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Author: Seth Mnookin
Today at 3pm: A live-chat with “Scatter, Adapt, and Remember” author/io9 editor Annalee Newitz
Category: Live-chats
Tagged Annalee Newitz, Gawker Media, io9, Kirkus, Scatter Adapt and Remember
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Credibility in the Age of Twitter: A Town Hall on the Marathon Bombing this Wednesday at the Nieman Foundation
Category: Journalism
Tagged Andrew Kitzenberg, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon, Boston Police Department, Boston Red Sox, Callie Crossley, Cheryl Fiandaca, Commonwealth Avenue, CSAIL, Dana Forsythe, David Abel, David Beard, Harvard, Heartbreak Hill, Hong Qu, Jennifer Peter, Kenmore Square, Marathon Sports, MIT, New Yorker, Nieman Foundation, Palm Beach Post, Patriot's Day, Sean Collier, terrorism, Todd Mostak, Tsarnaev brothers, Washington Post, Watertown, WGBH, WickedLocal
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Upcoming: Nate Silver and I talk politics, baseball, and more
Category: Appearances, MIT
Tagged AHCJ, Baseball Prospectus, Chicago, colorado, fivethirtyeight, journalism, Mark McKinnon, Nate Silver, NFID, PECOTA, politics, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Wendy Sue Swanson
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New York Times with most detailed account yet of MIT’s role in Swartz case
Category: Ethics, MIT, The New York Times
Tagged Aaron Swartz, Harvard, JSTOR, Michael Sussmann, Noam Cohen, Safra Center for Ethics
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MIT president asks for “a thorough analysis” of Aaron Swartz case
Category: MIT
Tagged Aaron Swartz, depression, JSTOR, open access, Rafael Reif, Reddit, Suicide
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We interrupt this extended absence: Tonight only, The Panic Virus at Skeptics in the Pub, Harvard Square
Category: Appearances, The Panic Virus
Tagged Boston Skeptics, Harvard Square, Tommy Doyle's
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The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time
Category: Journalism, Media, Science, Science Writing
Tagged ADHD, ars technica, autism, Bob Dylan, Brendan Maher, cancer, Cryptogenomicon, DNA, Ed Yong, Emily Willingham, ENCODE, Evolver Zone: Genomicron, Ewan Birney, Gizmodo, hookworms, JAMA, Jesus Diaz, John P.A. Ioannidis, John Timmer, Jonah Lehrer, Leonid Kruglyak, Mike White, Naomi Wolf, nature, newspapers, PLoS ONE, Sean Eddy, T. Ryan Gregory, The Finch and the Pea, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vagina, Wired
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