“There are some who take organic chemistry to get into a Ph.D. program or
prepare for a career in chemistry, but they’re relatively rare. Most of the
students are pre-med, and for a lot of them, organic chemistry is a
dream-shattering experience.”
It seems to me like the professor at the center of this story was done a grave
disservice by NYU , set up to fail
(though surely not intentionally on anybody’s part) and then abandoned.
posted 10/26/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The fact that Tebo 1 apparently didn’t face serious infection suggests that
whoever performed the amputation understood how to keep the wound, the surgical
tools, and their hands clean and understood that they needed to do so (which
puts 31,000-year-old hunter-gatherers ahead of European and American surgeons
just a century ago).”
posted 10/12/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The majority of long Covid patients — more than 75 percent, according to some
estimates — were never hospitalized for their original infection. For these
people, uncovering the reasons for their enduring illness is less
straightforward, though scientists have several leads.”
Marla Broadfoot ,
How long will it take to understand long Covid?
(Knowable Magazine ,
August 8, 2022 ,
via Ars Technica )
posted 10/8/2022 8:00pm ∞
“If there is any reason for hope in the growing epidemic of long
COVID , it is that some academic medical centers are taking
these patients seriously and tailoring treatment to them. Medicine’s history
with hard-to-identify chronic illnesses, particularly those that mainly affect
women, has not been a good one.”
Meghan O’Rourke ,
Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
(The Atlantic ,
April 2021 )
posted 3/28/2021 9:42pm ∞
“In a single round, the gesture had gone from being tangibly linked to the
concept of ‘nothing’ to being completely divorced from it.”