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Nobel Prize winning physicist redefines views on space
Frank Wilczek, MIT professor and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, gave a public lecture on May 6 entitled “What Is Space?” Continue reading
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute prof. presents We Are the Web: The Rise of the Social Machine
Professor Jim Hendler, the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, and Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Web Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, spoke at the Jones Seminar entitled We Are the Web: The Rise of the Social Machine on Friday, May 7th. Hendler explained the power of the web and his vision to harness that power to help solve real-world problems. Continue reading
Boiling down the 2010 health care bill
Michael Tanner, a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, presented “Health Care Reform: What Just Happened” last Tuesday. Continue reading
R-Rated movie viewing linked to early onset of alcohol use
Adolescents who are allowed to watch R-rated movies are more likely to begin drinking at an early age, according to a recent study by Susanne Tanski, a Dartmouth Medical School professor, and James D. Sargent of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Continue reading
DMS profs. express concerns for overdiagnosis of cancer
Dartmouth medical school professors H. Gilbert Welch and William Black explored a relatively new term in the medical dictionary: “overdiagnosis.” Their paper was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Continue reading