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- Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019) https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/no-not-just-time-speeds-get-older/ 159 comments
- Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/ 107 comments
- The Human Body in Space: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction (2013) https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2013/space-human-body/ 47 comments
- A newly discovered body part changes our understanding of the brain (2016) http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/how-a-newly-discovered-body-part-changes-our-understanding-of-the-brain-and-the-immune-system/ 100 comments
- Crispr: A game-changing genetic engineering technique http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/ 2 comments
- CRISPR LAB on apples to prevent them from browning( or further ripening) https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/arctic-apples-fresh-new-take-genetic-engineering/ 2 comments futurology
- Finding Life in Space: Why are we so special? https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2022/finding-life-in-space-why-are-we-so-special/ 92 comments space
- The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/special-edition-on-infectious-disease/2014/the-fight-over-inoculation-during-the-1721-boston-smallpox-epidemic/ 43 comments history
- Dopamine, Smartphones & You: A battle for your time https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/ 7 comments science
- Microbiomes isolated from obese individuals have been shown to harvest more energy from the same amount of food. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/eating-for-a-trillion/ 6 comments science
- Most studies that have researched breast cancer mutations have been performed in women of European ancestry, but the mutation-disease associations in that racial background may not hold true for other women. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/using-genetics-fight-cancer-pros-cons-direct-consumer-testing/ 62 comments science
- Companies like Google are required to “erase” and “rectify” personal data for valid requests “without undue delay." With ambiguity embedded in nearly every requirement of this provision, how do companies implement it? http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/gdpr-challenges-digital-memory/ 3 comments technology
- "Nuclear power is the benchmark to beat, outranking coal, oil, gas, and even wind by a slight margin as the least deadly major energy resource in application," according to both the European Union and Paul Scherrer Institute http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/reconsidering-risks-nuclear-power/ 11 comments technology
- "Platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible." http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/ 18 comments technology
- We can make (practically) any molecule we want. Drugs fail in clinical trials because we don't understand the biology. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/small-molecule-probes-bridging-gap-understanding-curing-disease/ 4 comments science
- During a smallpox epidemic in 1721, Cotton Mather (of the Salem Witch Trials) vigorously promoted the inoculation technique he earned from his West African slave. He received a brick through his window and widespread mockery, including a satirical piece from Benjamin Franklin. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/special-edition-on-infectious-disease/2014/the-fight-over-inoculation-during-the-1721-boston-smallpox-epidemic/ 466 comments history