Disposable income meets cloning science
Category: Culture of science
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I write 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. (Find clips here.)
I've also written three books, including Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years. Oliver Sacks found Reef Madness "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant." Check it out.
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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
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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