My Type 1 diabetes invades every corner of my life. I hate it. While I am incredibly fortunate to live in a time of tremendous technological advancement, lucky to have quality healthcare, and grateful that I have a manageable disease, I still hate it. I want nothing more than a cure, but will I ever be delivered the cure I’ve been promised by clinicians for so many years?
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The Fate of Fat
With each January 1st comes the ritual of the “New Year Resolution:” the commitment, more or less strong, to modify one’s behavior in the incipient year, typically positively, and oftentimes to better oneself. The practice is not new: people as far back as the ancient Babylonians had their own version of New Year Resolutions. These days, Americans regularly rank weight loss among their top objectives, which doesn’t seem too surprising if you consider the rates of overweight/obesity, and the socially-sanctioned, year-end national exercise-in-gluttony that starts around the fourth Thursday in November.
Read MoreThe Leaning Ivory Tower
The practice of academic research is unsustainable, as long as it remains trapped in a funding and hiring framework designed for rapid growth rather than for a steady state. In the long term, this calls for serious reform; in the short term, graduate students and postdocs must embrace careers beyond the heavily trodden academic path.
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