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Students need to pack flu kit for return to campus

The hot back-to-school item for college students? A thermometer. And a plan to go home or hunker down in a dorm room if the swine flu strikes.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Stanford professors propose 'lecture-less' medical school classes

Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece to be published May 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine by two ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Architecture of experience

Krystal Tung ’13 wanted to follow the yellow brick road. When the Cabot House resident heard that this spring’s House musical would be “The Wizard of Oz,” she headed straight for the stage.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What did the scientist say to the sommelier? 'Show me the proof!'

What does lemon pan sauce chicken have to do with biochemistry and molecular biology? If you ask the students in Joseph Provost's class at Minnesota State University Moorhead, they'll tell you that successful execution of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The science of selflessness

In a talk at the Geological Lecture Hall on Thursday, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson outlined new thinking on how human social behavior evolved, saying that it was competition among groups of humans — ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 13

Groups are the driving force of human evolution, Edward Wilson says

Plays well with others. There’s a reason that attribute is lauded, and it turns out to have evolutionary roots.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The heat is on: New study of MIT buildings suggests additional approaches to energy efficiency

Many workplaces feature major changes in occupancy over the course of a week. In academic buildings, hundreds of students may pour in for a lecture, then leave an hour or two later, while faculty, researchers ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evolution revolution

Developments in evolutionary biology have a significant impact on the way we look at the world and ourselves in it, according to a conservation scientist who will be speaking on the subject at Cambridge University’s ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The search for life's stirrings

Scientists studying how life arose on Earth are stumped by several key steps in that eventual process, but a Harvard scientist studying the earliest cells says that seemingly intractable problems in this field ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Where you vote may influence how you vote, researchers find

Passersby who stopped to answer surveys taken next to churches in the Netherlands and England reported themselves as more politically conservative and more negative toward non-Christians than did people questioned within ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Verity Platt is uncovering lives of ancient artists

In a corner of Verity Platt's Goldwin Smith Hall office sits a large plaster reproduction of a famous classical sculpture fragment, the Belvedere Torso.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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