Boston blog : 2008 archive

• 2008

  • December

    • Unveiling the Nature Network redesign

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      16 December 2008

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      19 comments

    • Harvard endowment plummets

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      03 December 2008

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      1 comment

    November

    • Our Dream Big Challenge night

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      21 November 2008

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      4 comments

    • Upcoming redesign of NN and a super NNB pub night

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      06 November 2008

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      0 comments

    October

    • A London Skeptic in a Boston pub

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      22 October 2008

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      2 comments

    • Genomes for all to see

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      22 October 2008

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      2 comments

    • Official welcome to Anna to the Boston blog

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      21 October 2008

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      5 comments

    • Quantum mechanics (almost) demystified

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      16 October 2008

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      14 comments

    • BU lays out safety precautions at high-security lab

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      15 October 2008

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      0 comments

    • A tale of two scientific careers: Nobel prize winner vs van driver

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      14 October 2008

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      10 comments

    • Largest one-time gift in Harvard’s history

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      08 October 2008

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      0 comments

    • Real science at the Ig Nobels

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      03 October 2008

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      7 comments

    • Science and the Presidential Election at HMS

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      02 October 2008

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      0 comments

    • Teaching students science and confidence, in the water

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      01 October 2008

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      0 comments

    September

    • Last week's Boston science news: Diving in the Sea of Cortez, Blood Donations, Al Gore at Harvard

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      29 September 2008

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      0 comments

    • Science outreach, science and politics – upcoming events

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      25 September 2008

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      4 comments

    • Four scientists are better than one

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      16 September 2008

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      5 comments

    • Lots of improvements on NN

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      16 September 2008

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      3 comments

    August

    • Thanks for a successful conference!

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      30 August 2008

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      10 comments

    • Stem cells and interdisciplinary science at Harvard

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      07 August 2008

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      1 comment

    July

    • The raw food movement reaches Boston

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      16 July 2008

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      8 comments

    • Big NIH winners in Massachusetts

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      08 July 2008

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      0 comments

    • Top 10 NIH grantees in the state

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      08 July 2008

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      0 comments

    • What is fair play in the blogo/commentosphere?

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      08 July 2008

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      63 comments

    • Mass. gets green with new law

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      03 July 2008

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      1 comment

    • Our conference programme is up

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      01 July 2008

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      0 comments

    • Backyard biology

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      01 July 2008

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      0 comments

    June

    • Announcing the nerdiest science mug competition!

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      27 June 2008

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      7 comments

    • The impact of space on science

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      26 June 2008

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      2 comments

    • 2009: a big year for science

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      25 June 2008

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      1 comment

    • Announcing our new weekly roundup

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      24 June 2008

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      1 comment

    • Next NNB pub night: this Wednesday

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      23 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • The late-blooming advocate

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      23 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Genetics and the future of food and farming (blogsharing with Anna)

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      20 June 2008

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      29 comments

    • States' biotech one-upmanship

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      18 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Presenting the logo for our science blogging conference

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      18 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Get your careers question answered

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      17 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Catching fish without hooking sharks

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      16 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • MA biotech bill to be signed into law

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      13 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Big money for translational research

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      13 June 2008

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      4 comments

    • BU Biolab: round X of review; and the tug of war between young and old

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      11 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Scientific hardware of the past

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      09 June 2008

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      0 comments

    • Scientific societies and social networking

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      02 June 2008

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      5 comments

    • Bioengineering blooms at Harvard

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      02 June 2008

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      0 comments

    May

    • The key to collaboration: location location location

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      20 May 2008

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      1 comment

    • MA bio bill bogged down in politics

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      20 May 2008

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      0 comments

    • Getting back on the wagon; more science blogging conference stuff

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      19 May 2008

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      0 comments

    • Day-long escapes from Boston

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      15 May 2008

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      0 comments

    • How now, brown-headed cowbird?

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      09 May 2008

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      0 comments

    • Attacking “Expelled”

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      08 May 2008

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      3 comments

    • H-bomb for scientists

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      07 May 2008

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      1 comment

    • Green energy and research alternative energy—from the Middle East (with help from MIT)

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      06 May 2008

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      0 comments

    • Watching theater…and learning a little about science along the way

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      04 May 2008

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      3 comments

    • Our science blogging conference-logo competition

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      01 May 2008

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      0 comments

    April

    • NNB Pub Night: next week

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      29 April 2008

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      0 comments

    • Call for bike-sharing in Boston

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      29 April 2008

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      8 comments

    • Vagrants in the air

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      25 April 2008

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      2 comments

    • My picks from next week’s Cambridge Science Festival

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      24 April 2008

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      0 comments

    • What states can do for green energy

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      24 April 2008

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      2 comments

    • Flame fighters filter into folks

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      18 April 2008

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      0 comments

    • A new act at the Cambridge Science Festival: dancing scientists

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      17 April 2008

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      1 comment

    • Nature Network blogging conference this summer/fall; New features on NN today

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      15 April 2008

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      1 comment

    • Monday miscellany: new MIT energy center, blogging for jobs, and a new Nature video competition

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      14 April 2008

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      0 comments

    • What can the Internet do to improve public discourse?

