Issue: 2012 July 9
Citizen science: Thousands tested their ‘gut’ sense for numbers
July 9, 2012
A first-of-its-kind study using the World Wide Web to collect data from more than 10,000 study subjects ages 11 to 85 found that humans’ inborn “number sense” improves during school years, declines during old age and remains linked throughout the entire lifespan to academic mathematics achievement. The study, led by psychologist Justin Halberda of The Johns […]
Next front in world AIDS battle: Stretching use of anti-HIV drugs
July 9, 2012
A Johns Hopkins expert in the drug treatment of HIV disease and AIDS is spearheading an international effort to radically shift the manufacturing and prescribing of combination therapies widely credited in the last decade for keeping the disease in check for 8 million of the 34 million infected people worldwide. “We can do more with less […]
Shakespeare returns to the Meadow at Evergreen Museum
July 9, 2012
Shakespeare returns to the Meadow at Evergreen Museum & Library this summer, when The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory presents two of the Bard’s works in a monthlong series of performances that begins on Friday, July 20. Love’s Labour’s Lost is directed by the troupe’s artistic director, Tom Delise, who promises “crackling dialogue that goes off like […]