We need more of Dr King's values in the world. Love. Justice. Equity. Peace. Hope for achieving more of these in 2023.

The vicious, unjustified beating of Tyre Nichols and his ultimate death at the hands of five Memphis police officers is just the latest, painful reminder of how far America still has to go in fixing how we police our streets.

Cancer continues to threaten millions of lives But to witness a stage IV patient enter remission, having received not a drop of chemotherapy but rather immunotherapy, is a near-miracle I didn’t foresee when my career began Not all tears in an oncology clinic are shed in sadness

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.

How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910 - full text pdf: bit.ly/2pThkf1 or with the table of contents: calculusmadeeasy.org]

These two teens developed a trigonometry proof for the famous Pythagorean Theorem, something mathematicians have long thought impossible. Read more about how they presented their proof at an American Mathematical Society conference. trib.al/wOKMpmr

This nation was built on peaceful protest. No elected official should lose their job simply for raising their voice – especially when they’re doing it on behalf of our children.

R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal, July 2, 1930 - April 16, 2023. Here he is performing “Ahmad’s Blues” with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernel Fournier on drums in 1959.

Staying with my MIL. She’s trained crows to ring a bell in the morning when they’re ready for their tiny peanut butter sandwiches she makes them. I’m not sure there’s anything else to say.

I strive for this one day

The notion of a lab as a “family” is toxic. I think of my lab as a punk band, where I’m the grizzled old manager who goes around picking up bar tabs, cleaning up broken glass and vomit, and lying to the police

One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.

Amazing!

Incredible diligence and method development to achieve this

To all the dads out there who go all out for their loved ones, thank you for everything you do. Dad, I'm specifically remembering you for your courage and compassion today. Thank you for helping me learn how to be kind to myself as a first step towards showing up for others.

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Since the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, people have wondered if a similar type of system exists in eukaryotes. Today, we report in nature the characterization of Fanzor, a eukaryotic RNA-guided system that can be reprogrammed for human genome editing. nature.com/articles/s4158…

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

"The monstrous denizens of the intergalactic deep reveal themselves not through the light they emit, but by how they stir the space-time we share. When a gravitational wave moves through you, you are, for a moment, a different shape" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… by me The Washington Post