popular culture
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Guest Post: Science in the Game of Thrones
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Did you watch GoT last night? If not, don’t worry, the following post will not reveal a thing, I promise. Rebecca Certner, a PhD candidate in Steve Vollmer’s lab, wrote it a couple weeks ago for the Marine Science Center’s graduate…
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…and what about American Idol?
Last week I told you about work from Bruno Gonçalves, at the Laboratory of for the modeling of biological and socio-techical systems, about the Twitter behaviors of politically-minded social media users. Today I got an email from Alessandro Vespignani, who directs the…
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3Qs: ‘Dream Factory’ body images are nightmare for most
Northeastern cinema studies professor talks about destructive impact that Hollywood depictions of beauty can have on eating and other behavior