Cicadas to Swarm Again in 2013
Animals have developed a wide variety of defensive strategies to avoid being eaten by predators. Some of these techniques, such as camouflage, decrease the organism’s chance of being spotted by a predator. Others, such as aggregation, deter predators from attacking. The most dramatic of defenses is predator satiation, in which...
Interdisciplinary Studies: Autoclave
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In a World with Free Information, He with the Biggest Computer Wins
Jaron Lanier, introduced as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, presented on his book, Who Owns the Future?, in Spanos Auditoriuim on Friday, May 3rd, 2013. Through his book on futuristic economics, Lanier hopes to open “a space of possibility” to consider the oncoming problems...
The Influence of Free Behavior and Natural Scenes on Visual Physiology
On April 17th, J. Michael Hasse, a PEMM Graduate Student in the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology at the Geisel School of Medicine, gave a presentation at DHMC on his current research project. His research group in Dr. Farran Briggs lab collaborates with Thayer Professor Solomon Diamond and several undergraduates....
Artificial Skin that Feels
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology recently developed a revolutionary form of nanowire technology that enables artificial surfaces to detect mechanical pressure at the same level of sensitivity as would a human finger. Previous attempts to create an artificial sense of touch have relied largely on...
Pathways from Pathology to Peace: The Neuroscience of Self-Regulation
Dr. Mardi Crane-Godrea, as assistant professor in the department ofMicrobiology and Immunology at Dartmouth College and Peter Payne, a Qigong teacher, spoke at DHMC on April 26th. Both have personal interests in the concept of conscious self-regulation and the positive health effects it has. A number of activities are associated...
The Role of Divergent Sexual Selection in Speciation
On April 19, Rebecca Safran, a professor and researcher at University of Colorado at Boulder, presented in the Life Sciences Center at Dartmouth College on her research involving sexual selection and speciation. As a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist, Safran works to better understand how individual behavior and population patterns might...
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