Author: Audrey Goldfarb

  • Hitting the Paywall

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    by Daniel Briskin Approximately two years ago, in March 2011, The New York Times introduced their paywall, the digital barrier against accessing more than 20 articles per month without subscribing (subsequently, access has been further reduced to only ten articles per month for non-subscribers). Although the Times was not the first publication to limit access…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Sara Schaafsma, a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory of Neuroscience and Behavior.  Country of origin: The Netherlands.

  • Culture Desk Book review: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Interview: George Szirtes (translator of The Melancholy of Resistance)

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    by Bernie Langs After years of feasting on nonfiction books, I find myself binging on works of fiction these days, and most recently, of all things, Hungarian prose. Having read the German W.G. Sebald and the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, who both write with no paragraph breaks, I was not taken aback when I realized that…

  • For Your Consideration—Crystal Ball Edition Part II

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    by Jim Keller Admittedly, last month’s column was thrown together between health battles, and birthday and Oscar celebrations—oh wait, those last two were on the same day, no lie! Without further ado, I give you the remainder of a short list of films—some of which you might be hearing about for years to come as…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Mirror by Elodie Pauwels April 2013

  • BOOK REVIEW Entering an Unseen World: A Founding Laboratory and Origins of Modern Cell Biology 1910-1974, by Carol L. Moberg, The Rockefeller University Press, 2012

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    by Joseph Luna The birth of a scientific field often combines new technology with bold hypotheses, unexpected collaboration, and a healthy dose of luck. There’s also time, that ultimate arbiter of the significant, upon which a new field grows and matures, from puzzling first glimpses to textbook diagrams and beyond. Increasingly in today’s world, inhabited…

  • Culture Desk: Abstraction in Art and Music—Reviews of Various Recent Museum Exhibitions and a Concert at Carnegie Hall

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    by Bernie Langs The basic definition of abstraction, gleaned from the ubiquitous Internet encyclopedia, is “a process by which concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (‘real’ or ‘concrete’) concepts, first principles, or other methods. ‘An abstraction’ is the product of this process—a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all…

  • For Your Consideration–Crystal Ball Edition

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    by Jim Keller With February’s Academy Awards quickly becoming a distant memory, let’s gaze into the crystal ball and see what 2013 has in store. There, we can see shimmering particles slowly come together to create what will become concrete images, baring the faces of tomorrow’s contenders. What controversy awaits? What new names will become…

  • Directed Acts of Kindness: A Citizen’s Weapon Towards a Better Society

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    by Christina Pyrgaki The Wednesday before Nemo hit NYC and after a successful journal club meeting, which involved a combination of good science, brainy company, and fine liquor, I left the university with two friends and colleagues of mine at around 8 p.m. The three of us strolled in the cold evening all the way…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews De’Veatrice Bryant (DeeDee) who works for Restaurant Associates at the CRC Café. She has a Culinary Arts Degree in Professional/Commercial Cooking from Star Career Academy and she is a New Yorker, born and raised.