Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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In a press conference last week the leaders of the solar, wind, geothermal and hydropower industries called on Obama and the incoming Congress to look ahead. First, energy leaders asked Obama to immediately adjust the alternative-energy production credit to provide green investors with a cash rebate, rather than a...
Environmental activist William E. McKibben ’82 implored Harvard affiliates this week to recognize the imminent dangers of climate change and push for an international cap on carbon emissions.“In this past year, this has gone from ‘This is a big problem?...
The creators of this exhibit, Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin, named their project “Lossless,” referring to the compression or duplication of electronic data with no reduction of quality. “Lossless” is both a display of art in the age of...
The study, funded by Astra-Zeneca, the maker of rouvastatin, tested nearly 18,000 patients who had low levels of cholesterol but high levels of the reactive protein. According to Ridker, the reduction in heart disease risk was far greater than the researchers anticipated.
“Rates of heart attack went down 50 percent,” Ridker said. “This is a magnitude of effect about twice as large as what you would predict. Similar studies found a 20 to 30 percent reduction in risk. The question becomes, ?...