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...show Shark Tank as one of five executives who vet business ideas pitched by would-be entrepreneurs. O'Leary often delivers the harshest of the business critiques. On a recent show, he called one small-business owner "radioactive." On another show he told a woman who said her products spread happiness that her business was worthless...
...outright panic, into disease surveillance - ordinary people aren't trained epidemiologists. Global health officials already struggle to separate the noise from the truth; for every actual outbreak of a new disease, there are countless false or overstated reports. But in an interconnected age, when both information and disease can spread in an instant, having an imperfect network is better than none at all. "This is an alert tool that is not trying to raise fear but awareness instead," says Brownstein. "We want to encourage good public-health information, and at the end of the day that's what this...
News of the advertisement spread quickly as students expressed their shock and anger over various organization and House e-mail lists. The Crimson received over 20 separate e-mails as well as a joint letter signed by over 30 undergraduates—including several Crimson editors...
...Irene Eckstrand, a MIDAS Scientific Officer, the Harvard center will be “differentiated not by the questions they seek to answer, but by the methods they use.” HSPH’s researchers will be focusing on the use of mathematical models to analyze the spread of infectious diseases. In contrast, MIDAS’ other centers have primarily relied on “individual-base models,” which involve finding patterns in tracking an enormous number of individuals. “With a mathematical model, you give up a little realism, but you gain...
However, the BCS could do more to raise its profile and spread awareness of this service as an option for struggling students. With tutoring costing up to hundreds of dollars per hour outside Harvard, students should consider using BSC’s tutoring service more, even after the price hike. We also recognize the variety of free resources available to students—teaching fellows, professors, and friends can all provide help to students...