The new season of Science in the News starts next week with a great schedule of science lectures by Harvard grad students free and open to the public. If you're in the Boston area, definitely check it out!
Here's the schedule:
- September 22: Evidence-based Medicine: A Case Study of Vaccines and Autism
- September 29: Bots That Mimic Bugs: Flying, Crawling, and Squishy Robots
- October 6: You Are What Your Mother Ate: The New Science of Epigenetics
- October 13: Beyond Agribusiness: New and Old Ways to Grow Food
- October 20: The Laser Turns 50: A Brief History and New Frontiers
- October 27: Forget-Me-Not: How Memories Are Formed and Lost
- November 3: Our Microbial Organ: The Good and Bad Bugs of the Human Gut
- November 10: The Science of Dogs: History, Psychology, and Genetics of Man's Best Friend
- November 17: Star Power: New Ways to Harvest Energy from our Sun
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