Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
Sweating for a cause, nearly 700 students, faculty members and Elm City residents swarmed the New Haven Green on Sunday morning to participate in the fourth annual AIDS Walk in New Haven.
The event — a 5-kilometer walk through the city — is sponsored each year by the Yale chapter of AIDS Watch and is designed to raise funds for 10 local HIV...
“Ivy League Egg Donor Wanted.” Sound familiar? From the News to the New Haven Register, this and similar ads for egg donors have appeared in the pages of local newspapers, attempting to lure intelligent Yale women with sums ranging from $5,000 to $100,000. One Web site, offering $35,000 is looking for a “Genius Asian donor,” and describes the ideal match: “You...
The problem with owning an iPhone, perhaps the most advanced phone on the market, is that most people on campus seem to think it really does make you a tool. YCC President Rebecca Taber defends her iPhone by noting that she never even owned an iPod, so when her Razr died last year, she considered buying an iPod and a BlackBerry Pearl. But the iPhone turned out to satisfy...
How evil is Google? Harper’s Magazine recently commented on how Google’s environmentally-friendly policies really involve sucking up as much cheap electricity as possible, with little regard to how it is generated, as long as the location is close to a hydroelectric dam. Additionally, Google’s “server farms” bring little by way of employment for local towns and...
When Michael Koelle, director of undergraduate studies in the Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry department, came to Yale 10 years ago, there were twice as many MB&B majors as there were last year. His initial reaction: it was simple coincidence. Biology-oriented students, he assumed, were probably just drifting to other biology-related majors. But a departmental...
Try to make your mind go completely blank. Too difficult? That’s not surprising, at least according to Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. “If you can’t achieve this tabula rasa state after a few seconds, then it’s no use persisting: the longer and harder one tries, the more stubbornly cluttered the mind becomes,” she...
Procrastination is every Yalie’s favorite pastime. This week, I discovered what is undoubtedly the best way to procrastinate: Crayon Physics. The final non-free version of this game has not been released yet, but the free version will provide you with at least 20 minutes of pure bliss. While you can find video clips of the final game, Crayon Physics Pro, the ...
Yale School of Medicine will eliminate the required parental contribution for families making up to $100,000 annually beginning next year, Dean Robert Alpern announced Monday. The sweeping initiative aims to reduce student doctor debt for middle-income students and curb the attrition of medical-school graduates in lower-paying specialties. The policy — funded by a $1.1...
Kenneth Kidd, professor of genetics, psychiatry and ecology and evolutionary biology, chuckles softly as he explains that the “Asian flush” is actually rooted in science. “We all have East Asian friends who turn bright red with alcohol,” Kidd said. The reason for this “flushing reaction,” he explained, is that many Asians carry variants of genes regulating...
When it comes to cigarettes, Stanford Law School professor Robert L. Rabin says “thank you for not smoking.” In a talk at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity on Tuesday afternoon, Rabin — an expert on tobacco-regulation policy — discussed the relative success of governmental, legal and media-related policies in contributing to the decline over the past 40...
Not all breast cancers are created equal. New genetics research by Olufunmilayo Olopade, a professor in the Department of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, suggests that the type and severity of breast cancer are largely dependent on patients’ ethnicity. Olopade determined that genes belonging to African-American women often have mutations...