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...mission to unveil inhalable chocolate to the world. By day they scoured the finest boutiques in Paris for chocolate to use in their product. Money was no object. By night they stayed in a beautiful hotel near the Louvre. When they had all their supplies, the artist and the scientist hand-ground chocolate in preparation for their invention’s big reveal. The day finally came. In the corner of the dark, smoky gallery, the artist and the scientist unleashed “Le Whif” onto the world. “Orange or Gingerbread...
...Kravitz is hardly the only scientist so taken with the red-eyed bugs. While the antics of Drosophila melanogaster, as the fruit fly is known in scientific circles, may seem irrelevant at first blush, they are anything but. Remember, it was the fruit fly, which has been used in experiments of heredity for some 100 years and whose genome was fully decoded in 2000, that first educated us far more complex human beings about the way our genes work. In essence, it was on the tiny back of the fruit fly that scientists launched a genetic revolution. (See pictures...
Even if Kim dies tomorrow, what will come next in North Korea might not be radically different. "Do not conflate the end of the Kim regime with the end of North Korea as a state," says Andrew Scobell, a political scientist from Texas A&M University, who wrote a paper for the Pentagon last year assessing the North's future. Baek Seung Joo, who watches North Korea at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, says, "We have been through a transition before." When Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, died suddenly in 1994, Kim Jong Il succeeded with...
...announced Thursday morning. The announcement highlighted Chu's role in pushing renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and as an academic, and referenced Harvard's own recent efforts to promote sustainability and research to address environmental questions. “Steven Chu is a brilliant scientist and an eloquent exponent of thoughtful, creative approaches to meeting the challenge of global climate change,” said University President Drew G. Faust in the press release. “His own career combines leadership at the forefront of both disciplinary and interdisciplinary science with a passionate devotion...
Edward Green, the director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project and senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, drew attention last week when he agreed with Pope Benedict XVI’s statement that the answer to the African AIDS crisis lies in the promotion of faithful partnerships rather than increasing the availability of condoms. “I knew that if I agreed with anything the Pope said it would cause a fire-storm,” said Green. “I took the opportunity to cause an uproar and focus on the evidence...