Discoverers and Discoveries

A Washington lunch, and the fiction that makes builders build I had lunch recently with a friend at a small Italian place in DC near Sibley Hospital.

Former NSF policy insider Joel Widder’s new take on NSF’s problems here.

Friends laugh over pizza while exploring the brain’s prefrontal cortex and amygdala.

Hermissenda escapes classical conditioning for better waters.

How America’s Dust Bowl is playing out again After a clear Sunday morning in mid-April 1935, Oklahomans experienced a soil blizzard the likes of which would become legend.

How an Emergent Ventures meeting in the Danish capital produced optimism about our future I was in Copenhagen this past weekend for a meeting of Emergent Ventures grant winners, most of whom were under thirty.

How I was able to retain a superstar under less-than-ideal circumstances Some details here — names and offering institutions — have been changed.

The 100 + page document is here.

My dinner with Ronald Reagan yielded an unexpected lesson Three Caesar salads paired with white wine and fresh bread served on a neatly set table The future POTUS refused the interview request.

I had a plan for neuroscience funding.

Dan’s spot on, as always, here.

Three weeks into a new job, I got blamed for a sustainability plan I didn’t write.