Michael S. Gazzaniga
Director, Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Gross
Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004)
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University
Danny Hillis
Co-chairman, Applied Minds
Daniel M. Kammen
Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
Christof Koch
Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, Caltech
Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, Origins Initiative, Arizona State University
Morten L. Kringelbach
Director, Hedonia: TrygFonden Research Group, University of Oxford and University of Aarhus
Steven Kyle
Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Robert S. Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor, M.I.T.
Lawrence Lessig
Professor, Harvard Law School
John P. Moore
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
M. Granger Morgan
Professor and Head of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Miguel Nicolelis
Co-director, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University
Martin Nowak
Director, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
Robert Palazzo
Provost and Professor of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego
Lisa Randall
Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Martin Rees
Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
John Reganold
Regents Professor of Soil Science, Washington State University
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Eugenie Scott
Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
Terry Sejnowski
Professor and Laboratory Head of Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Michael Snyder
Professor of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael E. Webber
Associate Director, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Texas at Austin
Steven Weinberg
Director, Theory Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979)
George M. Whitesides
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Nathan Wolfe
Director, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Senior Executive Adviser for Energy and Security, Booz Allen Hamilton
Anton Zeilinger
Professor of Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor, Harvard Law School
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Add CommentSciAm has come a long way since 1845 - and not all of it is good.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPlease SciAm - get back to your roots and concentrate on science, not pop, gossip and all the other crap.
A heartfelt thank you to the busy people on the Board of Advisers for their time.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI too would like more accuracy. You latest articles on peak oil of instance were so far off the facts it's sad. While there is no lack of energy, there is a serious lack of oil reserves. Just the fact that over the last decade only 1bbl for every 3+ bbl's used should give you a clue.
And the news items on this website are far worse with little detail, no links to find more and much wrong info.
On the matter of oil reserves: the author of the peak oil article, I believe, pointed out that estimates for certain fields have been repeatedly revised upward. Doubtless the concern for having reached or passed peak oil is a real and legitimate concern, but there is great uncertainty regarding the true figures for reserves. I do not mean to suggest that the matter of reserves is an unimportant issue - it clearly is of major importance and concern. The author of the peak oil article is suggesting, I believe, that we need to review the facts on what reserve picture is.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAs a MIT graduate '64 XXIB BS physics and history, I'd like to see support for the facts about toxicity from methanol in wines and aspartame.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOver 100 mg methanol impurity per liter wine becomes formaldehyde and then formic acid in humans -- co-factors for "morning after" hangovers -- folic acid protects most people: Rich Murray 2009.10.22
There is the same level of methanol from the 11% methanol part of the aspartame molecule in 2 L [ 6 cans ] aspartame beverages, as in 1 L dark wine or liquors.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/579335
Dermatitis. 2008; 19(3): E10-E11.
© 2008 American Contact Dermatitis Society
Formaldehyde, Aspartame, and Migraines:
A Possible Connection
Sharon E. Jacob; Sarah Stechschulte
Published: 09/17/2008
Abstract
Aspartame is a widely used artificial sweetener
that has been linked to pediatric and adolescent migraines.
Upon ingestion, aspartame is broken, converted, and oxidized into formaldehyde in various tissues.
We present the first case series of aspartame-associated
migraines related to clinically relevant positive reactions
to formaldehyde on patch testing.
formaldehyde, aspartame, and migraines, the first case series,
Sharon E Jacob-Soo, Sarah A Stechschulte, UCSD,
Dermatitis 2008 May: Rich Murray 2008.07.18
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.htm
Friday, July 18, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1553
consider co-factors (methanol, formaldehyde, and protective
folic acid), re UK FSA test of aspartame in candy bars on
50 reactors, Stephen L Atkin, Hull York Medical School:
Rich Murray 2009.09.29
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.htm
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1587
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
Get rid off the sort of populist street entertainment type of 'science' that of the ilk of Jesse seems to promote!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI agree with those who desire more science and less pop culture. Also, I wonder if sponsors like Shell Oil are coloring your content when it comes to the biggest challenge of all for science: Energy. There are many working technologies out there that need no development to implement immediately to get us off our dirty addiction to fossil fuels. One example, HHO. Hundreds of thousands of DIY world-wide have been using water to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water onboard their cars and trucks. Why aren't technologies like this not being explored and discussed within the pages of Scientific American?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think sci-am focuses too much on changing their web page layout and the pop media and not enough on interesting scientific articles.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWho comes up with the perspective perceptions of the topics?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCan anyone make these claims?
What if I have theories that do not support the purported findings?
How are articles submitted and accepted?
Brilliant research bro, love it.
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