When he’s not studying virus evolution, Tufts Postdoc Ravi Subramanian has another life as a comedy writer. He thinks scientists could learn something from stand-ups about how to engage an audience. A guest post as part of our #reachoutsci series. … Read more
The crowd at last week’s talk sponsored by a group called, “Science for the Public” was small. About 10 people eventually made it to the top floor of the College of Arts and Sciences building at Boston University. But, two of them were videographers who taped the talk for The Forum Network, a website hosted by the public broadcasters at WGBH. Read more
Members of the editorial board of the MIT faculty newsletter offer anonymous comments what they want in a new president, and there choices. Find the full article here. Read more
A robot tried to shoot baskets. Kids learned how Beckham bent the soccer ball. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers explained the how the aluminum baseball bat was redesigned for safety. Read more
Lots of recent neuronews out of Boston so we’ve put together a Boston Neuroscience Twitter list. Local players with a few national Tweeps of interest.
MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is prepares for its upcoming conference on “New Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental Health” and two neuroscience imaging papers of note came out of Boston this week.
One used the much invoked map metaphor to talk about a study out that looked at “relationships of adjacency and crossing between cerebral fiber pathways.” Using a technology developed at Mass General Hospital called diffusion magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers were able to identify a grid-like pattern.
After attending a media training session organized by the MIT student group, Luke E. Stoeckel, PhD, Director of Clinical Neuroscience and Staff Training at MGH-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine, decided to look at ways to publicize his work. Read more
Last week, during the school vacation, the gecko exhibit at the Museum of Science Boston was mobbed. Kids nosed up to the terrariums to see the nimble lizards scale the glass. They learned that geckos do not have sticky feet. Instead, tiny toepad hairs allow geckos to climb walls through phenomenon called frictional adhesion. Read more
What’s up this week? Supernovae, deep water drilling and Too Much To Know — the book. Also see our list of ongoing events, including the newly opened Geckos: Tails to Toepads exhibit at at the Museum of Science , which runs through May 6. Read more