Author: Nicolas Renier

  • 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…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This Month Natural Selections interviews Daniel Goldsmith, Summer Volunteer from Yeshiva University, in the Knight Laboratory of Biophysics. By Susan Russo How long have you been living in the New York area? I’ve lived in the New York area for most of my life. Where do you live? In Washington Heights. Which is your favorite…

  • Culture Corner

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    An Interview with Richard Torregrossa, Author of Terminal Life: A Suited Hero Novel and Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style By Bernie Langs  Several years ago, I was checking the blurbs of recommended articles and reviews indexed by the Arts & Letters Daily web site as I do every day. The site recommended a review…

  • For your consideration – Cannes Shakedown Edition

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    By Jim Keller It’s become a regular thing for me to take a bit of a hiatus after May’s Cannes Film Festival. This is largely because there simply isn’t much to write about in the Oscar world, but if I’m one hundred percent honest, it’s nice to have a bit of downtime as the summer months…

  • Life on a Roll

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