Dr. Satchin Panda
Eat, Sleep, and Move Right
Our obsession with digital screens is depriving us of sleep and hurting our health. Study after study shows that we are staying up till late, glued to our gadgets, which in turn leads to another…
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Make Home Cooking a Habit — It’s good for you
Physician-chef Rani Polak explains why clinicians should learn cooking skills—and teach them to patients.
Kevin Esvelt, the gene drive police
A single escaped organism is all it’ll take…
Evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, works with gene drives, engineered bits of DNA that can cause a mutation to become heritable all the time. He calls for researchers…
by Barry Goldstein for Boston Globe.
Ethan Zuckerman: ‘I go to Reddit for the cat pictures’
Ethan Zuckerman is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. Over a decade ago, the Internet scholar co-founded GlobalVoicesOnline.org, a site to help guide readers through the maze of citizen journalism from several countries. He…
by Wendy Maeda --Globe Staff
The Download with Prof. Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT and a psychologist by training researches the relationship between humans and technology. Her recent writing has focused on how new forms of communication – email, texting, and social media…
The Download With My Favorite Digital Native
What device wakes you up in the morning? No device, no alarm. My mom pats me awake. Are you the inbox-zero type when it comes to email? Since I am 6 years old, I am…