R. Coxeter
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Life science news and startups. Producer. Editor. New Yorker.
A theatrical Central Park sunset.
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A perfect Central Park cardinal.
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In the spring, Ms. Brous said she asked on the chat group if anyone was giving up something for Lent. The women didnât miss a beat. âThe answers were, âYeah, the use of my arms!ââ Ms. Brous said. ââFeeding myself.â âWalking.â âTalking.ââ
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The Young Women Grappling With an âOld Manâs Diseaseâ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/health/als-young-women.html
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Another gorgeous rainy day in Central Park.
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âThis should definitely be an episode of âSilicon Valley. Reboot the show!â
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SF tech founders go to finishing school â and Garry Tan does not approve
The founders learned how to shake hands and bump caviar at Slow Venturesâ âEtiquette Finishing School.â
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/08/sf-tech-founders-go-finishing-school-garry-tan-does-approve/
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đ¶ PSA: Reading this op-ed is time you canât get back.
add a skeleton here at some point
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âThe worst advice people get when they're being interviewed is to show up with these 3 points that they're supposed to repeat over and over and over again. But the best interviews, the ones that you like the most, are the ones where it feels like the person is actually grappling with the question.â
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ReThinking: The art of the interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin
Podcast Episode · Worklife with Adam Grant · 10/21/2025 · 37m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worklife-with-adam-grant/id1346314086?i=1000732753159
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My kind of longevity story:âsomewhere where every subject in the world can come up, and any type of person in the world might walk in.â
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One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/three-sisters-argosy-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.xINr.RDOu_vAj3Asl&smid=url-share
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NYC Marathon Sunday countdownâŠ
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âThe vast majority (96%) of investors believe AI will have a net positive impact on worker productivity. However, only 47% of the public say AI will result in a net positive impact on productivity.â
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New JUST Capital Survey Shows American Public and Investors Disagree on Key AI Issues. One Area Of Alignment? More Spending on Safety. â JUST Capital
As executives race to deploy AI's transformative potential, another urgent question looms: What do the people who determine a company's success â employees, consumers, communities, and investors â ac...
https://justcapital.com/news/ai-survey-findings/
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David Shaywitz
17 days ago
Just out:
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op-ed I wrote on why I see such hope in the longevity movement, despite often dubious science & frequently exaggerated claims; in short: we're embracing agency, recognizing that we have a measure of control over our long-term health.
wsj.com/opinion/nobo...
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Opinion | Nobody Ever Got Younger, but It May Be Worth a Try
The science behind the longevity movement is dubious. But the trend is promoting healthy habits.
https://wsj.com/opinion/nobody-ever-got-younger-but-it-may-be-worth-a-try-ab20cc01?st=jDAP3x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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âIt is a head trip to think that this very sentence you are reading, and maybe even my willingness to share personal medical details, may, in some minor way, be informed by demyelination in my frontal lobe, an area believed to affect planning, decision-making, and memory.â
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On My Last Leg
An illness returns after a quarter century.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/on-my-last-leg
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Fall games. Washington Square Park.
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âWomen must now live in a world in which phone manufacturers think we have hands the size of bears and jeans manufacturers think we have hands the size of pixies.â
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Why canât I buy a small smartphone?
Capitalism is not giving me what I want, but Iâm not behaving like a good free market consumer myself
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/10/24/why-cant-i-buy-a-small-smartphone/
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âMismanaging HHS endangers Americaâs health, undermines national security and damages our economic resilience and international credibility.â
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. Weâre doing that again today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy/
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When you search the Anthropic database on a lark and find your great auntâs novels along with a relativeâs math books. đ¶
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Same. âShe has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron. Burnett doesnât use a regular starting word, as many players do, but plucks a new guess each day âfrom the universe.ââ
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Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/carol-burnett-profile
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Great Q&A with Lisa Suennen, managing partner at AHA Ventures, which oversees $200M in assets: âInherent in the mission is to reduce barriers to care and to try to make things more accessible. If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment.â
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As investor for AHA, âVenture Valkyrieâ argues âgood medicine is good businessâ
Lisa Suennen: "If this is going to make it a lot more expensive to get the same outcome, that is not a good investment."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/lisa-suennen-interview-venture-valkyrie-guiding-aha-ventures/
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âThere will be preventable deaths that result from these decisions,â said Dr. Panagiotakopoulos, who oversaw the CDCâs work group on the Covid vaccine before she resigned in June. âHaving people without vaccine and clinical expertise having the power to harm so much of the public is unbearable.â
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Kennedyâs Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/health/cdc-vaccines-mmrv-hepatitis-b.html
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Sundayâs NYT cooking newsletter is always a comfort read, including Siftonâs listening and reading recs â like this Dorothy Parker piece in the London Review of Books.
