Sublime

In the end they estimated that the “nasty pest,” as they called it, caused at least an additional seven respiratory and seventeen cardiovascular deaths per year for every 100,000 adults in the affected counties. This translated into roughly 21,000 additional deaths per year—a staggeringly high number. The study team found no relationship between as

In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of

The Valley’s venture investors were typically Boston merchant princes, men such as Israel Thorndike, S. A. Eliot, Samuel Cabot, Francis Stanton, and Harrison Gray Otis. Edmund Dwight, a Morgan cousin on his mother’s side, wasn’t in the same financial stratum as a Cabot, but gained access through his work at the law firm of Fisher Ames, the old Mass

In 1906, George Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma first appeared on the London stage. The play concerns a physician, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who’s discovered a cure for tuberculosis. Ridgeon’s dilemma is that he has a limited supply of the medication and a small staff to administer it. He can treat only ten patients at a time and so must decide whos

Rather let it be named from the fishes that swim in it, the wild fowl or quadrupeds which frequent it, the wild flowers which grow by its shores, or some wild man or child the thread of whose history is interwoven with its own; not from him who could show no title to it but the deed which a like-minded neighbor or legislature gave him—him who thoug

But the humans have her in their grip, and she’ll never get free again.

The “normal condition of existence” interested Rudolf Virchow as much as the abnormal. He believed, and time has vindicated him, that it is by the maintenance, or restoration, of equity between the basic units of life and their surroundings that health is to be most successfully nurtured, whether of the individual or the entire organism.