book review by a medical student
—the strongest boy in the world and other adventures in genetics, the case against perfection ryan blum in the yale j biol med [00_dec_2007]

this american life episodes
—the invention of money on the imaginary dollar [07_jan_2011]
—oh you shouldn't have guest host nancy updike [04_mar_2011]
—i'm in charge now taking charge, and failing [20_jun_2003]
—original recipe coca-cola's secret revealed! [11_feb_2011]

from the new yorker
—hollywood shadows psychotherapy in the entertainment capital [21_mar_2011]
—going for a beer short, short fiction by robert coover [14_mar_2011]
—get smart human thinking is what computers can't do...yet [04_apr_2011]

interviews
—jonathan safran foer with charlie rose [24_may_2002]
—jonathan safran foer sticking it to michael krasny [18_apr_2005]
—ira glass with charlie rose [04_apr_2007]

talks (mostly from TED)
—sherwin nuland the surgeon-writer on (his) depression [00_feb_2001]
—sheena iyengar on choosing less [00_jul_2010]
—rick smolan a story of a girl in photographs [00_dec_2007]
—iain hutchison art and reconstructing faces in surgery [00_jul_2010]
—dan ariely how to do what's good for us [03_dec_2010]
—juan enriquez information storage: bacteria >> computers [00_feb_2003]
—kary mullis tinkerer extraordinaire [00_feb_2002]

stories (mostly read aloud)
—the man of the world frank o'connor
—i bought a little city donald barthelme
—reunion john cheever

about yale
—holy eli, batman! bruce wayne goes to yale law [00_mar_2011]
—title ix: taking yale to court concealing sexual harassment [18_apr_2011]
—the yale plan of medical education conceiving the yale system [00_nov_1986]

essays miscellaneous
—notes on susan part obituary, part review on ms. sontag [16_aug_2007]
—it's a ghanaian funeral partying with death [11_apr_2011]
—into the water writing and awareness in medical school [31_mar_2011]

writers/poets/schmoets
—louis menand also writes here
—pablo neruda his odes, in particular
—robert herrick and his superbly distasteful vulgar poetry
—peter schjeldahl examining art in spectacles
—adam gopnik on technology and other things

First created in 2007.

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