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Of Chefs and Scientists
a true test of a scientist’s skills are not at the bench, but in how they … increase our understanding and awe of the world around us. Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, Experiments
Tagged Chef, Design, Experiment, Scientist, Skills, Training
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Boston Bacterial Meeting
I spent the last two days attending the Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) held at Harvard. It was a great time to talk to old friends and to get to know some new ones. The BBM is a small meeting held … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harvard, Microbes
Tagged Boston Bacterial Meeting, Education, Harvard, Microbes, Richard Losick, Science / Engineering
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OpenLabWare – demystifying the research process
George S. Zaidan ’08, while an undergraduate at MIT, ran into a conceptual problem while teaching a course for high school students (See The Tech article). He asked his students to plan an experiment and in the process realized that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, Experiments, MIT, Science / Engineering
Tagged Discovery, Education, Experiments, George S. Zaidan, John M Essigmann, MIT, OpenLabWare, Science Education, The Tech
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Life under high pressure – the setup
It was only recently that we began to understand the capacity of microbes to populate the most inhospitable places on earth. From the inside of nuclear reactors to highly corrosive sulfur environments, microbes are there. We have found them … Continue reading
Darwin’s 200th Annivesary
Today is the birthday of Charles Darwin. To me, Charles Darwin embodies the ideals of a scientist and a humanist. I grew up in a household which did not believe in the evolution of life forms over time through natural … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Science / Engineering
Tagged Charles Darwin, Chemistry, Education, Evolution, Natural Selection, Science / Engineering
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Professor John M. Essigmann – Mentor and Friend – Wins MIT’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award
Professor John Essigmann was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Award tonight for his work over his tenure at MIT as an advocate for the minority community making students, faculty, and all other members of MIT feel welcome at … Continue reading
Beyond the mind’s eye – blind photography and other photonic sensing
This topic has been in the news lately. It seems that there is new research that reveals a primal sense of awareness and vision underlying our ability to recognize visual images. I first came across this in a piece done … Continue reading
Nanocarbon tubes and other techno-art mediums
If you haven’t seen this, you should go to the NanObama web site and take a look at this new art medium that uses nanocarbon tube structures as the basis for creating images and electronic figures. While you are there, … Continue reading
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
I remember the first time I visited the a TED conference (it stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design) website. Jarrett, a good friend who I blogged about, introduced me to a video from Aubrey de Grey called Why we age … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Business, Engineering, Entrepreneur, Experiments, History, Lectures, Science / Engineering
Tagged Architecture, Aubrey de Grey, Design, Engineering, Enterpreneur, Entertainment, Ideas, Innovation, Jarrett, Lectures, Living Forever, Science and Engineering, Technology, TED
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Variability in food caloric value
New Years Day I am having dinner with a good Jarrett at a chain restaurant eating one of their health conscious salads. We were commenting on how the volume of the salad changed every time we went there to eat. … Continue reading
Posted in Food / Restaurants, Friends, Science / Engineering
Tagged Calories, Calorimeter, Food / Restaurants, Jarrett, Salad, Science / Engineering
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