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      12 April 2008

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      2 comments

    • Franchising the Nature Network pub nights-call to action

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      10 April 2008

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      19 comments

    • Bringing order to online discussions about climate change

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      10 April 2008

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      5 comments

    • Recipe for good interdisciplinary research

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      09 April 2008

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      2 comments

    • NYC and Berlin spinoffs: highlights from the Network

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      04 April 2008

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      2 comments

    • Zeroing in on inflammation in diabetes

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      02 April 2008

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      0 comments

    March

    • For sale: carbon emissions

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      26 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • Plotting a role for scientists in fiction

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      21 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • Some big winners with NIH grants

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      20 March 2008

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      2 comments

    • What should everyone know about science?

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      19 March 2008

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      12 comments

    • On casinos, gambling and the brain

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      19 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • This is your brain on gambling

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      19 March 2008

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      2 comments

    • Turning carbon dioxide to chalk

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      14 March 2008

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      3 comments

    • A soundtrack for the body

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      12 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • Lobbying for more NIH funding: the plight of young researchers

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      11 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • Skeptics in the pub—coming to Boston

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      11 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • New HHMI appointments for junior PIs

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      10 March 2008

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      1 comment

    • String theorists and systems biology

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      06 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • NIH calls in outside experts to advise on reviews of the BU biolab

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      06 March 2008

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      0 comments

    • NN homepage makeover

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      04 March 2008

      Comments:

      1 comment

    February

    • Friday fun: Would you kiss your PCR machine? And other nerdy science videos

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      29 February 2008

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      1 comment

    • Venter coming to town

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      29 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Mapping Boston’s past, on land and sea

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      29 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Massachusetts life sciences matching-grant program launched; and why the life sciences plan is a bad idea

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      27 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Online networking for scientific careers

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      27 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Nature Network swag

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      27 February 2008

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      5 comments

    • Drug company seeks to “unblind” peer review

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      26 February 2008

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      2 comments

    • NNB pub night this Thursday

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      25 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • The Swiss commute

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      21 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • How NOT to talk to religious people: a lesson for scientists

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      19 February 2008

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      9 comments

    • Dispatch from the AAAS meeting: from open access to election politics

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      16 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Nature Network turns 1 today: progress report

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      14 February 2008

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      2 comments

    • Happy birthday Nature Network

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      14 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Harvard votes for open access

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      13 February 2008

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      2 comments

    • State life sciences money on its way…but do we need it and will it help?

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      12 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • One scientist’s picks of the best of Boston

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      11 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Research Roundup: Watching diseases in real-time as they unfold

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      07 February 2008

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      1 comment

    • When academia gets you down, make frozen yogurt

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      07 February 2008

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      0 comments

    • Cuts to federal research budget cloud the future for Boston physicists

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      01 February 2008

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      1 comment

    • BU biolab delayed; highlights from the Network

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      01 February 2008

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      0 comments

    January

    • A biologist’s almanac and the questions kids ask

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      30 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Review by Harvard researcher retracted amidst discussion about duplicate papers being published

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      29 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Debate mounts over proposed biotech tax breaks

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      28 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • News recap: 1000 genomes, rejecting organ rejection and MIT energy funds

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      25 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • How the TB bug dodges the immune system

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      25 January 2008

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      1 comment

    • Events alerts: pub night and Euro career fair

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      24 January 2008

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      1 comment

    • From lab to start-up

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      22 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Squeezing juice from bugs

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      18 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Judah Folkman dies

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      15 January 2008

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      2 comments

    • Calling all neuroscientists: online journal club

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      14 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • A scientist’s career in pictures

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      14 January 2008

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      1 comment

    • Autism finding makes headlines

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      10 January 2008

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      1 comment

    • Community journalism at Scientific American

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      09 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Of evolution, creationism, and food

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      09 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Why you should talk to your colleagues: it’s good for your career, and for science too

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      08 January 2008

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      1 comment

    • The best of Boston, according to a scientist

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      08 January 2008

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      1 comment

    • What keeps bird flu from latching onto humans

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      07 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Of brain-boosting drugs, chimps and bonobos, magnets to direct cell activity, and changing your mind in science

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      04 January 2008

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      0 comments

    • Nature Network bloggers named some of the best science bloggers of 2007!

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      02 January 2008

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      0 comments

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