Jeffrey Flier
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.
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What Causes a Mysterious Paralysis in Children? Researchers Find Viral Clues
In one study, nearly 70 percent of children with the disease had antibodies to common enteroviruses that usually produce mild effects but can sometimes cause neurological problems.
Jeffrey Flier
What Causes a Mysterious Paralysis in Children? Researchers Find Viral Clues - The New York Times
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Giant toad looks and acts like a venomous snake to scare off predators
The Congolese giant toad looks like the head of a Gaboon viper, and it even hisses like a snake when approached – all to scare off potential predators
‘There Is No Hope’: Crisis Pushes Haiti to Brink of Collapse
Haitians say the violence and economic stagnation stemming from a clash between the president and the opposition are worse than anything they have ever experienced.
Rich Like Me: How Assortative Mating Is Driving Income Inequality
It may be useful to open this topic with an anecdote. Some ten years ago, I found myself in an after-dinner conversation, lubricated by wine, with an American who had been educated at an Ivy League college and was then teaching in Europe. As our...
Jeffrey Flier
Rich Like Me: How Assortative Mating Is Driving Income Inequality - “About one-third of the inequality increase in the United States between 1967 and 2007 can be explained by assortative mating”
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Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
Emmanuel Saez, a leading architect of the “wealth tax” plans advocated by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, outlined his proposals at the PIIE co...
Elijah Cummings, Powerful Democrat Who Investigated Trump, Dies at 68
A son of sharecroppers, he fought tirelessly for his hometown, Baltimore, and became a key figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
Top ALK expert and cancer drug researcher Alice Shaw bids adieu to academia, hello to Novartis
Jay Bradner has recruited a marquee oncology drug researcher into the ranks of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. Alice Shaw is jumping from prestigious posts intertwined through Mass General, Harvard and Dana-Farber to take the lead...
Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President
If President Trump doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office.
Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking
In five preregistered studies, we assess people’s tendency to believe “kids these days” are deficient relative to those of previous generations. Across three traits, American adults ( N =3,458; M age = 33-51 years) believe today’s youth are in...
Surprising study shows reduced neuronal activity extends life
The discovery was so surprising that it’s taken two years to be published because of how much additional data the scientists reviewing the study requested.
Jeffrey Flier
Surprising study shows reduced neuronal activity extends life - STAT - Yankner is an extremely careful scientist, so this finding must be taken seriously (unlike lots of other work in this field).
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Is it time to unlearn race? Thomas Chatterton Williams says yes
The author and critic discusses why we should move away from race categories defined ‘using plantation logic’ – and suggests ‘retiring from race’
Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die
Repeated studies on a health bogeyman help explain wider problems with food research.
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Jeffrey Flier
If I wanted to write about the “diet soda myth”, I could only hope to do so as well as @aaronecarroll does here. Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die - The New York Times
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The Dangerous Dream of Dismantling Human Hierarchies
It is an idea that has always united radicals, from the sans-culottes of the French Revolution to current student activists at the University of Missouri: they have all detested the scourge of social hierarchy, the peculiar fact that some people...
Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89
A prolific author, he contended that literary giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka stood above writers admired by feminists, Marxists, “multiculturalists” and others.
A band saw, a drill press and $2.3 million. College celebrates largest donation ever as 'transformative'
In an era when the mega-rich have given flashy, enormous donations to higher education like Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University, Cerritos College is beaming with pride over the largest donation ever gifted to the community...
'The Rise of Jordan Peterson'—A Review
Given today’s downward cultural spiral, it’s disturbing but not surprising that the makers of a thoughtful new documentary about Jordan Peterson are having a hard time finding somewhere to show their film. Many mainstream and independent cinemas...
How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race
“Self-Portrait in Black and White,” by Thomas Chatterton Williams, is the author’s searching account about what it means to embrace a racial identity — and then to cast it off.
Patients Eligible For Charity Care Instead Get Big Bills
Nonprofit hospitals admit they sent $2.7 billion in bills over the course of a year to patients who probably qualified for free or discounted care.
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort
The video was shown at a conference attended by Donald Trump Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They said they did not see it.