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...friend at school told her about an internship geared toward high schoolers at the Santa Fe Institute, a world-class scientific research center. The program paired six teens with top scientists to learn how to write computer programs modeling complex systems. Hale's project focuses on the dynamics of how people get on and off airplanes. "Even though it's not going to, like, affect the future of the world, it's a really cool problem to think about because everyone's experienced it," she says. "It's the first time I realized science is applicable to everyday life. Even...
...Getting such an early start on the career path can only help Saez decide where she wants to wind up, says her mentor and boss at MoMA, Chris McGlinchey. "I had a postdoctoral student write me the other day saying she had just happened upon conservation science," he says. "She had never realized you could combine art and science, and now she's scrambling to try to redirect her career this...
...what I or anyone else would consider unsanitary conditions.” According to the CDC web site, the cockroach can be “an allergen source and an asthma trigger,” and can carry Salmonella and other viruses. Whitfield said that he plans to write a letter to the University calling for action. “You’re telling me that one summer you can’t close down Lowell or Eliot house and spray the entire building?” he said. But Zachary M. Gringo...
Over the summer, Harvard students write novels while sitting on Tahitian beaches, form future international conglomerates, and help starving sub-equatorial children learn about women in business. But when it comes to spinning the tale, style murders substance...
...flying is often the only way to go. Four-fifths of airline-related emissions come from journeys over 1,500 km, for which there's no real alternative (Moscow to Beijing by bus, anyone?). But if flying simply can't be avoided, its environmental impact needn't be a write-off. Consider seating arrangements. "The more people on a plane, the better," says Gehan Talwatte, managing director of London-based aviation consultancy Ascend. Legroom may be compromised during budget or charter flights, but squeezing more seats on board reduces each flier's share of an aircraft's fuel load...