[proxy_user]

This is a fascinating article. Once you get off the political beat, the NY Times has some good reporting. It is interesting that just one guy, pushing ahead and pulling his team along, can produce such results. This is not new - people like Edison and Einstein made fantastic advances.

[Honorary Serb]

Thank you very much for this wonderful post.

However, I hate to click on the NYT, because they want me to leave my email, or connect with Google. What they really want is to force me to pay and subscribe, and to subsidize their horrible leftist “journalism”. PHOOEY to them!!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Gina Kolata wrote a good book about influenza.

[catnipman]

I’ve met some absolutely brilliant Persians during my career, and we’re very lucky when those choose to immigrate to the U.S. ... of the ancient cultural/gene lines, the Persians have remained viable like the Chinese/Mongols have, the Greeks & Romans not so much ... (The Norse spread around the world and are still viable, just not ancient)

[Nailbiter]

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