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The 100-Mile Diet
Local produce fuels the 100-Mile diet (Credit: saw/iStockPhoto) – by Nuño Dominguez For decades, diets were designed to make people lose some extra pounds or push them into healthier lifestyles. Now,...
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Science on Screen Series Presents Psychological Thriller “Marnie”
. The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues the fall season of its acclaimed Science on Screen series with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller MARNIE on Mon, Oct 13 at 7:00 pm. Before the...
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The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch: Not Just for the Holidays
A scene from the glass pumpkin patch at MIT (Credit: MIT Glass Lab) – by Jennifer Berglund Deep in MIT’s labyrinthine innards, a small team of goggled MIT professors and students busy themselves...
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Introducing Gonzalo Giribet: A Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Dr. Gonzalo Giribet, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology If it is slimy, spindly, has more than four legs, maybe more than two eyes, is multi-segmented, and...
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Science on Screen Presents “CONTACT”
Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre explores the possibility of life beyond Earth with a special presentation of CONTACT, the 1997 big-screen adaptation of Carl Sagan’s novel of the same...
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Searching for Global Talent: European Career Fair at MIT
A scene from last year’s fair. (Credit: Daniel Pressl) The 13th annual European Career Fair (ECF), matching candidates from America’s best universities with the top echelon of employers from Europe,...
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Pavlov’s Fish
Black Sea Bass became Pavlov’s Fish in an experiment conducted at the Marine Biological Laboratory – by Joseph Caputo and Nuño Dominguez Fish aren’t known to be exciting. They can’t roll over, shake...
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Salamander Hunt
Spotted salamanders are one of several New England amphibians that use regeneration as a survival mechanism. (Credit: Tom Tyning) – by Joseph Caputo and Nuño Dominguez A trip through conservation land...
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Science on Screen: “Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey”
Science on Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre delves into electronic music with a screening of THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEY, the 1994 documentary about the unusual electronic instrument and the...
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The Ivory Trade Lives On
Long before gold and gemstones, humans were drawn to ivory. Europeans and Americans were especially found of the material, considered the plastic of its age. It was used to make everyday objects from...
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