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Champagne for the Blind : Paul Bach-y-Rita, neuroscience's forgotten genius
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita was a visionary neuroscientist and an early pioneer of the theory of neuroplasticity. He is the father of sensory substitution, a field which explores how one sensory modality can be transferred to ...
Subconcussive blows in high school football : putting young brains at risk
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In 2009, Larry Leverenz, Eric Nauman, and Thomas Talavage at Purdue University formed the Purdue Neurotrauma Group (PNG), and set out to study concussions in high school football. They set up a study that combined helmet ...
Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
From skinny sea lions on beaches in California, to hundreds of enormous dead whales in the fjords of Chile, scientists have been recently puzzled by a spate of dead and dying marine mammals. These events are so complicated- ...
The beast within : measuring the minds of zoo animals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Though zoos have come far from their early days of concrete boxes in caring for their residents' physical health, zoo animals' mental health-the feelings and thoughts beneath the furry and scaly exteriors-has only recently ...
One fish, two fish, lungfish, youfish : embracing traditional taxonomy in a molecular world
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
In today's increasingly digitized, data-driven world, the "old ways" of doing things, especially science, are quickly abandoned in favor of newer, ostensibly better methods. One such discipline is the ancient study of ...
The ruins of science : whatever happened to the Tevatron?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The Tevatron was the world's highest energy particle accelerator for more than two decades. Built at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois in the early 1980s, the machine accelerated protons and ...
Seizing a species : the story of the Great Salt Lake brine shrimp harvest
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
In the early 1950s, C.C. "Sparkplug" Sanders began harvesting brine shrimp from Utah's Great Salt Lake. Sanders built up a small business selling their eggs, called "cysts, to aquarium stores across the country. During the ...
To create live treatments of actuality : an investigation of the emerging field of live documentary practice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Keywords: documentary, interactive, live, liveness, ephemerality, interactivity, theater, performance, television, televisuality, database, data, live data, real time Abstract: The field of documentary is undergoing a ...
The Parataxonomist Revolution : how a group of rural Costa Ricans discovered 10,000 new species
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In northwestern Costa Rica, a team of rural workers called parataxonomists has been inventorying butterfly and moth species for 30 years. Just as a paramedic provides a first round of medical care, a parataxonomist does ...
The Angelman Approach : hacking DNA to treat a rare disease
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
One of every hundred children is born with a disease caused by a single abnormal gene. In the case of Angelman Syndrome, the genetic defect leaves patients mentally disabled, largely or completely unable to speak, and prone ...