Math by Mail: Going Strong at 30
Sometime around junior high, this Weizmann science writer stumbled upon Mathematical Games, the late Martin Gardner’s monthly math puzzle at the back of my mom’s Scientific American, and I became a devotee. The best ones, of course, were those that required a little sideways thinking, and these yielded the pleasure of that “Aha” moment when [...]
2012 AAPS National Biotechnology Conference heads to San Diego
WHO: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) WHAT: The 2012 AAPS National Biotechnology Conference (NBC) will gather scientists from industry, government, and academia for three days of educational offerings specifically geared toward the biotechnology sector of the pharmaceutical sciences. The conference kicks off with a brand new advanced Immunogenicity Training Course and two AAPS Workshops, [...]
One Man’s Retirement Plan
Have you given any thought to your retirement? Planning on pottering? Catching up on reading? Thinking you’ll cross that bridge when you come to it? According to Prof. Bernardo Vidne, retirement can be more like jumping out of a plane than crossing a bridge – even if you are prepared. The story of Vidne’s working [...]
National institute launched to help businesses grow with Asian consumers
Nanyang Technological University Launched officially today, the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight (ACI) announced its strategy and plans for becoming the world’s go-to centre for companies seeking to grow their business in Asia. Top on the list is an Asia Consumer Summit, organised with the Financial Times. Modelled in format after the World Economic Forum [...]
Take a class online from Ben Bernanke
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is going back to school – and the public is invited to watch. As part of his efforts to demystify the nation’s central bank, Bernanke has agreed to deliver four online learning lectures to George Washington University. Bernanke, a former economics professor at Stanford and Princeton, will become the first [...]
Academic Freedom and Aids Denialism
There is an interesting development in the area of Aids Denialism (and by extention climate change denialism and the rest of it) in Italy: The University of Florence has launched an inquiry into the teaching activities of an academic who assisted on a course that denies the causal link between HIV and AIDS, and supervised [...]