A Conversation with Nathan Allen

A Conversation with Nathan Allen

I t all started when Nathan Allen was stuck in the lab, babysitting his experiments for hours at a time. The 10or 15-minute blocks between checking on his reactions weren’t long enough to dig into anything substantial. Instead, he recalls, “I posted snarky comments on the internet, which you can do in 5 minutes.” Soon, Allen was answering science questions on the Web site Reddit, where he saw p...

A conversation with David Nathan.

Peter Allen Dysert II, MD: a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:85–103 Pete Dysert (Figure 1) was born in Dallas, Texas, on July 8, 1954. Growing up, he spent time in several Texas cities and also in New York City before settling in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he completed his sophomore through senior years of public high school. He then entered the University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman on a scholastic scholarship. After 3 years in colle...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

A Conversation with Graham Hutchings

G raham Hutchings of Cardiff University made a discovery in 1982 that came to define his career. He predicted that golddespite its reputation for being inertshould be an excellent catalyst for an industrial reaction that makes vinyl chloride monomer (VCM, or chloroethene), used to produce one of the world’s most ubiquitous plastics, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). More than three decades later, Hut...