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Discovering discovery: Fear and button-mashing at the GabLab

By Stephen Craft
Posted: January 21, 2012

Category: Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Lab Work | Tagged Brain and Cognitive Sciences, claustrophobia, discovery, Graduate Program in Science Writing, John Gabrieli, MIT, MRI, neuroscience, science writing, tedium, test subject | Leave a comment

Promise ‘em Bigfoot, give ‘em science

By Bill Lattanzi
Posted: November 15, 2011

Category: Media | Tagged Bigfoot, Borgs, climate change, evolution, It's A Wonderful Life, Jackie Mason, Jimmy Stewart, journalism, Knight Fellowship, MIT, Nova, Ronald Reagan, science, Seth Mnookin, Star Trek, Stuart Brown, TED, weather porn | 10 Comments

Ode to a ghostly tune: the science and musicality of glass

By Hannah Krakauer
Posted: October 31, 2011

Category: Musicology | Tagged armonica, Benjamin Franklin, glass, MIT, MIT Glass Lab, MIT Museum, Mozart, music, oboe | 3 Comments

Welcome to MITSciWrite

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: October 24, 2011

Category: Announcements, Housekeeping | Tagged Knight Fellowship, MIT, SciWriteLabs, STS, The Panic Virus | Leave a comment