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What We're Reading
October 22
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Geneticists Alarmed by White Supremacists’ Misuse of Their Research (New York Times)
Scientists worry about how new tools that are enabling them to home in on the genetic basis of hot-button traits like intelligence will be misconstrued to fit racist ideologies.
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Coming to Terms with Six Years in Science:Obsession, Isolation and Moments of Wonder (STAT)
In this heartfelt essay, an MIT graduate student writes of obsessively laboring to understand the intricacies of frog embryos and how his "monomania" affected his personal life. His adviser had a saying: “You have to believe that Sisyphus was happy.”
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New Microscope Offers 4-D Look at Embryonic Development in Living Mice (HHMI News)
With the development of an adaptive, multiview light sheet microscope and a suite of computational tools, researchers have captured the first view of early organ development inside the mouse embryo.
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Writing When on the Autism Spectrum (The Open Notebook)
A writer finds out she is on the autism spectrum and comes to understand the challenges it has posed as well as the benefits it has offered.
