I’ve got a stack of new books that I want to get to this fall, although it’s not going to be easy. If your interests run in the same currents, you may be interested in some of them…
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If you live in the New Haven area, I hope you’ll consider joining me tomorrow at 5 pm for a talk at the Yale Medical School about my book Soul Made Flesh.
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Continue reading “Okay, It’s Not A Nobel, But It’s Still Nice”
This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology was announced this morning. Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren won for discovering that ulcers can be caused not by stress or genes but by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (shown here). As my fellow Corantean, Derek Lowe, observes, this story follows the classic arc from, “You’re completely bonkers” to “You’re going to Stockholm.” But it also illustrates a point that I madewhen last year’s Nobelists were announced: it demonstrates how intimately woven evolutionary biology is becoming with medicine.