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PBS Series Looks at Online Culture

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Katherine

Is it just me or has the pace of culture-memorializing been rapidly increasing? One day your friend sends you a link to a hilarious new video; the next day, it’s on a list of “the top 10 videos of yesterday”; … Continue reading →

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“Father of BioArt” Joe Davis on Colbert

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Katherine

Last night, BioArt pioneer Joe Davis got the Colbert treatment. You wouldn’t know it from the interview, below, but Davis is a researcher in the Biology Department at MIT, where he studies things like whether E. coli respond to jazz … Continue reading →

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The Inspired “Story of Math”

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Karen A. Frenkel

The excellent four-hour BBC documentary The Story of Math introduces viewers to the great mathematicians and their contributions by traveling to the places they lived and that inspired them. Host and Oxford Professor Marcus du Sautoy is most engaging as … Continue reading →

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