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Oryx and Crake, Atwood’s newest novel, explores the dark side of cloning and other scientific endeavors, comes from a long line of lab rats—her grandfather was a doctor, her father a biologist and her nephew and brother are researchers. Atwood herself planned to follow the family tradition, before landing in her current occupation. “I was headed toward being a biologist of some kind before I got kidnapped by writing,” she says...
From worries about terrorism to deadly viruses to glow-in-the-dark creatures, Atwood’s ideas for her book, she admits, are cribbed from the current climate. For example, the narrator spent his childhood in a gated community owned by his parents’ science lab, in which the schools, homes and parks are all controlled by corporate interests...
...None of us were really worried,” said Johnson. “We were all really excited that chemistry lab was cancelled...
...other schools with J-terms, the month does provide students with non-credit and for-credit activities that could not be offered in any other environment. With wide participation from faculty and student clubs, MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) allows students to do lab work, learn topology, shoot a bow-and-arrow, weld aluminum and watch imported anime—literally everyday. Middlebury’s J-term includes extensive travel and service opportunities. At Harvard, an ideal J-term could open up the possibility of international travel, research and volunteer work. Student groups could also take...
...towards centralization—with Allston and the growing push towards interdisciplinary—that increasingly pits science departments against each other. (But far from actually promoting interdepartmental collaboration, this instead seems to have generated an attitude of suspicion, where each department worries their neighbor will steal the limited lab space under works...