By Thomas Merritt, As a researcher who works on fruit flies, I often get asked how to get them out of someone’s kitchen. This happens to fly researchers often enough that we sit around at fly conferences (these actually exist) and complain about getting asked this question. Meanwhile, we watch … Continue reading
By Melissa Healy, If ever there were a hormone to spark intellectual excitement, it’s klotho. At the dawn of our lives, our blood brims with klotho. But as age and disease stiffen our joints and cloud our minds, klotho ebbs. People who exercise and remain spry into old age have … Continue reading
Duke University authorized the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue from the front of its chapel Saturday after students made very clear they don’t want the Confederate monument there anymore. Vincent Price, president of Duke University, said on the university website that he made the decision with “strong support of … Continue reading
August 19, 2017 By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week’s news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Farhad: Hello, Mike! How are things … Continue reading
Seattle’s Democratic mayor has joined others, including many Republicans, in calling for removal of the city’s statue of Vladimir Lenin. (AP Photo/Gary Stewart) There is a 7-ton statue of Vladimir Lenin in Seattle. It’s 16-feet tall, made of bronze and has resided in the city’s eclectic and very free-spirited Fremont neighborhood since … Continue reading
Duke University announced that it removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday after it had been vandalized. The university, located in Durham, N.C., said it removed the limestone depiction of Lee from Duke Chapel amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. A statue of … Continue reading
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University has removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee days after it was vandalized. The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness early Saturday morning from Duke Chapel amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. A statue of Lee was at … Continue reading
A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing at Auschwitz. (AP) First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist. Then … Continue reading
Alisa Kauffman, a New York City, dentist, makes house calls to homebound patients. (Photo by Don Hamerman) In the 1980s, when Alisa Kauffman was a young dentist starting her practice in New York City, her close friend’s father had a stroke. He had always taken good care of his teeth, … Continue reading
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses. At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.” Why? Because the horse bears … Continue reading