Fox Harrell: “In the face of peer evaluations that put researchers back in a prescribed box we should incorporate or combine review systems from various disciplines.”
Education Arcade’s science game “Vanished” featured in Boston Globe
“Students will be asked to collect data, conduct research, consult peers, and draw conclusions as they try to figure out what happened, and why.”
“VANISHED”: Smithsonian and MIT to Launch Sci-Fi Infused Interactive Mystery Event
VANISHED is an 8-week online/offline environmental disaster mystery game for middle-school children, meant to inspire engagement and problem solving through science.
Podcast: Stefan Helmreich, “Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology”
A first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s three-person submersible, Alvin, meditating on the sounds rather that the sights of the dive.
Information Visualization for the People
The design of information visualization, defined as the interactive, graphical presentation of data, is on the verge of a significant paradigm shift.
Science Fiction Author Joe Haldeman Says Write Every Day
Haldeman and Henry Jenkins discussed the ways in which scientific knowledge plays into science fiction as well as the interaction between science and religion in terms of the sci-fi genre.
Across the Great Divide: Chimeras and Species Boundaries
Can, and should, human-animal chimeras be made?
