Twice as Hard

Jasmine Brown is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a masters degree in the history of science, medicine and technology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. As an undergraduate, she founded the Minority Association of Rising Scientists (MARS)—a reaction to the realization that though she was the only black student in…

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From the Archives: Running on Railroad Time

In case you haven’t heard, I am still deep in book mode.  May 1 approaches, and I am doing the revision hokey-pokey.  (Put the right words in, take the wrong words out, but the right words, and you shake it all about.)  While I turn myself around, here is a post for your amusement that…

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From the Archives: Madame Lenormand’s Fortune Telling Cards

I am still deep in book mode, with a May 1 deadline bearing down on me–I feel a bit like the heroine in a melodrama who is tied to the tracks and knows the train is coming  through the tunnel ANY MINUTE NOW.   (Don’t worry.  I’m not waiting to be saved, though My Own True…

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