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Kasia Boddy · Pretty Garrotte: Why we need Dorothy Parker
While she always insisted that she wasnât a ârealâ critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style,...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/kasia-boddy/pretty-garrotte
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Central Park edit bench. Bright-winged flyer.
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âWe are great in science. Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?â -Harold Varmus, former NIH director and Nobel-winning cancer researcher
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/cancer-research-grants-funds-trump.html
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Just remarkable: âRecorded life expectancy of a person with CF was generally months to a few years when Dorothy Andersen first described the disease; today, the estimated median age of survival for persons with CF who were born between 2020 and 2024 and have access to treatment is 65 years.â
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Transformative Research in Cystic Fibrosis | NEJM
Michael Welsh, JesĂșs GonzĂĄlez, and Paul Negulescu have won the 2025 LaskerâDeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for their roles in developing treatments for cystic fibrosis.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2510197
2 months ago
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âYou are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it.â
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The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-11-11-01-lost-and-found.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.Uj1w.XQI9cBnIwmfB&smid=url-share
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Central Park: New Yorker with a strong sense of personal space.
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Dealbook on cancer research megamerger: Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation & Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (founded by the hedge fund billionaire Alex Knaster) âcreate a new initiative to research how aging affects cancer risk.â
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The Stakes of the Murdoch Familyâs Peace Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/dealbook/lachlan-murdoch-family-deal.html
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The New Yorker
2 months ago
The photographer Gilles Peress reached the World Trade Center just before the second tower collapsed.
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reflects on Peressâs photograph of first responders at the scene. âThere it is: ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no metaphors.â
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Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peressâs Photo from September 11th
Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/takes/philip-gourevitch-on-gilles-peresss-photo-from-september-11th?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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âIâm like, youâre 8 years old,â he said. âWhat are you talking about, âIâm not a math person?ââ
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The gender gap in math widened in the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground
Efforts to close the gender gap in STEM education are gaining momentum after setbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://apnews.com/article/math-science-stem-girls-a80f44c20b1724bba6953756ecc862cd
2 months ago
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David Baltimore, in his own words (2019).
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Sixty Years of Discovery | Annual Reviews
Each of us is a story. Mine is a story of doing science for 60 years, and I am honored to be asked to tell it. Even though this autobiography was written for the Annual Review of Immunology, I have ch...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-immunol-042718-041210
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Sad news. âAdmired and envied, lionized and attacked, Dr. Baltimore spent most of his life in the scientific limelight, a towering figure of modern biology.â
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/science/david-baltimore-dead.html
2 months ago
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Just look at this gorgeous creature. A veteran guest star of the Dylan movie, Mrs. Maisel and other NYC productions.
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âItâs all confusing, and I think thatâs the point. I think Kennedyâs point is to make it confusing.â
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How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,âs Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America
A vaccine expert warns that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is deliberately sowing confusion in order to drive down immunization uptake.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/robert-f-kennedy-jrs-anti-vax-agenda-is-infecting-our-public-health-system
2 months ago
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Central Park.
3 months ago
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Lizzie O'Leary
3 months ago
A bit of a personal intro on todayâs show. The stakes of whatâs being done to cancer research right now are tangible for me.
slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Trump Vs. Cancer Research
How this administration is setting cancer research back a generationâor worse.
