11 Things I Learned Reading Every Last Word Of The AAAS Meeting Program Book
AAAS Program Book 2014 Susannah F. Locke The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society. It's the publisher of the journal Science, and it has a giant meeting every February in a giant conference center in the bowels of a giant city. I attended this year, lugging around the meeting's 176-page program book. But there’s too much going on to attend every session. So I then read every page of said book so that you don't have to. Here’s the goods: Researchers are using online search records to find medication interactions. Researchers are also monitoring residents of assisted living facilities by using a special floor with sensors in it. “Since 2007, at least three-dozen science festival initiatives have formed in the U.S. alone.” “The development of probability theory resulted from the earnest contemplation of problems...