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[Perspective] Christopher Marshall (1949–2015)
Christopher Marshall was a titan of cancer research. On 8 August he died of the very disease that he strived to understand. This was only 3 months after the unexpected death of his longtime friend and colleague, Alan Hall.
Author: Richard Marais
Categories: Journal Articles
[Book Review] Humanity 2.0
HUMAN+, a new, ambitious, and sharply curated exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, delves into the contemporary meaning of being human. Hosting more than 50 works created by artists and scientists, the collection explores the technological strategies that we might use to transcend bodily and mental limits, our place in nature, and our social interactions, as well as redefinitions of birth and death. In this review, Giovanni Frazzetto highlights some of the exhibition's challenging and provocative exhibits.
Author: Giovanni Frazzetto
Categories: Journal Articles
[Book Review] Intimate details
Database of Dreams tells the story of the enormous effort and expense that went into creating a once popular, but now long-forgotten archive of social science data. Tracing the archive's origins and evolution, reviewer Laura Stark describes how the archive's greatest virtue was also, ultimately, it's fatal flaw. Praising the book as "humane, hilarious, and smart," Stark distills lessons that are relevant to many of today's "big data" initiatives.
Author: Laura Stark
Categories: Journal Articles
[Book Review] Thing Explainer
In Thing Explainer, xkcd creator Randall Munroe sets out to demystify a wide range of complex systems and natural phenomena using only the thousand most common words in the English language.
Categories: Journal Articles
[Books et al.] Books Received
A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 20 November 2015.
Categories: Journal Articles
[Letter] Brazilian aquatic biodiversity in peril
Authors: Hudson T. Pinheiro, Fabio Di Dario, Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger, Marcelo R. S. de Melo, Rodrigo L. de Moura, Roberto E. Reis, Fábio Vieira, Jansen Zuanon, Luiz A. Rocha
Categories: Journal Articles
[Association Affairs] Fifty years after U.S. climate warning, scientists confront communication barriers
At the AAAS symposium, researchers searched for new avenues of public engagement to address the gap in climate change beliefs
Author: Gavin Stern
Categories: Journal Articles
[Association Affairs] Climate Science Milestones Leading To 1965 PCAST Report
Categories: Journal Articles
[Association Affairs] AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named
This year's winners included stories on the health impacts of urban violence, local signs of global climate change, and West Africa's Ebola epidemic
Author: Earl Lane
Categories: Journal Articles
[This Week in Science] Evolutionary routes to blue
Author: Robert L. Last
Categories: Journal Articles
[This Week in Science] Gut microbes affect immunotherapy
Author: Kristen L. Mueller
Categories: Journal Articles
[This Week in Science] How herbivores affect ecosystems
Author: Sacha Vignieri
Categories: Journal Articles
[This Week in Science] Virally cleansing the pig genome
Author: Guy Riddihough
Categories: Journal Articles
[This Week in Science] How malaria parasites infect the liver
Author: Stella M. Hurtley
Categories: Journal Articles
[This Week in Science] Predicting unmeasurable wealth
Author: Gilbert Chin
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