Month: June 2015
Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Here are three things to remember about Henry Clay Folger on his 158th birthday, June 18, 2015. One. The most astounding single fact about Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930) is that he made his way to the very top of two distinct lines of endeavor. From 1879 to 1928 he…
Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Here are three things to remember about Henry Clay Folger on his 158th birthday, June 18, 2015. One. The most astounding single fact about Henry Clay Folger (1857–1930) is that he made his way to the very top of two distinct lines of endeavor. From 1879 to 1928 he…
Guest post by Warwick Anderson We invited Warwick Anderson, author of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen, to comment on a study published last week in the journal Nature, covered in the Washington Post and elsewhere, about genetic resistance to the molecule that causes kuru and several other fatal brain diseases. The story…
Guest post by Warwick Anderson We invited Warwick Anderson, author of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen, to comment on a study published last week in the journal Nature, covered in the Washington Post and elsewhere, about genetic resistance to the molecule that causes kuru and several other fatal brain diseases. The story…
Guest post by Michele Callaghan As an editor, I like words. It is safe to say that I love them. But sometimes there are just too many of them. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Turning perfectly good verbs into nouns just so you can add a preposition, repeating ideas and even…
Guest post by Sara Palmer, PhD June is National Aphasia Awareness Month—the perfect time to celebrate people living with aphasia and the aphasia programs that help them, from traditional speech language therapy (offered by hospitals, outpatient clinics, and home health agencies) to long-term language recovery programs based in the community. Nearly 2 million Americans are…
Guest post by Sara Palmer, PhD June is National Aphasia Awareness Month—the perfect time to celebrate people living with aphasia and the aphasia programs that help them, from traditional speech language therapy (offered by hospitals, outpatient clinics, and home health agencies) to long-term language recovery programs based in the community. Nearly 2 million Americans are…
The long-anticipated fourth edition of the leading mammalogy textbook by George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, and Carey Krajewski is the featured book at this year’s Johns Hopkins University Press book display at the American Society of Mammalogists 2015 Annual Meeting. Mammalogy headlines a list of titles that cover every aspect of…
The long-anticipated fourth edition of the leading mammalogy textbook by George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, and Carey Krajewski is the featured book at this year’s Johns Hopkins University Press book display at the American Society of Mammalogists 2015 Annual Meeting. Mammalogy headlines a list of titles that cover every aspect of…
Guest Post by Kathy Ko Chin and Dr. Winston Tseng In 1985, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler’s landmark report, Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health, shined a light on some of the pervasive and concerning disparities in health and health care experienced by racial and ethnic minorities.…