PatrickGSmyth

‘We need to stop pretending it’s all about molecular biology. Serious illnesses are affected by aesthetics, by art, and by the moral questions that are negotiated between practitioners and patients.’

— Ted Kaptchuk, Harvard Institute on Placebo Research

(Source: archives.newyorker.com)

‘…debt-saddled graduates [are] the last indentured workers in the developed world, unable to free themselves even through bankruptcy.’

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‘There are very few people in the world who actually think using unrestrained critical thinking. Almost everyone either thinks by analogy or follows the crowd. Peter is much more willing to look at things from a first-principle standpoint.’

—Elon Musk on Peter Theil http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_packer

The real point, of course, is that there are almost no born busts in the N.F.L., and no born “elite” quarterbacks. (Cf. Eli Manning, who has been both.) Alex Smith’s career is a reminder that what one really finds are systems and circumstances.

—http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2011/10/quarterbacks-born-that-way.html

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