Disposable income meets cloning science
Category: Culture of science
I'll let the Boston Herald News tell the tale: A celebrity from the moment he bounded off an American Airlines...
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I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.
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January 28, 2009
Updike's essays, and the Virginia Woolf test
Category: Books
It was wonderful, for instance, to see Updike, beginning in his late fifties, set out to make himself a deeply informed writer on art, which he did; most of that work ended up in the New York Review of Books.
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Pfizer employee to new colleagues: Buckle up
Category: Pharma
Pharma giant Pfizer got bigger on Monday, purchasing Wyeth Pharamceuticals for $65 billion in one of the few big...
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January 27, 2009
Jascha smokes some Mozart
Category: Brains and minds
's Mozart's birthday. We've been indulging in some Don Giovanni here amid (but inside, protected from) the snow. But for multimedia instead of fireside consumption, I thought this effortlessly electric encore by Heifetz would serve nicely.
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Pfizer pays $2.3 billion off-label marketing fine
Category: Pharma
Close on the heels of Lilly's $1.42 billion penalty for off-label marketing comes the news that Pfizer paid out $2.3 billion to settle similar allegations.
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Updike down
Category: Books
'Tis a smaller world now. John Updike is dead of lung cancer. The end of Rabbit at Rest: "Well,...
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Your brain on football - it's not pretty
Category: Medicine
CNN has a fascinating and rather frightening story about the toll football (or the concussions acquired playing it) take on...
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Why Frank Rich links
Category: Journalism & media
The Neiman Journalism Lab ponders the question:. : Why has Rich embraced linking when his peers have not? "CThe...
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Twitter is f'in - or at least way -- cool
Category: Digital culture
I'm rapidly seeing that Twitter isn't all bad after all. I've little taste for it when used primarily as...
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January 25, 2009
"How We Decide" - the thinking person's "Blink"
Category: Books
This is a rare book -- a serious but seriously fun work about the complicated process of thinking that is bright, lucid, and lively while still being true to the science. "How We Decide" is the thinking person's "Blink."
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