David Weinberger on Too Big To Know … David Weinberger on Too Big To Know … We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital […]

Study suggests football-related concussions caused by series of hits, not a single blow Football-related concussions may be caused by series of hits to the head over time rather than a single blow, according to findings from a two-year study of high school athletes. In a study slated to be published in theJournal of Biomechanics, Purdue University researchers […]

Smaller plates may not be helpful tools for dieters, study suggests Dieters advised to use a smaller dinner plate may find themselves without much weight loss success, or so says findings recently published  in theJournal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. In the study (subscription required), 10 overweight and 10 normal weight women participated in the study; each was […]

From the Balance Beam to the State Bar. UCSF Patient Turns Life-Threatening Condition into Source of Strength. Angelica Galang loves competition. Feisty and determined for as long as she can remember, Galang became interested in gymnastics at the age of four after watching the U.S. women’s team win the team bronze medal at the 1992 […]

Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost. Analysis of Kenya Study Shows Simultaneously Confronting HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Waterborne Illness Improves Health. A volunteer in 2008 shows people from the Lurambi District in Western Kenya how to use incecticide-treated bednets to prevent the spread of malaria during the Integrated Prevention Demonstration Campaign […]

Lecture or listen: When patients waver on meds According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Attempts at problem-solving with patients who had lapsed occurred in less than […]

A conversation with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Rick McCallum – Institute of Politics … A conversation with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Rick McCallum – Institute of Politics Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. and producer Rick McCallum discuss the story of the Tuskegee Airmen with Harvard Law Professor Ronald Sullivan. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Rick McCallum […]

Basketball, with perspective Lippert set to score 1,000th point, but focuses on volunteering too Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, who left sunny San Diego three years ago to take up residence in chilly Cambridge, “hasn’t looked back since.” Now she’s set to surpass the 1,000-point mark this spring./ Amanda Swinhart/Harvard Staff Photographer In a refreshing twist, […]

Making the worms turn Biophysicist and his lab pioneer ways to track, influence roundworm nervous systems Aravinthan Samuel and researchers in his lab set to work designing equipment that could measure nerve activity in living, wiggling worms. They first succeeded three or four years ago, becoming the first to record neural activity in freely moving […]

As strong as an insect’s shell Wyss research takes cue from nature to create tough, low-cost material Postdoctoral fellow Javier Fernandez (right) and Don Ingber, director at the Wyss Institute, have created a new material made from discarded shrimp shells and proteins derived from silk called “shrilk.” It is thin, clear, flexible, and hard as […]