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Birds everywhere

Birds everywhere

October 27, 2014

“I’m staggered by the diversity still,” said Maude Baldwin, looking into the display cases along the walls of the balcony in the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Great Mammal Hall.

Inside are not mammals, but birds: some 750 specimens, cleaned and brightly lit, displayed in all their variety and splendor.

There are rails and wrens, hummingbirds and hawks, parrots and plovers, representatives of more than 180 families covering nearly all the world’s bird diversity. “Birds of the World,” a permanent exhibit, opened in September after months of design. It replaces...

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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects

October 27, 2014
High-profile advances have injected an air of excitement into the study of the brain, opening opportunities for scientists with a knack for technology development, programming, and engineering.

Eyes on the Complement System at the Third International Biennial Symposium on AMD 

October 27, 2014

Drawing nearly 250 clinicians, researchers, trainees, and industry representatives from around the world, the Third International Biennial Symposium on AMD, which was held October 24–25, 2014 and co-chaired by Chief and Chair of Ophthalmology, Joan Miller, MD, FARVO, and AMD Center of Excellence co-directors Patricia D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO and Ivana Kim, MD, had special significance because it followed the 2014 António Champalimaud Vision Award, which recognized the development of antiangiogenic therapies for AMD and other retinal diseases. Five members of the HMS Department of...

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E.U. Greenhouse Gas Deal Falls Short of Expectations

October 24, 2014

[The New York Times ]...The deal requires a 40 percent cut in emissions from levels in 1990, a period when carbon pollution from European coal plants was at high levels. In the United States, President Obama is pushing policies to cut carbon pollution by 17 percent from levels in 2005, a year in which carbon pollution was much lower, according to Robert N. Stavins of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. The European Union deal could still top that, but probably by only a few percentage points using...

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