Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilienceby Eileen Cronin; New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014, 334 pages

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2010, 276 pp. $26.95. ISBN 0393072223 (hardcover)

The Art and Politics of Science Harold Varmus New York/London: WW. Norton & Company

Autobiographic throughout, The Art and Politics of Science is not an autobiography, and does not claim to be one. Neither is it a theoretical reflection on the relationship of science and politics. It is explicitly subjective, an always-personal account of what it means to do science. It tells us something about the nature of laboratory science, and of how politics is involved in the doing of s...

W. T. G. Morton's Memoir on Sulphuric Ether, 1847

could delineate Cushing's character and characteristics quite as well as has Cushing himself. The reader may well wish that more of such material had been included. The book is singularly free of observable technical errors, the most significant one is the statement on page 88 where we find that Cushing sailed from Boston on the 30th of June to arrive (says Cushing) "in Liverpool harbor on June...

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W. W. "Mo" Cleland: a catalytic life.

Professor W. Wallace Cleland, the architect of modern steady-state enzyme kinetics, died on March 6, 2013, from injuries sustained in a fall outside of his home. He will be most remembered for giving the enzyme community Ping-Pong kinetics and the invention of dithiothreitol (DTT). He pioneered the utilization of heavy atom isotope effects for the elucidation of the chemical mechanisms of enzym...