Posts tagged with "science"

• Academic Careers history, medical, medicine, science

  Welcome to the Land of the Giants: 5 Good Reasons to Study the History of Science and Medicine

  16 November, 2010

  1.    Learn on whose shoulders you stand. On February 5, 1676, Isaac Newton wrote a letter to his rival and adviser, Robert Hooke, which he concluded with his famous aphorism: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Two hundred years later another great scientist, the French physiologist Cla… Read More

• Elisabeth Pain arts, Outreach, science

  Cinema Science Festival

  8 September, 2010

  If you’re a big fan of the big screen and happen to be near the French city of Bordeaux between 30 November and 5 December this year, you may want to attend the Cinémascience film festival that will be taking place there and then. In its third year, the Cinémascience festival is organized by the French National… Read More

• Europe football, physiology, science, sedentary behavior, soccer, sports

  Swedish Researcher Makes Sports and Science Headlines

  6 July, 2010

  It’s pretty common for a scientist who participates in a press conference to appear in a news article that same day. And that was indeed the case for Elin Ekblom-Bak, who presented her ongoing work on the possible detrimental health effects of sitting for prolonged periods at a July 4 satellite event at the Euroscience… Read More

• Alan Kotok athletics, engineering, science, undergraduates

  Science and Engineering Students Skate for NCAA Hockey Crown

  9 April, 2010

  If you didn’t get enough Cinderella from Butler University’s improbable rise to college basketball success, take a look Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT’s) ride to the NCAA hockey’s championship this weekend in Detroit, Michigan. Like Butler, RIT’s  championship aspirations fell short, losing to a su… Read More