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'My father's advice when I left Canada for New York was simple: "Never underestimate the other person's insecurity." This was excellent counsel, and what trouble I would get into came mostly from forgetting it.'
- Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate.

"Oppenheimer’s son Peter refused a formal interview, so Sherwin brought his family to the Pecos Wilderness near Santa Fe, saddled up a horse and rode to the Oppenheimers’ rustic cabin, wrangling a chance to talk to the scientist’s son as the two men built a fence. “Marty never thought he was a great interviewer,” said Susan Sherwin, who accompanied him on many research trips, and survives him. But he had a knack for connecting with people.

(A 1963 portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of the biography “American Prometheus” and a new film based on the book.Credit...Eddie Adams/Associated Press)"

nytimes.com/2023/07/10/books/o

At the Brooklyn Museum:

"part of RAQQA CERAMICS
Mohamad Hafez born Syria, 1984, lives America
Damascene Athan, 7, 2017
Mixed media, plaster, pigment, found objects, audio recording
Gift of the Barjeel Art Foundation, 2018.40a-b
Although Syria was a safe haven for Circassian refugees from Russia in the late nineteenth century, with the start of the civil war in 2011, Syrians fled the country to seek refuge elsewhere. In this work, Mohamad Hafez draws attention to Damascus, the capital of Syria and his hometown until the civil war began. An audio recording made by the artist during his last visit before the crisis captures the peaceful sounds of the city, including a call to prayer (athan) from the city's Great Mosque, children playing, and people conversing in a café. Hafez repurposed small objects in an ornate frame that is similar to those he was familiar with from his life in Syria. A surveillance camera and a secret service vehicle parked in front of houses draw attention to the danger looming over the city and the tensions between civilians and the Syrian regime.
• Provenance: Gift of the Barjeel Art Foundation, 2018."

“The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”
Raymond Chandler, in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler.

Immunological tourism with @mucida & I can confirm that @Plasmacellguy is not an AI generated bot (or a very convincing one).

Thanks to Delta & 4th of July travel chaos we lived through an extended remix of No Sleep Till Brooklyn (in Logan version). But great to be back.

My latest Clinical Pipeline column for Nature Medicine: second generation anti-CD40L drugs for . A really cool story of deciphering the biology of adverse effects.

nature.com/articles/d41591-023

Sorcery!

"Thousands of genes were simultaneously mapped in intact cells & tissues at molecular resolution, revealing the regulatory principles that specify the location and efficiency of protein production for functionally relevant gene programs across different cell types & tissue regions"

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

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