Author: Audrey Goldfarb

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Marisa Cerio, Laboratory Administrator in the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology & Epigenetics. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in New York? My whole life—thirty three years! 2. Where do you live? Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 3. Which is your favorite neighborhood? It’s not beautiful, but based…

  • Skulls and Specimens: The Mütter Museum is Weird and Worth It

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    by Claire Warriner A similar version of this article appeared in The Incubator In April, I found myself in Philadelphia as a guest at the wedding of two people I’d never met. In addition to stuffing myself with Crab Rangoon and avoiding eye contact with the groom’s mother, I visited the gruesomely fascinating Mütter Museum…

  • The Comic Strip

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    Contributed by Daniel Briskin “Understocked” reproduced from xkcd – a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.  xkcd.com My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don’t actually have different effects.  I trust their expertise, not because of the ‘biology’ part, but because of the ‘grad student’. July/August 2013  

  • CULTURE DESK — Book reviews: Inferno, by Dan Brown & The Inferno of Dante (translated by Robert Pinsky)

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    by Bernie Langs When I heard that best-selling author Dan Brown had written a book centering around a mystery involving Dante’s Inferno, I came up with a scheme to read the original Inferno section of Dante Alighieri’s famous poem, Commedia (which later became known as “The Divine Comedy”), and compare the two works for Natural…

  • Infographic: A World Map of Rockefeller University

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    by Alessia Deglincerti Ever wondered how international RU is? Take a look at the map below, the countries colored in black are all represented among the RU population (based on country of citizenship; students and employees with an academic appointment only, it does not include guests or visitors to the campus). The table provides the…

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch Vol. 1 Edition

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    by Jim Keller First, an apology to the one or two of you who read this column regularly and who don’t mind that it’s virtually devoid of science, for my hiatus since May. But luckily, I’ve returned in time to begin the first of a four part Ones to Watch series. As was the case…

  • Life on a Roll

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    All photos contributed by Elodie Pauwels, http://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com July/August 2013

  • A Spin through the Past: Early Centrifuges and Microtomes in Flexner Hall’s Historic Lab

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    by Claire Warriner When learning about the accomplishments of past scientists, it seems natural to focus on their moments of discovery. Less often told are the stories of the arduous processes by which those discoveries were made and the technology that made them possible. Rather than a few, once-in-a-lifetime eureka moments, science’s great legacy is…

  • Summer in the City

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    by Aileen Marshall New York City has been called the “Capital of the World.” There are so many exciting things to see and do here. Unfortunately, it can also be one of the most expensive cities to live in or visit. That makes it tough for those of us in the academic sector, who don’t…

  • Culture Corner Television Review: “Da Vinci’s Demons” (Starz network; Fridays at 9:00 p.m.)

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    by Bernie Langs Having seen the previews, I decided to watch the first episode of the British-exported television series “Da Vinci’s Demons” with the idea in mind of writing a scathing review of the show for its comic book depiction of one of the world’s greatest geniuses, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), hero of the Italian…

  • Stopping to Smell the Rhododendron

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    by Jessica Phippard A sense of calm overcomes me as I enter campus each morning, the street sounds fading out as the stresses of the morning commute melt away. It is the landscaping on campus that does this to me. Despite any anxieties about what the day may bring, the flowers and trees in sharp…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Leslie Church, Assistant Editor in the Communications and Public Affairs Office. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in New York? I have been living in New York City for a little over a year. 2. Where do you live? I live in the East…