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New evidence-based research team at Brown to look at “complex scientific questions.”

New evidence-based research team at Brown to look at "complex scientific questions."

They’re calling it the Brown University ”Center for Evidence-Based Medicine.” But, the team of researchers migrating from Tufts University in the Boston-area  to Providence promise they will apply thier research methods to  “other complex scientific questions.”  Team leader Dr. Thomas Trikalinos offered details to Nature Boston.  Read more

Dante Club author moves out of the inferno and into MIT

Dante Club author moves out of the inferno and into MIT

             Cambridge writer Mathew Pearl is a pro at recreating mid-19th century settings for his mystery novels.  He’s also adept at bringing literary figures like Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe to life – even as he kills them off. Planning the Civil-war era version of an air traffic disaster was a bit more complicated, but he did it for his new novel “The Technologists.”  … Read more