This is the grave of Jonas Salk. Born in 1914 in New York City to Jewish parents, Salk at first lived a pretty normal life for that time and class. His father was born in the U.S., his mom had immigrated from Russia and the...
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This is the future grave of B. Vithal Shetty. Yesterday, I wrote about what happens when you wander around cemeteries, seeing stories of interesting people. Well, sometimes you find yourself.
This is the grave of Walter Reed. Born in 1851 in Belroi, Virginia to a traveling Methodist minister, Reed largely grew up with his mother's family in North Carolina since.
This sure isn't alarming at all..... Suppose you wanted to do a study of diet and nutrition, with thousands of participants randomly assigned to follow one meal plan or another for years as their health was monitored? In the real world, studies like these are...
Q: Why do black babies and black mothers die at rates far higher than white babies and white mothers? A: Because black lives do not matter to white people. From.
A significant internal problem for the left is that the term "neoliberalism" is used as an epithet that now means "anything Democrats do that I don't like." This is a.
I have never understood the idea of women putting themselves through extreme pain in childbirth so they could feel "natural." Now, I've never been through childbirth nor do I have children so maybe you can I don't know what I'm talking about. But what other...
What's the point of looking into old historical texts if not to explore texts about surgery? Thus, Gutenberg presents us with David Yandell's 1890 treatise, Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky: A.
Last week, we all got a refresher on the problems with capitalist markets in pharmaceuticals. Martin Skhreli raised the cost of an HIV drug by 5000 percent, causing an outrage.
Sure Martin Shkreli is human scum. But as a capitalist, isn't he doing what he is supposed to be doing? The goal is to make money. Anything getting in the way of that is irresponsible to that singular goal. So why shouldn't he force people...
The worst person in the entire world may well be the pharmaceutical capitalist Martin Shkreli. Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a.
Here's some interesting newly available books on and about the Civil War from the 19th and early 20th centuries. They include Pain and Anaesthetics: An Essay, from 1862, by Valentine.