If any students would like to learn more about the profits of the science publishing industry and how certain journals became so dominant and so profitable, try reading the well-written and highly entertaining article from the Guardian in the UK,… Continue Reading →
From: Harold Varmus, course instructor January 20, 2021 Welcome to Science and Society, the 2021 version of MHC360! I am writing this memo two weeks before the first meeting of this year’s Science and Society course at Macaulay Honors College… Continue Reading →
October 17, 2020 To: Alumni of MHC360 From: Harold Varmus Recently I received a nice note from one of the members of the 2020 class of MHC360, commenting on my appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show and suggesting that I… Continue Reading →
Just before leaving for Europe, I noted that an exceptional exhibition about scientific marvels was on display until the end of February (actually March 1st) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While thinking about Session #4 of MHC360 on Wednesday… Continue Reading →
Following my brief holiday in Paris, my wife and I traveled to London by rail under the English Channel. Although my primary purpose was to visit the Francis Crick Institute as a member of its Science Advisory Board, we had… Continue Reading →
I am missing class this week, turning my responsibilities over to Jonathan Weiner, while I travel to the meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Crick Institute in London. On the way, I have stopped in Paris for a… Continue Reading →
“I have recently learned about an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum entitled “Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe.” An excellent and enthusiastic review of the exhibit by Andrew Katzenstein in the February 27, 2020, issue of… Continue Reading →
Today I am returning (on Azerbaijan Air, non-stop to JFK) from the Global Baku Forum, which has been held here in the capital of Azerbaijan, on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, for the past several years to engage… Continue Reading →
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