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Photos: Siemens Foundation High School Science Fair

MIT hosted the regional finals of the Siemens Foundation's high school science fair on November 11-12, 2011.

By MIKE SPENCER | November 16, 2011

MIT hosted the regional finals of the Siemens Foundation's high school science fair on November 11-12, 2011.

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Extreme Science Fair
When I met them, Julia Crowley-Farenga and Patrick Loftus were hanging out in front of their science project, "Morphological Classification of Post-Starburst Galaxies."
Haacke and Piene at MIT
"Hans Haacke 1967" at MIT's List Visual Arts Center is a science museum presentation with the educational explanation stripped away, leaving just wonder.
The cost of open courseware
MIT's announcement last month of a new online certification program made national news.
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Extreme Science Fair
When I met them, Julia Crowley-Farenga and Patrick Loftus were hanging out in front of their science project, "Morphological Classification of Post-Starburst Galaxies."
Haacke and Piene at MIT
"Hans Haacke 1967" at MIT's List Visual Arts Center is a science museum presentation with the educational explanation stripped away, leaving just wonder.
The cost of open courseware
MIT's announcement last month of a new online certification program made national news.
You gotta fight for your right
There are a lot of colleges in Boston, and they all have a lot of parties. I spent the semester trying to chronicle them for the purpose of science.
Law & Disorder: The Best of Last Semester's Campus Crime Logs
Incident logs available online and/or at campus police stations display laundry lists of amateur-hour escapades and bike/backpack/wallet/gadget thefts. Here are some amusing, singular shenanigans and trends from last semester culled from public records
An evangelical chemist on faith and science
Chemistry professor Troy van Voorhis is a bit of an anomaly, an evangelical Christian — by definition, though not necessarily by social or political affiliation, as he is quick to note — working at that high church of science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Will high-tech steal Central Square's gritty soul?
A decade from now, the east end of Central Square will look nothing like the west.
Review: Area Four
Area Four's Web site describes it as "Coffee, Bakery, Bar, Oven."
Review: Losing Control
Bostonians have celebrated the city's rebirth as a shooting location for filmmakers. Had they endured Valerie Weiss's locally made Losing Control , I suspect most would welcome another molasses disaster.
Berenice Abbott's miracle of science
Like Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott was inventing abstract photography. She combined Surrealism and a romance with modernity.
Old trickster
On New Year’s Day 1980, telegrams sent from Utah arrived at the New York Times and the Daily News announcing that 50-year-old media hoaxter Alan Abel had suffered a heart attack at a ski resort near Orem, Utah. He left behind a wife, Jeanne, and daughter, Jennifer.
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