I’ve said it here before: I’m not much of a gamer. My 9-year-old nephew gets exasperated every time he sets me up in front of the Wii and ultimately just takes the controller away from me so he can deal with both characters at once. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t get excited when I ...
Art, Media and Design student Madeleine San Martin practically grew up inside NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which celebrated its most recent victory with the successful landing of the Mini Cooper-sized Mars rover, Curiosity. Madeleine’s father, Miguel San Martin, was instrumental in designing the software that allowed the rover to decelerate from a speed of 13,000 ...
Henry Molaison, HM for short, wanted to be a brain surgeon as a kid. Instead he spent his life as a research subject after an experimental surgery on his own brain left him incapable of forming new memories. Over the weekend I got to see the last performance of Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM at the ...
Justin Dowd is a fourth year physics and math major here at Northeastern. This phenomenal “chalkimation” video about Einstein’s daydream discovery of relativity won him a ticket to outer space (yeah…outer space) through the Metro’s Race for Space competition. Not only is Dowd brilliant enough to explain relativity in simple terms, he’s also an artist ...
Not me! And certainly not Gail Begley, an academic specialist in the biology department and director of the Pre-Health Advising Program. Begley’s poem “Song of Sanger,” won honorable mention in the annual poetry contest of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In honor of my Friday exhaustion, I will sign off for the ...
Last week’s Meet the Author lecture at Snell Library featured science photographer Felice Frankel of MIT. The lecture was connected to the Places and Spaces exhibit currently on display on Snell’s first and second floors. Places and Spaces opened my eyes to an entire way of thinking that I hadn’t previously considered. And as you ...