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...With the amount of detail available to us through consumer-generated reviews, have we reached a state of perfect information...
...five arms of the brittle star are covered by tiny lenses that, like transition sunglasses, are able to regulate their pigmentation in order to collect the right amount of light. Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientist who is joining the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in July, is devising methods to apply the principles of the underwater animal’s superior lens system to man-made optics.“It is really stealing the principle from biology,” she says.Aizenberg, a 47-year-old mother of two who emigrated from Russia in 1991, comes...
Come September, health in that trifecta—along with returning mainstays Matt Luft and Alex Breaux and some new recruits—will give the position an amazing amount of depth...
...It’s marketing. It’s sales. There is no level playing field.” One impact of this relationship is the cost to drug companies, which, according to Campbell, spend $20 billion marketing their drugs. “This stuff adds a tremendous amount of money, driving up the cost of drugs,” he said. While some guidelines regarding such gifts exist, they are only voluntarily enforced. The PhRMA issued a set recommendations governing its interactions with health care professionals in 2002, stating that offering tickets for entertainment or sporting goods was inappropriate...
...April 1983 an Iranian surrogate group blew up the American embassy in Beirut. Forensic investigators sifting through the rubble determined with a fair amount of certainty that the bomb maker had inserted explosives inside the firing chain, ensuring a "signature" was not left to tie the attack to Iran. Iran never claimed the attack, the suicide bomber was never named, and if it weren't for a still classified lucky break, we would have had no evidence the Iranians were behind it. It is unlikely in the intervening years Iran lost its touch. It certainly isn't clumsy enough...