story on MIT’s plans for Kendall Square, which describes the school’s backyard as “urban desert, with unused spaces and buildings isolated by wide streets, exaggerating the sense of...
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World AIDS day in Boston
The Massachusetts Aids Action Committee has a full listing ot World AIDS Day events. We’ll be reporting from this one: AIDS @ 30 International Symposium 9am-3pm Location: Harvard Medical School, Joseph...
View ArticleRegeneration, ether and deadly nightshade: Boston science calendar for Dec 4-11
Here’s what’s happening in town his week:
View ArticleSunday’s Chef Adrià talk at Harvard’ sells out
Most of Harvard’s Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday’s return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli,...
View ArticleBU’s biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking level-4 approval
Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on...
View ArticleNew Kendall Square restaurant set up to host bio events like this one
When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn’t have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last...
View Article12 Monkeys, a book of tatts and two nights of Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer, a journalist who writes for the NYTimes and others, tooled around Boston and Cambridge this week. View the story “In Boston, Zimmer on viruses and tattoos” on Storify]
View ArticlePomp and them some for Friday’s MIT presidential inauguration
Friday’s inauguration of new MIT president L. Raphael Reif included all the usual pomp, plus some. Music for the event included a piece by a Senegalese drum ensemble and a performance of “A Rhumba for...
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