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Harvard Medical School presents "Talks@12: Paul Farmer Leads a Panel Discussion on Haiti" this Thursday from 12-1 p.m. in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at the New Research Building. Professor Paul Farmer is the co-founder of Partners in Health and the Deputy UN Special Envoy for Haiti. In case you have class (or can't schlep all the way to the Longwood Campus), a recording of the event will be available here...
Mantzoros—a former associate professor in both departments and the clinical research overseer of the division of endocrinology diabetes and metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—has garnered acclaim for his work on endocrine-related diseases such as obesity and diabetes...
Florencia Ziemke, a clinical research fellow at BIDMC who has worked with Mantzoros for one and a half years, said that Mantzoros has the ability “to build a family” as a mentor...
Enter Dr. Margaret S. Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, whose research focuses on human visual perception. Livingstone realized that while contemporary art historians like Ernst Gombrich are not wrong in their analysis of “Mona Lisa,” there’s a science to da Vinci’s masterpiece that had yet to be fully explained. Analyzing the work in terms of its spatial frequencies, Livingstone revealed that the lower spatial frequencies, best seen by the peripheral vision, make the figure appear to smile, while at higher frequencies the smile almost vanishes...
Cavanagh’s own research, which takes the same approach, has led him to a number of discoveries about an “alternative physics” operating in representational artworks. Impossible shadows, reflections, and contours number among the artistic flaws surveyed in an article Cavanagh wrote for the science journal “Nature” entitled “Artists as Neuroscientists.” “Artists use this alternative physics because these particular deviations from true physics do not matter to the viewer,” he writes. “The artists...