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/08/how-the-trump-administration-went-pro-cancer
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âI think it is the role of companies to talk about the future in ways that arenât just glibly positive.â -Nick Foster, author of âCould Should Might Donâtâ
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Youâre Probably Thinking About the Future All Wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/dealbook/future-nick-foster.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.L9zQ.m0WplyF_oHAn&smid=url-share
3 months ago
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Goldfish may love an open-plan glass pod office. Humans not so much. âThe architects reversed the scheme, elevating the experience of nature over privacyâŠThey arranged the modular workstations in an open plan, interrupted only by occasional glass-walled office podsâŠ(goldfish & water not included).â
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The Heartland Whole Health Institute: A Building for Well-Being
Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, the new home of Alice Waltonâs institute in Arkansas is a free-form structure sensitive to its surroundings and the needs of people.
https://www.wsj.com/style/design/the-heartland-whole-health-institute-a-building-for-well-being-e624a317?st=2VuvLB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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âIâve been thinking of this Labubumatchadubaichocolate phase as IRL Brain Rot, a culture that exists physically but is incomprehensible without the internet, a set of artifacts and beliefs that adhere to the post-digital self.â
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IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu
In the chimerical trend that is Labubumatchadubaichocolate, nothing is ever too extra. But those who embrace the aesthetic know that the only way out is further in.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/irl-brain-rot-and-the-lure-of-the-labubu
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Central Park August.
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âA majority of Americans (59%) say journalists are extremely or very important to the well-being of societyâŠBut about half of U.S. adults (49%) say journalists are losing influence in society.â
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How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age
U.S. adults largely value journalistsâ role in society but see their influence declining â and they differ over what a journalist is, according to Pew Research Center.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
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âDescribe the voice you use to talk to Tango? High-pitched with a New York accent and a touch of baby talk.â
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The 2025 Dogue Competition Winner Is Here!
The time has come! More than 50,000 submissions were narrowed down to one cover Dogue (and two runners-up!)
https://www.vogue.com/article/the-2025-dogue-competition-winners-are-here
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âKutler said that in initial conversations with a limited group of people who learned the MS NOW brand early, she noticed âa little trepidationâ at first, but then their enthusiasm grew.â đ€
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MSNBC to Change Its NameâAnd Lose the Peacock Logo
The cable news network will adopt the new name MS NOW ahead of its spinoff from NBCUniversal.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/msnbc-to-change-its-name-and-lose-the-peacock-logo-0c3e34a7?st=CZBwGt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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darthâąïž
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MS NOW MAX AI
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âBy recalibrating rather than severing support, we can keep this powerful tool ready for the time it is needed most. The next crisis will not wait for us to rebuild what we have thrown away.â -Rick Bright, BARDAâs director when the US made the decision to invest heavily in mRNA
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Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/mrna-vaccines.html
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âWhen Nature polled American scientists recently, 75% said they were considering leaving the United States. A Chinese VC told me that if the ethnically Chinese among those 75% came back to China, it could supercharge the countryâs efforts.â
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Opinion | Chinaâs Biotech Is Cheaper and Faster
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/china-biotech.html
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ââTactical urbanismâ is the term of art. It describes a whole universe of homegrown, under-the-radar architecture contrived to fix everyday problems in a city, like entering a grocery store whose entrance sits a step above the sidewalk.â
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The Strange Beauty of New Yorkâs Bodega Ramps
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/arts/design/deli-bodega-ramps-accessibility.html
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Whatâs oldâŠa mere two weeks later is new again.
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Vinay Prasad returns to the FDA, weeks after his ouster
HFO HFO Vinay Prasad returns to a top FDA role just weeks after his abrupt dismissal.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/vinay-prasad-returns-to-the-fda-weeks-after-his-ouster/
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Larry Levitt
3 months ago
One big challenge the writers of The Pitt are going to have: Republicans backloaded the Medicaid cuts, so most of the changes won't happen until after season 2.
variety.com/2025/awards/...
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âThe Pittâ Season 2 Will Filter Trumpâs âBig Beautiful Billâ and Medicaid Changes Into Storylines: âWe Take Our Platform Seriouslyâ
The team behind "The Pitt" open up about how the current state of the world will impact Season 2.
https://variety.com/2025/awards/awards/the-pitt-season-2-trump-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-1236481221/
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âWe lack the ability to connect the research environment with the markets to commercialize innovations emerging from academia. There should be a structural, long-term plan in Europe.â -Mario Mariniello, fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank, on EU competition for research talent
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Disney, McDonaldâs and the State of the U.S. Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/dealbook/disney-mcdonalds-us-consumer.html
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âHad we not used these lifesaving mRNA vaccines to protect against severe illness, we would have had millions of more Covid deaths.â -Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health
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Trump Administration Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Contracts
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/05/us/trump-news
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