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John Jarcho, on What It Takes to Make It Into the World's Oldest Medical Journal
John Jarcho (right) speaks to Andrada Fiscutean (left) and other Knight Science Journalism Fellows in November. Photo by Ashley Belanger. Jarcho, Deputy Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, spoke to Knight Science Journalism fellows about the journal’s famously rigorous review process.
Donald Ingber, on Getting Research Out of the Lab and Into the World
Photo by Jessie Hendricks. Speaking at the Knight Science Journalism program, the Wyss Institute director showcased the institute’s diverse portfolio of bio-inspired engineering work.
Author Bina Venkataraman Is Changing the Way We Think About the Future
Bina Venkataraman speaks to KSJ fellows. (Photo by Ashley Belanger.) The former White House adviser spoke to KSJ fellows about her new book, which draws on insights from biology, economics, and psychology to shed light on long-term decision making. “My definition of optimism is different,” Bina Venkataraman told attendees of a seminar at MIT’s Knight Science Journalism (KSJ) program on November 5th.
“If You’re Learning, You’re Doing it Wrong”: Behind the Scenes at The Story Collider
By Jessie Hendricks Published October 24, 2019 Featured, KSJ News, KSJ seminars Katherine Wu (left) and Ari Daniel. Photo by Jessie Hendricks. As co-producers of the show’s Boston series, Katherine Wu and Ari Daniel help storytellers tap into the human side of science. To take the stage at The Story Collider, a live storytelling show that consists of “true, personal stories about science,” you don’t need to be a scientist — or even a storyteller.
Author Katherine Eban 'Went the Distance' to Win Her Sources' Trust
Photo by Ashley Belanger. The investigative journalist’s latest book, “Bottle of Lies,” was the product of a decade of reporting and more than 240 interviews. Even at a seminar about the sinister side of the generic drug industry, no one was quite prepared to see the picture of a snake coiled inside a sterile room at an overseas drug manufacturing plant. Or the bug crawling out of a broken blood pressure capsule in New Jersey.
With "Superbugs," Matt McCarthy Explores the Human Side of Clinical Trials
The physician and writer spoke to KSJ fellows about the ethical challenges of writing his third book, which offers a look behind the scenes of a clinical drug trial. When bestselling author and physician Matt McCarthy first told his editor at Random House that he wanted to write a book about antibiotics, he was shot down. “Hasn’t that been done?” he recalls his editor saying.
Getting off the Ground: Dee Ann Divis on the Power of Drone Journalism
Photo by Gregor Hartl During her time as editor of Inside Unmanned Systems, Divis has seen the miniature flying machines evolve into a newsroom must-have. In the midstream of a journalism career that had already taken her to the Washington Examiner, United Press International, and Inside GNSS, Dee Ann Divis decided to start a magazine — about drones. And in the five years since, she’s seen the miniature flying machines evolve from novel curiosity to newsroom must-have.
Ellen Shell, on the Passion Paradox and the Meaning of Work
The Atlantic contributor and Boston University journalism professor spoke to Knight Science Journalism fellows about her latest book, “The Job.” “Who in their right mind would take on a subject so sweeping and so contentious as ‘work’?” Ellen Shell asked as she spoke to Knight Science Journalism fellows earlier this month. Shell would, that’s who.
Writing Under Pressure: Simson Garfinkel on (Almost) Meeting His Deadline For ‘The Computer Book’
Computers are “devouring” the world, the journalist turned computer scientist told KSJ fellows last month. Three years ago, Simson Garfinkel received an email from an agent. Sterling Publishing was searching for an author to write “The Computer Book,” the latest in a series of coffee table books that each offer a visual history of a single technical subject.
'Underbug’ Author Talks Termites, Technology, and Writing Weird
Lisa Margonelli speaks to KSJ fellows. Photo by Magnus Bjerg. In both her talk and her book, the veteran journalist used termites as a springboard to address themes like climate change, design, and the philosophy of writing. Lisa Margonelli began her talk the way any termite aficionado might: with a photo of a pale, bloated queen. Around the oversized insect, worker termites scurried industriously.
Journalism in the Age of Disinformation
Photo by Elana Gordon Decker, a research fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, is working to understand disinformation—where it originates, how it spreads, and how it can be corralled. It took less than a month for Gritty—the furry, wide-eyed mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team—to go from lovable monster to cautionary tale of the post-truth era.
Saving Lives With AI: Rosalind Picard on the Power of Affective Computing
The Media Lab professor spoke with KSJ fellows about building wearable devices that can predict seizures and tell us when we’re sliding into depression. Photo credit: Magnus Bjerg For some, the words “artificial intelligence” conjure up a vision of a future where robots have taken all of our jobs. For others, it brings to mind emotional machines — robots programmed to demonstrate a semblance of humanity.
Danielle Wood Believes 'We're at a Beautiful, Unique Moment in the History of Space'
Photo credit: Magnus Bjerg Wood’s group at the Media Lab aims to break down barriers that have kept the developing world from engaging with space research. MIT professor Danielle Wood knew she wanted to be an aerospace engineer when she interned at NASA at age 17. But she also spent summer breaks in Kenya teaching young girls English, math, and science, which engaged her long-term interest in justice and development.
David Kaiser on Einstein, Politics, and the Limits of Self-Policing Science
Image credit: Magnus Bjerg Physicist and physics historian David Kaiser spoke to KSJ Fellows about how culture and politics altered the fate of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. When LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves to the world in 2016, it was the discovery of a lifetime, hailed as the ultimate confirmation of a prediction made by Einstein’s theory of general relativity more than one hundred years earlier.
MIT's Edmond Awad, on the Many Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars.
Edmond Awad, of MIT’s Moral Machine project. Photo by Magnus Bjerg. Awad and his MIT colleagues gave millions of people the self-driving-car trolley problem. In a recent visit to KSJ, he talked about what he learned. A self-driving car approaches a crosswalk and suddenly its brakes fail. It can avoid a person who’s crossing legally by swerving into the opposite lane, but then it will hit two people who are jaywalking. Anyone hit by the car will certainly die. What should it do?
David Baron, on that other "Great American Eclipse"
The longtime radio journalist took KSJ fellows behind the scenes of his book on the 19th century eclipse that drew a swarm of scientists to America’s western frontier. David Baron, sharing the backstory of his recent book, “American Eclipse.” (Photo by Magnus Bjerg.) David Baron’s first total solar eclipse sighting changed his life. “I was just seeing a sky I had never seen before,” he said of the February 1998 eclipse, which he watched from Aruba.
Marc Abrahams Talks Ig Nobels, Science Humor
Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, speaks to KSJ fellows about humor in science.
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