We’ve sunk to new depths. Disguised as saviors for elephants, we’ve again vented our killer instincts. This time in Central Park. “Ivory is Destroyed to Save Elephants,” read The New York Times headline on Aug. 3rd. This wasn’t the first such event. The last was also in Central Park in December 2015, and in 2013 [...]
My last blog, “Wrapping Up My Memoir,” announced my memoir in its final stages. Reconciling my science career with the background of my artistic family is an important theme in the memoir. Collecting Inuit art was an activity, apart from the science itself, in which I expressed my bent for art, which is represented in [...]
Please forgive me, I’m thinking aloud as I’m whittling my way, tortuously, to some take-home messages to come. Here’s the problem: I finished the sixth version of my memoir a few days ago, and within an hour of putting the last period on the final page I started listing all the relevant ideas and events [...]
By Andrea Ford SCOPE, Published by Standford Medicine: The review highlights the protagonist's passion, which reflects Joram Piatigorsky's passion, for basic science research as a means to expanding our knowledge and sparking scientific breakthroughs.
By Joel Shurkin, Science Writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: What possesses a respected, retired scientist to take on the agonizing task of writing a novel and fighting to get it published? Author Joram Piatigorsky, an emeritus scientist from the National Institute of Health’s National Eye Institute, says quite simply that he had something important to say.
Not long ago, having lunch with colleagues – all known scientists – I brought up our pervasive world of television, especially the deluge of serials that can be streamed. There’s Breaking Bad – riveting, and The Wire – amazing, the drug world of Baltimore seen through a prism, and The House of Cards – oh [...]
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