Author: Nicolas Renier

  • 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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          Photos contributed by Elodie Pauwels Tea Time   Choice  

  • An Extraordinary Early American in Europe

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    By Susan Russo Ira Aldridge was born in New York in 1807 to free black parents: Daniel, a clerk and preacher, and Luranah Aldridge. Ira was schooled at home until 1820, when at the age of 13, he was enrolled in the African Free School Number Two. In the 1820s in New York City William…

  • World Cup 2014: Enough Info to Get by in Conversation

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    By Brianna Caszatt & A Gerald Martini, football masterminds  Temperatures are rising and flowers are in bloom: summer is practically here. And for one month this summer, people around the globe will be riveted to their screens watching all the drama unfold in Brazil at the 2014 World Cup—the football (yes football, but soccer if…

  • Culture Corner – The “Exotic Foreign” of Wes Anderson and Haruki Murakami

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    By Bernie Langs There is much made in some classical and modern philosophies of the concept and ambiguity of what is termed “the other.” In addition, one can find obscure musings on the idea of “the stranger” from the pens of philosophers as far afield in time and thinking as Plato and Camus. I’ve been…

  • Life on a Roll

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          Photos contributed by Elodie Pauwels (http://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com)

  • Covert Operations

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    By George Barany and Kurtis Scaletta GB is a Rockefeller alum (1977) and KS is an author of children’s books. For more puzzles, visit http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle. The solution for this specific puzzle is found at http://tinyurl.com/covertoperationsol, and a detailed explanation will be available at the beginning of August. Click here for this month’s puzzle!

  • New York State of Mind

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    To celebrate 10 years of Natural Selections, this month we are reprinting an interview with Zach Veilleux, Executive Director of Communica- tions and Public Affairs. Country of origin: USA. The original interview was published in the April 2004 issue. How long have you been living in New York City? I moved to the city in…

  • Puerto Rico in March – Summer at the tip of Winter

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    By Natalia Ketaren Puerto Rico, “the rich port,” is an unincorporated territory of the United States. To us travellers from the US, that means that the currency is in dollars, our cell phones work and we need only a valid US license to travel there. San Juan is the capital. It is one of the…

  • Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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    By Aileen Marshall It’s springtime in New York, and that means the start of baseball season. There is still hope in the air for the Mets, and great expectations for the Yankees, the two New York teams. Baseball is known as the “Great American Game,” illustrated by a commercial from about 30 years ago, which…