Author: tobias

  • PDA Corner—2012 Postdoc Retreat

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    by Asma Hatoum At a quarter to six on a crisp September morning, eighty-five of us eager Rockefeller postdocs lined up at the main gate to board the buses that would whisk us out for the retreat. Along the way, the rising sun revealed clear blue skies—the forecast held to its promise. By eight-thirty, we…

  • Natural Confections

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    by Carly Gelfond For a food writer, fall can be a time of complicated emotions. Among the general population, fall is full of seasonal whimsy, all crunchy and leafy underfoot, smoke-scented, vested, and mittened. And to be sure, it is those things for food writers, too. Like normal people, we are susceptible to the irrepressible…

  • CULTURE DESK Reviews: Various Art Exhibitions and an Evening at Carnegie Hall

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    by Bernie Langs On a much too hot and humid Thursday in early October, I was determined to see as many top notch art shows in Manhattan as I could and succeeded beyond my expectations. I began the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the exhibition, “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”…

  • For Your Consideration—Ones to Watch Vol. 3 Edition

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    by Jim Keller In this final installment of the series, we take a look at the leading men. Not surprisingly, it’s a bit easier to gauge those that might fall within the Oscar wheelhouse—given that it’s later in the year and approaching crunch time. But who of these will have the gusto and the endurance…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, Postdoctoral Associate from the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience. Country of origin: Ireland.

  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Marxian Neuroeconomics

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    by Benjamin Campbell “Either the Devil has come amongst us having great power, or there is a causal explanation for a disease common to economics, science and art.” Christopher Caudwell, Studies in a Dying Culture

  • Sounds of Science: Can Music Help Bring Science into Pop Culture? An Experiment in Public Communication

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    by John LaCava With this short article, I’d like to re-introduce the campus community to a project I started a few years ago: The Sounds Of Science. In February 2010, I penned an article for Natural Selections introducing the project and participants at the time. We made our music, launched the website www.soundsofscience.net—and the project…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Nafplio, Greece, 2006 by Christina Pyrgaki November 2012

  • Halloween: A Celebration of Mortality

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    by Christina Pyrgaki I love Halloween, more so than any other holiday, and this is rather curious since Halloween is not celebrated in Greece, my home country. It was in 1993 when Tim Burton released The Nightmare Before Christmas that I first heard about Halloween and I fell in love with it! I have always…

  • Culture Desk: Exhibition Review: “Chinese Gardens: Pavilions, Studios, Retreats” At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through January 6, 2013

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    by Bernie Langs The great art historian, Lord Kenneth Clark, entitled two of his best essays, What is a Masterpiece? and Moments of Vision. If you would like to experience moments of greatly enhanced visual experience while gazing upon a trove of fabulous art, which boasts several masterpieces, head over to the Metropolitan Museum of…