Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 644 In the brief span between 1846 and 1867, two discoveries swept away these two quandaries that had haunted surgery, thus allowing cancer surgeons to revisit the bold procedures that Hunter had tried to perfect in London. The first of these discoveries, anesthesia, was publicly demonstrated in 1846 in a packed surgical … Read more
Number of words: 195 The proximity to medicine paid off. Subbarao made friends and connections at the hospital and switched to a day job as a researcher in the Division of Biochemistry. His initial project involved purifying molecules out of living cells, dissecting them chemically to determine their compositions— in essence, performing a biochemical “autopsy” … Read more
Number of words: 157 The two tenets might have seemed simplistic, but they allowed Virchow to propose a crucially important hypothesis about the nature of human growth. If cells only arose from other cells, then growth could occur in only two ways: either by increasing cell numbers or by increasing cell size. Virchow called these … Read more
Number of words: 489 The Coronavirus pandemic has brought forth a curious herd behavior that has left many people bewildered – the senseless instinct to hoard toilet paper. Why are people hoarding toilet paper, but not body wash or hand soap? Wouldn’t it make more sense to hoard body wash or hand soap? The current … Read more
Number of words: 837 Poor diet is a major cause behind the COVID-19 deaths and the Indians must urgently cut down on ultra-processed food to build resilience against the deadly virus, a leading Indian-origin cardiologist in the UK has cautioned. Dr Aseem Malhotra, who is among the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) frontline medics and … Read more
Number of words: 1,150 Your screen freezes. There’s a weird echo. A dozen heads stare at you. There are the work huddles, the one-on-one meetings and then, once you’re done for the day, the hangouts with friends and family. Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we’re on video calls more than ever before – and many … Read more
Number of words: 2,512 Right now, we have two large, complex systems. The first is a virus sweeping through the global population and our combined efforts to mitigate it. The second is a declining global economy. Both systems are incredibly difficult to measure and understand, much less predict. Both are so large and unruly that … Read more
Number of words: 192 A preliminary analysis of numbers from NYC’s boroughs shows a strong correlation between automobile commutes and Covid cases. There are multiple things happening here. Some of them a commentary on human behaviour, some a little more. Since travel brings us in contact with others at our destinations (stores, jobs, restaurants), the … Read more
Number of words: 1,693 My name is Rebecca, and I’m a cyborg. Specifically, I have 32 computer chips inside my head, which rebuild my sense of hearing. This is called a cochlear implant. You remember the Borg from Star Trek, those aliens who conquered and absorbed everything in sight? Well, that’s me. The good news … Read more
Number of words: 1,266 Pestilence presents a moment of great opportunity for many businesses. Consider the speed at which contracts are put out to tender to meet extraordinary needs. Consider the ability to move goods and money without all the normal checks or legal and bureaucratic protocols. Plague is a boon for the commercial class. … Read more
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