Using Culture Change to Prevent Domestic Violence in the NFL
During his amazing talk on the epidemiology of violence at Dent the Future 2014, Dr. Gary Slutkin said (and I paraphrase) that one of the key determining factors in whether an individual will commit a violent act is whether or not that person thinks their peer group will find the violent act acceptable. Slutkin's work is showing that violence spreads just like an epidemic, with cultural attitudes about violent behavior as the key vector for predicting when and where violence will occur.
Dark Matter: Mapping the Unseen Universe
Just as 17th century microbiology pioneer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used his homemade microscope to view the previously unseen world of microbes, scientists today are creating a map of the dark matter in the universe; applying computer models to the gravitational forces impacting the stuff that we can observe directly to theorize about the nature of what we cannot.
New Brain-Training Apps Reveal Top Skills in Different Professions
The Wall Street Journal reports that data gathered from brain training apps like London-based Brainbow Ltd.'s "Peak" (free to $34.99 / year on the App Store) can tell us a lot about how brains perform
Denter of the Week: Ellen Petry Leanse
Each week from now through December, we’ll pose several short questions to a member of the Dent family and share their answers with you. This week’s featured Denter is Ellen Petry Leanse, a Strategist, Advisor, & Coach at Work in Progress Consulting. She tweets under the handle @chep2m.
Ask a Simple Question...Dent the Universe
Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recently sat down with NPR to talk about how asking simple questions can lead to world-changing discoveries. You can listen to the entire interview here.
A New Take on a Centuries-Old Dent in Microbiology
esterday, we looked at modern day microbiologists who are looking to the flora within the human body as a source for new methods of killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Today, we travel back to 1647 and the birth of microbiology with the New York Times.
Finding New Antibiotics in Unlikely Places
With the rise of so-called superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to most antibiotics, humanity is in a race against time to find new ways of killing potentially deadly microorganisms. Some scientists think that looking to our own biomes may be a great place to find new ways of killing off unwelcome bacteria:
Dent New York Dinner: Makerbot and Fitzcarraldo
Our third Dent Dinner, hosted in partnership with Buck, was an absolute blast. The evening began with Denters getting picked up around Manhattan and Brooklyn by drivers in an assortment of cool 4G-LTE hotspot equipped vehicles (from Buick), and being whisked to Makerbot's impressive headquarters at One Metro Center.
Stem Cells Still Have Promise to Dent Mortality, but Not Just Yet
Much has been made about the promise of using human stem cells to regenerate damaged organs; but at this point, the research is taking incremental steps forward. Revolutionary leaps aren't here just yet:
How Will Apple Dent the Universe Next?
Apple Inc. keeps disrupting industry after industry; and it looks as though payments at point of sale are next. Apple is hoping that their repository of consumer credit card information and their fingerprint reading technology will make them a natural leader in this category: