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Clues and Caution for AI from the History of Biomedicine
Robin Wolfe Scheffler
“The very intractability of biology and medicine to computation makes…
Tech-Master Disaster: Part 3
Take a walk through Kendall Square, Cambridge, this hour. It’s the Emerald City of biotechnology—as magical/mysterious as the Land of Oz, but it’s real, too. The new…
We ignore the past at our peril
To navigate the present, we must heed the lessons of history.
To count the handful of years between the newest and oldest paper on…
24 September 2019
Discovery is always political
David Kaiser traces the roots of government support for science, in the first of a series of essays on how the past 150 years…
Deringer’s first book, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (Harvard University Press, 2018) was selected as the winner of the 2019 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize from the…
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Questions are swirling over a mysterious nuclear accident in northern Russia on August 8. Seven people, including five nuclear scientists, died in an explosion, which…
By Janet Burns
In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and…
Prof. David Kaiser, co-authored with Patrick McCray, published an article in Science marking the 50th anniversaries of Woodstock and the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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