HOW CUPE 3903 STRUCK AND WON

How the quest was won

Not long after Jim Watson's The Double Helix appeared, there was talk about making a movie about the DNA story. The author of the book took this very seriously and did not find all the many suggestions made to him very helpful. One idea put forward was that Jim should be played by Woody Allen and Francis Crick by Peter O'Toole. Another was to do it as a musical with a dance based on the entwini...

Won For All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced

In The Strongest Boy’s title essay, Reilly tells the story of a German newborn whose strangely muscled physique is due to a frame shift mutation in the aforementioned muscle inhibitor, myostatin. As a result, his 7-month-old thighs look like those of a miniscule Lance Armstrong. His mother, a heterozygote and professional athlete, already has hidden him from public view, shielding him from scru...

Struck: Supplementary Material

David Aronson : STRUCK BY SCIENCE

technical analysis for 40 years and was a true believer. However, his faith in the effectiveness of technical analysis was shaken in the summer of 2000, just after the technology bubble burst. At the time, Aronson, 61, worked as a proprietary trader for Spear, Leeds, and Kellogg and had been profitable for four years. He used standard technical analysis techniques — interpreting classic chart p...

Hard Won and Easily Lost

This article reviews evidence that manhood is seen as a precarious social status that is both difficult to achieve and tenuously held. Compared with womanhood, which is typically viewed as resulting from a natural, permanent, and biological developmental transition, manhood must be earned and maintained through publicly verifiable actions. Because of this, men experience more anxiety over their...