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Local Warming

Humans don't hibernate -- we work in our offices all through the winter. How does being ensconced in a heat bubble during those cold months strike you? An art installation dubbed “Local Warming” which offers a preview of such personalized climate control, returns from the...

Bamboo Nurseries

In a remote, wet evergreen forest in southern India, the male white-spotted bush frog calls to lure a female into his snug bamboo-stalk love nest. Entry is granted through a narrow opening probably bored by insects or rodents. Once inside, the tiny frogs mate in...

Reflections of a Pioneer Woman Scientist

In her career as a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus has researched the electronic structure of carbon in its myriad forms. Dresselhaus was in Oslo for the Kavli awards ceremony in 2014. I caught up with her for a chat...

The Lady With The Diamond Nose-Stud

Vermeer, the Dutch master, was famous for his “Girl With a Pearl Earring”. In South India, an artist would have portrayed a “Lady with a Diamond Nose-Stud.” The Rolls Royce purred to a halt outside the legendary physician’s clinic in Madras. A middle-aged couple stepped...

Kavli Awards Ceremony

This September, I was in Norway to attend the Kavli Prize Awards Ceremony. King Harald presented the million dollar award to scientists who've made important, or as they say seminal, contributions in these 3 fields: Nanotechnology, Neuroscience and Astronomy. Unlike the Nobel, this award is...

Consulting Careers for PhDs

It doesn’t matter all that much what your Ph.D. is in—the important thing is the analytical approach you bring, writes Brian Rolfes, partner and director of global recruiting at McKinsey & Company, in an e-mail. “That said,” Rolfes adds, “we are delighted when new...