This really interesting article, released this month in the journal Academic Medicine, comes to an interesting conclusion about changes in empathy during medical school. As a medical school hopeful, I think it’s important to reflect on these kinds of challenges:
It is concluded that a significant decline in empathy occurs during the third year of medical [...]
For something that I really couldn’t care less about, distillation has played a frighteningly prominent role in my recent life. Ergo, let this image serve as a kind of penance for my many organic chemistry sins. Recrystallization, hydroboration, proton NMR, MCAT — I shall never curse you again.
My friend Mike races up the steps of the Philly Art Museum as the Rocky theme blasts (i.e., sputters) from my iPhone. Of course, we’re big Cézanne fans.
I found this hilarious passage in John Steinbeck’s quasi-eulogy of his best friend, Ed Ricketts, About Ed Ricketts. I think all sons can sympathize in some manner.
Ed regarded his father with affection. ‘He has one quality of genius,’ Ed would say. ‘He is always wrong. If a man makes a million decisions and judgments at [...]
I don’t personally love poetry, but I recently re-read Pablo Neruda’s Cien Sonetos de Amor: XVII, and it is just silly good. I must also admit my friend Aidan deserves credit because, in poetic fashion, I’ve now slyly stolen her favorite poem and claimed it as mine.
No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, [...]
This photo, snapped in Boston, has a story. One night, a few friends and I were taking a stroll downtown when a group of men rushed to the middle of the street with the ladder and took down a sign maybe 20 feet in the air. It was spontaneous and charming, and, like all things [...]
Absolutely stunning; it gave me goose bumps. Isn’t it fascinating how a piece of music can summon such visceral memories?
Of course, there are a group of scientists theorizing on the evolutionary role of music acquisition. I know — someone using evolution to explain a human phenomena — you don’t say! But this article is a [...]
I took this photo on my iPhone over the Fourth of July weekend from the deck of our new cottage.