Notebook

Science Future for March 12, 2011

March 15 Learn how brain-immune battles may lead to diseases like Alzheimer’s. In Portland, Ore. Go to www.omsi.edu/events March 15–27The 19th annual Environmental Film Festival screens at venues across Washington, D.C. See www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org March 21Join science-minded chefs in exploring experimental gastronomy in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org/Events March 25–July 6In Los Angeles, view Small […]

Science Past from the issue of February 25, 1961

TRAFFIC CONGESTION SEEN AS FUTURE SPACE PROBLEM— Traffic congestion may be one of the most serious problems man may have to face when he starts commuting regularly from earth to outer space. This new frontier gradually is becoming cluttered with earth-launched orbiting vehicles and other debris.… [A]stronomical observatories, weather, TV and other communication satellites as […]

Science Future for February 26, 2011

February 28 Learn about the good and bad of fat tissue at an afternoon symposium in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org/events March 7 At the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a geneticist describes efforts to track humanity’s migratory routes with DNA. See www.hmns.org March 11–12 Dig into the past at the Milwaukee Archaeology Fair. […]

Science Future for February 12, 2011

February 15Discuss controversy over nonnative species at the University of Minnesota’s natural history museum happy hour. See www.bellmuseum.org February 17Author Sam Kean regales New York City with tales of the periodic table. Go to www.nyas.org February 17Cybersecurity experts address hazards of the digital age at Chicago’s Northwestern University. See http://c2st.org

Science Past for February 11, 1961

RELIEVE ARTHRITIC JOINTS — Chronically inflamed arthritic joints can be relieved, but not cured, by injecting cortisone-related steroids, or hormone drugs, directly into the joint. Repeated injections, up to 142 times in one case, had no apparently harmful effect, three doctors report in the Bulletin of Rheumatic Diseases, Jan., 1961. Some 4,000 patients at the […]

Science Future for January 29, 2011

February 11 – 13 Explore geology at the 60th Annual Agate and Mineral Show at Portland, Oregon’s science museum. See www.omsi.edu February 13 Boston’s Museum of Science officially reopens its planetarium with a show about exoplanets. Go to www.mos.org February 14 Savor a “miracle fruit” berry that deceives taste buds, in a butterfly rain forest […]

Science Past from the issue of January 28, 1961

SEE ATOMIC WASTE USE IN SALT WATER CONVERSION — Radioactive waste products from atomic plants may soon be a source of energy for converting salt water to fresh water. This use could help solve the problem of disposing of highly radioactive material, and also help combat the growing water shortage in the United States…. The […]

Science Past from issue of January 14, 1961

MAN-MADE DIAMONDS ONE-CARAT SIZE PRODUCED — Large, man-made diamonds, more than a carat in size, have been produced for the first time. The diamonds are dark in color and cannot now be used for industrial purposes because of structural imperfections. They were made at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N. Y., where the first […]

Science Future for January 15, 2011

January 22 Tweens work with engineers in Boise, Idaho, to design cities. See www.futurecityidaho.org January 26 Science historian Steven Shapin discusses ancient and modern concepts of food science, in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org January 26 Raise a glass to the science of cocktails at San Francisco’s Exploratorium fundraiser. Go to www.exploratorium.edu

Science Past from the issue of December 31, 1960

“TAKING IT EASY” IS BAD FOR BUSINESS EXECUTIVES — Physicians should not always tell worried, nervous business executives to “take it easy,” [said] Dr. Gerald Gordon…. If the emotions were not released, they would be turned inward and result in “suicide through stress diseases like heart disorders,” [he] said…. The basic emotions of pain, hunger, […]

Science Future for January 1, 2011

January 3 – 4The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks. Look east and up between midnight and dawn. Visit www.seasky.org/sky.html for more information. January 8 Test engineering skills in a LEGO Building Challenge in Portland, Ore. See www.omsi.edu January 11 – 20 Preschoolers experiment with the rainbow’s colors at Phoenix’s Arizona Science Center. See www.azscience.org

Science Future for December 18, 2010

December 26 Schenectady Museum in New York explores why bikes stand up. See www.schenectadymuseum.org December 27 Author John Monahan signs copies of They Called Me Mad at the National Air and Space Museum. See www.nasm.si.edu January 10 Deadline to submit original wake-up music for NASA’s final space shuttle mission. Go to https://songcontest.nasa.gov