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Thursday, March 10 2011
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Philosopher-mechanic author Matthew Crawford will speak March 24
Photo by Robert
Adamo
Matthew Crawford, best-selling author of "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work," will discuss "The Case for Working with Your Hands" at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Crawford is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He also runs a motorcycle repair business. His talk is part of the university's National Affairs Series on Innovation, and is free and open to the public.
Human-monkey aging patterns not as different as believed, according to new research
A study published in Friday's issue of the journal Science debunks the long-held belief that humans have an aging advantage over other primates. Anne Bronikowski, associate professor at Iowa State University, was the demographer for the research team and thinks there are several important findings in the paper.
Iowa State engineer studies damage caused by New Zealand earthquake
Iowa State's Sri Sritharan is just back from New Zealand
where he studied buildings damaged by the February 22
earthquake. He was part of a team from the Engineering Research
Institute that is trying to learn more about earthquakes and
how to design buildings that resist earthquake damage.
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R. Bruce Thompson, 1941-2011
See Ames Laboratory statement.
See College of Engineering story.
ISU economists: Study shows Iowa's high marginal tax rates hinder labor productivity
Nobel Prize winning-chemist Richard Schrock will speak March 22
Richard Schrock, who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry,
will present "A Lifetime of Chemistry: Reflections of a
Nobel Laureate" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the
Memorial Union Sun Room. Schrock received the prize for his
work on metathesis, a process now widely used in the
development of pharmaceuticals and manufacture of advanced
plastic materials. His presentation is the 2011 Iowa State
Presidential Lectureship in Chemistry, and is free and open to
the public.
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Close look at Des Moines poverty rates show many poor pockets in city: ISU researcher
Official poverty numbers for the Des Moines metropolitan area show rates that are much lower than the rest of Iowa and better than nationwide numbers, but an ISU researcher has taken a closer look and he shows the numbers can be misleading.
Iowa State, Ames Lab researcher hunts for green catalysts
L. Keith Woo of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory
is looking for cleaner, greener and cheaper catalysts. Woo and
his research group are turning to biology for some ideas. And
they're developing high-throughput approaches to quickly
test a reaction using up to a hundred trillion different
catalysts.
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ISU historian edits book detailing first human space mission, which turns 50 this year
PBS' Gwen Ifill to speak March 31 as Smith Chair in Women and Politics
In the news
What do you mean I'm aging like a baboon?
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A new study shows human and monkey aging patterns aren't as different as the scientific community has believed. ISU Associate Professor Anne Bronikowski was the demographer for the research team, and worked with long-term census data from primatologists' field studies to develop mortality tables and fit models of increasing mortality.
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Are teen brains hardwired for hazard?
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that the teen brain is hardwired for hazard. Studies have found that the areas of the brain involved in social interaction and emotion mature at an earlier point than those that regulate behavior. One 2007 Iowa State University analysis surveyed more than 10,000 adolescents about what went into their decisions, including choices about their behavior.
Fighting the flu
National Science Foundation Discoveries
Each year, people everywhere prepare for flu season. Some will get the flu vaccine, some take vitamin supplements, some launch a vigorous handwashing campaign, while others take an entirely different approach: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Mei Hong, a chemist at Iowa State University, uses NMR to study a proton channel named M2, found on the surface of the influenza virus.