Author: Nicolas Renier

  • Culture Corner: Chuck Berry and the American Songbook—An Appreciation

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    By Bernie Langs I saw Chuck Berry, the founder of the music genre of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, in concert in the midst of my life’s blur of the mid-to-late 1980s at a fairly small New York City concert venue. He was paired up that evening with Ronnie Wood, the second banana guitarist…

  • Life on a Roll

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    All photos contributed by Elodie Pauwels. http://elodiephoto.wordpress.com I arrived late at night for a short weekend in Winchester, England. I discovered the city the next morning. On my way downtown, there was an old cemetery, which could have been there for centuries. Further, there was no one by the arches of the cathedral—it actually had…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes. Part I: Alexis Carrel, 1912 Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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    By Joseph Luna If there were an epicenter for a fascination with the Nobel Prize, The Rockefeller University, with 24 such awards, would be it. For its size, the university has the greatest density of Nobel prizes of any place in the world. The big-picture factors that have led to such a prestigious legacy are…

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

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    By Jim Keller With the conclusion of last month’s Telluride Film Festival, it’s time to kick off our three-part “Ones to Watch” series. This year, I’m shaking things up a bit by beginning with the Best Actor race—primarily because there are about 44 men vying for five slots, currently more than in any other acting…

  • A One Day Jaunt: Whirlwind D.C. Trip on the Cheap

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    By Susan Russo A one-day trip to Washington D.C.? Are you crazy? No, I am just ultra-cheap. You won’t get to everything on your must-see list, but you can manage a lot with some planning. Maps of DC’s most popular tourist spots in what is called the “Federal District” are easily available on the Web.…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This Month Natural Selections interviews Danielle Little from the Brivanlou Laboratory. How long have you been living in the New York area?  47 years (all my life) I’ve been in New York. Where do you currently live? I live in the Bronx. Which is your favorite neighborhood? 167street Anderson Ave.When I was living around there…

  • Ten Years of Natural Selections

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    By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here is a comic republished from 2004. This month, the Natural Selections Editorial Board bids farewell to Daniel Briskin. We would like to thank him for his dedication and for helping Natural Selections to become what it is today. Danny…

  • Culture Corner: Summer Film Roundup

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    By Bernie Langs By way of introducing the highlights of my experiences with selected movies I watched in the summer of 2014, I am oddly reminded of the Roman Emperor Nero and the infamous popular image of him as the ruler who “fiddled while Rome burned.” The notion of Nero playing the lyre at a…

  • Princip of the Thing

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    By George Barany and Brent Hartzell GB is a Rockefeller alum (1977), BH holds a master’s degree (1994) in public policy from the University of Minnesota. For more puzzles and for the solution to this month’s puzzle, visit http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle Click here to download this month’s puzzle !

  • Leaving the Lab, but Still Thinking Science

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    By Mayla Hsu Barbara Ehrenreich graduated from The Rockefeller University (RU), Class of 1968, but never worked as a scientist. Instead, she became a journalist, best known for Nickel and Dimed, in which she documented the hardship of life working at a series of low-wage jobs. She has written nineteen books and numerous articles, on…

  • Paninis and Pupusas: A Jackson Heights Love Story

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    By Brianna Caszatt and A Gerald Martini In the months leading up to the World Cup, we kept reading headlines like “Panini Truck Heist in Brazil” or “Colombian Teacher Caught Stealing Students’ Paninis,” to which we thought: what the heck do sandwiches have to do with football? Then our Brazilian friend presented us with our…

  • Crickets: From Midnight Music to Midnight Snack?

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    By Jason Rothauser “And how much is that per cricket?” I ask. I’m standing in front of the reptile cages of a local Brooklyn pet store. “Ten cents a pop.” Sounds reasonable. “I’ll take forty.” In a minute or two, the clerk has wrapped up the insects in a large plastic bag, the same way…