Epstein Secrets

"I got completely hooked on viruses. It is an area of ec- static ecological complexity." While in graduate school, Wolfe spent several summers in Uganda, where each morning he foraged for dead mosqui- toes among the feces in gorilla and chimpanzee nests. "Not so glamorous," he said, shrugging. "But

er our biological surroundings are daunting. "I won't say viruses can be conquered," David Baltimore told me. Baltimore, the for- mer president of Caltech, received a Nobel Prize for his work in elucidat- ing the mechanics of retroviruses. "Not completely. But they don't have to conquer us, either."

c terms make those simians' social-political conflicts sound more brutal than they are? The chimps Catherine and I saw on their island sanctuary in Uganda we loathed. Unlike the pacific gorillas in the forest of Bwindi, they fought, dementedly shrieked, the dominant male lorded it over the rest; they

matica computation system, A New Kind of Science, and the Wolfram 'Alpha computational knowledge engine. Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the age of zo. Wolfram's work on basic science led him to a series of fundamental discoveries about

culture. In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime and stop genocide. A few months later, the Tanzanian army moved into Uganda to evict Idi Amin and stop the massacres he had started. In 1983, the United States, leading a coalition of Caribbean states, invaded Grenada to li

g neuroscientists will be tempted to leave the U.S. for better funding in Europe (as one eminent neuroscientist did recently, after twenty years at Caltech); whether it meets its grand goal or not, the European project will certainly lead to a significant number of smaller scientific advances. If the U

ic terms make those simians’ social-political conflicts sound more brutal than they are? The chimps Catherine and | saw on their island sanctuary in Uganda we loathed. Unlike the pacific gorillas in the forest of Bwindi, they fought, dementedly shrieked, the dominant male lorded it over the rest; they we

athematica computation system, A New Kind of Science, and the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the age of 20. Wolfram’s work on basic science led him toa series of fundamental discoveries about the