Author: Qiong Wang

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes.

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    Part XVI: David Baltimore, 1975 Prize in Physiology or Medicine. By Joseph Luna On June 19th 1946, a captive rhesus monkey in the Mengo district near the town of Entebbe, Uganda developed unexplained hind-limb paralysis. British and American scientists, part of the local Yellow Fever Research Institute, financed in part by The Rockefeller Foundation, soon…

  • Martin Shkreli: Disease or Symptom?

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    By Sarala Kal Hillary Clinton said “he was like the worst bad date you can imagine,” and many others call him the villain of the pharmaceutical industry. Thirty-two-year-old Martin Shkreli is a Brooklyn native, whose placement in a high school program for gifted youth serendipitously landed him an internship on Wall Street at the ripe…

  • Quotable Quote

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    When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign is Solitude.    (William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)

  • CULTURE CORNER

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    Learning Lessons from Multi-Volume Series By Bernie Langs There is no challenge in reading more rigorous than the study, over several years, of a series of books by a single author on one subject. From about 1983 through the late 1990s, I read four series, two of which I did not complete and two of…

  • New York State Of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Vadim Sherman, Supervisor of High Energy Physics Instrument Shop Interview by Guadalupe Astorga How long have you been living in the New York area?  Twenty-nine years. Where do you currently live?  Which is your favorite neighborhood? I live in south Brooklyn, Sheepshead Bay. This area is not far from the ocean, Manhattan Beach,…

  • Clown Car

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    By George Barany and Friends This politically themed puzzle comes to you from a consortium of progressively-minded friends of Rockefeller alum (1977) George Barany, who is currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.  For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to its answer, visit here.   More Barany and Friends…

  • Life on a Roll

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    By Qiong Wang The winter of Beijing’s old town is magnetic, both day and night, especially during the lunar new year season. Walking in the hutongs (narrow alleys), every brick and stone has an engaging story to tell. The depth and richness of its culture and history is more than I could ever comprehend even…

  • Oh My Aching Head

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    By Aileen Marshall You have probably heard the term concussion thrown about in the news lately, as well as in ads for the recent movie with the title. With all the talk, should one be worried about playing contact sports themselves or for their favorite professional athletes? It turns out there is not much actually…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part XV: Christian de Duve, 1974 Prize in Physiology or Medicine. By Joseph Luna In his two-volume book A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, Christian de Duve vividly describes a most hostile setting, where “everywhere we look are scenes of destruction: maimed molecules of various kinds, shapeless debris, half-recognizable pieces of bacteria and viruses,…

  • Wasting Our Food

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    By Guadalupe Astorga More than 40% of the food in the United States ends up in the trash can. This is huge, and includes sea-food, meat, cereals fruits and vegetables, as well as dairy products. Surprisingly, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that for all categories, food waste is not primarily the result of…