And, a look at our nuclear future too:
MIT is releasing a post-Fukushima report on the “”https://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/nuclear-fuel-cycle.shtml">Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle."
The accident included damage to reactors and to spent fuel storage pools. Both the reactor cores and the pools appear to be sources of radionuclide releases. The accident potential would have been greatly reduced if there were smaller inventories of spent fuel in pools. In the United States many utility spent fuel storage pools are full—a consequence of a failed repository program and the lack of a national spent nuclear fuel policy. The accident in Japan strongly argues for the United States to have a national spent fuel policy—rather than the ad-hoc policies that currently exist.
Cambridge-based Patients Like Me uses patient-generated data to refute 2008 report lithium slows the progression of the, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS:
Link to Nature Biotech paper
Finally, Improbale Researcher Marc Abrahams offers a tribute he wrote to Jerry Lettvin, the legendary MIT congnitive scientist dies last week at the age of 81. Abrahams draws from his unfinished book on Lettvin, whom he describes as looking “like a meld of Zero Mostel and Humpty Dumpty.”
Jerry is one of the most original and widely accomplished figures in science, and maybe the most entertaining. Now in his eighties, an MIT professor emeritus of both electrical engineering and biology, an MD, a psychiatrist, a protege of mathematician Norbert Wiener, a former free-lance researcher for both the CIA and the Mafia, an original screenwriter on the film “Rebel Without a Cause,” an ace designer of electronic circuits, and a raconteur and practical joker with few peers
From Lettvin’s landmark 1959 paper: “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain.”