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...inclined to pity the former. But does anyone truly know exactly what those tourists’ poor, unsuspecting hands are touching? Is it Harvardian urine or just plain metal? Armed with state-of-the-art swabbing technology and chemistry tutor Stephen J. Haggarty, FM put on its mad-scientist hat and sought the answer to this pressing question...
Conventional wisdom among anthrax aficionados is that the mailings were the work of an American scientist with bioweapons experience who was frustrated by how little attention the U.S. government was paying to the threat these weapons pose. Lake likes that theory a lot better than the ones that blame al-Qaeda or Saddam Hussein. But he doesn't agree with those who tried to drop a dime on Steven Hatfill. He's the former Army scientist whose house has been repeatedly searched and who was famously described by Attorney General John Ashcroft as a "person of interest" (there are about...
...consider wearing it. Or so suggest the curators of "The Adventures of Aluminium, Jewellery to Jets," at London's Design Museum through Jan. 19, which polishes up the familiar stuff. Today a symbol of our throwaway culture, aluminum was not so long ago a precious metal. When a French scientist first extracted tiny pieces of it in 1845, the earth's most abundant metal was as valuable as gold and used in jewelry and precious objects. But only 10 years later, a new chemical extraction process made aluminum more easily obtainable, and from then on its lightness and durability...
These events show that being a scientist is no longer just a matter of doing research. Increasingly, scientists are being called upon to defend their work from creeping government regulation. And a new group being formed at the Institute of Politics (IOP) may help Harvard students of science prepare for this new, more political research scene...
...such as Fineberg support open publication of research, some academics remain skittish. Moreover, the most serious threat to open scientific research comes not from the politicos in the White House but from the academics whose intellectual strafing allows restrictions to advance. In his new book Our Posthuman Future, political scientist Francis Fukuyama—who is also a member of the influential President’s Council on Bioethics—makes the case for regulating the manipulation of human genes and the widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac. His principle arguments against practices such...