![]() ![]() By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. ![]() Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.įor years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. ![]() ![]() In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. ![]()
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![]() It also, in the end, is a love song to New York, sung, tremulously as first, but then in a stronger and stronger voice, by an outsider. And thus, when she emerges from the mysteries and uncertainties she finds herself in-gets herself into-the payoff is sweeter. Before we know her fully, we suspect there is someone to root for here, and we do. Even when it's her own flaws and less-than-thought-out decisions that land her in the corners she find herself painted into, we can't judge her harshly. ![]() The book also achieves poignancy without ever become maudlin, without ever, even in its darkest moments, abandoning the underlying absurdity of the situations Iris finds herself in. The humor comes from the characters themselves, and never takes us away from the main thrust of the story-though there are a number of delightful “set pieces,” which reminded me of a wonderful cross between Carrie Bradshaw and Lucille Ball-but instead leads us deeper into understanding and caring for each of the characters, especially, of course, our heroine, Iris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren Lipton's “It's about Your Husband” does many things a good book should do, and does them all remarkably well. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The dog incident at nighttime![]() Either someone is trustworthy or they’re not, in which case he thinks they’re entirely unpredictable and might hurt him. Alexander is an elderly woman makes her no less automatically trustworthy in his eyes.įor Christopher, trust is completely black and white. ![]() Christopher’s judgments of people are often different from general social attitudes, so the fact that Mrs. Alexander makes gestures of friendship which Christopher returns very warily, believing that at any moment she might lead him into danger. Christopher is very cautious whenever he meets anyone he doesn’t know. ![]() ![]() Even the school environment, where most people take for granted that teachers are essentially good people, does not reassure Christopher-he refuses to interact with new teachers until he has observed them for a few weeks to be sure it’s safe for him to trust them. Whenever Christopher meets someone new, he assumes they’re untrustworthy until he can see some proof to the contrary. ![]() These categorizations often influence whether or not Christopher feels that he can trust certain people, and his social interactions depend almost entirely on whether or not he trusts the other person. Christopher has trouble understanding other people, so he usually fails to perceive nuances in people’s personalities, instead categorizing them in a certain way that dictates how he interacts with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This article was originally published with the title "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" in Scientific American 310, 5, 76 (May 2014)ĭoi:10. Destroy another node and they lose the ability to read-even though they can still write.” Beyond paying tribute to the scientific advances these patients made possible, Kean humanizes the patients themselves. Sam Kean’s first book, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Stories of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table is currently on the New York Times Best Seller list. In this compilation of patients' stories, he details some of the unexpected truths revealed by accidents: “Destroy one small node of neurons, and people lose the ability to recognize fruits and vegetables, but not other food. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, by Sam Kean. “Despite the (often overhyped) advances of fMRI and other brain-scanning technologies, injuries remain the best, and only, way to infer certain things about the brain,” writes journalist Kean. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery: Sam Kean: 9781478901211: : Books Books Science & Math Biological Sciences Buy new: 29.25 List Price: 45.00 Details Save: 15.75 (35) FREE delivery Sep 21 - 28. Some people's tragedies have been science's miracles, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where researchers have long relied on rare brain traumas to reveal the workings of the mind. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Not dead yet willow rose![]() She remembers nothing after a blow to her head. Nancy claims she doesn’t know where she has been. Her husband is with another wife, and her children are almost grown.Įverywhere she turns, people are telling her the same thing: We thought you were dead. Now that she is back five years later, everything has changed. When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she’s not dead.īefore she disappeared, Nancy Henry appeared to have everything: a successful husband who adored her, two beautiful children, a modeling career, and a charming home in south Merritt Island with a heart wreath on the door. ![]() Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle? ![]() Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery with lots of shocking twists. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The book push by sapphire![]() ![]() ![]() As her language skills improve, she finds sustenance in writing poetry, in friendships and in support groups-one for ""insect"" survivors and one for HIV-positive teens. Under her angelic mentorship, Precious, who has never before experienced real nurturing, learns to voice her long suppressed feelings in a journal. ![]() So ugly, worth nuffin."") Referred to a pilot program by an unusually solicitous principal, Precious comes under the experimental pedagogy of a lesbian miracle worker named, implausibly enough, Blue Rain. (Precious had her first daughter at 12, named Little Mongo, ""short for Mongoloid Down Sinder, which is what she is sometimes what I feel I is. Obese, dark-skinned, HIV-positive, bullied by her sexually abusive mother, Clareece, Precious Jones is, at the novel's outset, pregnant for the second time with her father's child. With this much anticipated first novel, told from the point of view of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, Sapphire (American Dreams), a writer affiliated with the Nuyorican poets, charts the psychic damage of the most ghettoized of inner-city inhabitants. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pro-reparations essays by an array of contributors, including Congressman John Conyers Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Professor Molefi Kete Asante, and activist Deadria C. ![]() But others ask, Who should pay? And how would reparations help heal the wounds of the past?This comprehensive collection - the only one of its kind - gathers together the seminal essays and key participants in the debate. Lawmakers, distinguished academics, and grassroots organizers have embraced the idea that reparations should be pursued vigorously in courts of law and legislative bodies. As a result, the historical link between slavery and contemporary race relations is more potent and obvious than ever. Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major American corporations and a march in Washington to an anti-reparations ad campaign. ![]() ![]() 1 spot on the Children's Chapter Books list on April 29, 2012, after being on the list for 45 weeks, remaining there until May 20, when it dropped to the fourth spot on the list. ![]() The book has been a New York Times best seller. ![]() The result was a story about a boy who follows clues from his grandfather's old photographs, tales, and his grandfather's last words which lead him on an adventure that takes him to a large abandoned orphanage on Cairnholm, a fictional Welsh island. He met Leonard Lightfoot, a well-known collector at the Rose Bowl Flea Market, and was introduced to other collectors. ![]() Riggs was a collector of photographs, but needed more for his novel. This young adult book was originally intended to be a picture book featuring photographs Riggs had collected, but on the advice of an editor at Quirk Books, he used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The story is told through a combination of narrative and a mix of vernacular and found photography from the personal archives of collectors listed by the author. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a contemporary fantasy debut novel by American author Ransom Riggs. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Marnie by Marion Marsh Brown![]() ![]() Eventually she begged and was sent to a school for the blind, where they slowly began to tame the wild Irish orphan, and where she eventually thrived. She lived in a poor house for several years, and her brother died there. Annie herself had "weak eyes." It's never actually stated what was wrong with her eyes, but they were regularly inflamed, caused her migraines, and she had a number of surgeries over the years to enable her to continue seeing.Īnnie was an orphan. The Silent Storm is the story of Annie Sullivan, the woman who taught Helen Keller and was her companion and helper for many years. It was definitely interesting to read it again as an adult. I always found the story to be inspiring, especially after I started dealing with some overwhelming health problems. I don't remember where I picked it up, but I do know I probably read it half a dozen times as a child and teenager. This is a book I had on my bookshelf from when I was a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This would be a great book for parents and kids to read together. ![]() Learning to shoot a gun is mainly presented as a right of passage in country life, so families should be prepared to discuss gun safety. ![]() The story involves some heavy issues, including the death of a family member, long-term grief, mental illness, post-traumatic-stress disorder, discussion of an elderly relative's blindness, divorce, and gun use. It turns out that the keys to healing, for three generations of Harris men, are communication and forgiveness. He creates characters that are so real, readers forget they dont actually know Genie, Ernie, and their grandfather. In As Brave As You, the author, Jason Reynolds, shows how harboring resentments and not taking responsibility for one’s mistakes can tear a family apart. The parents are "having problems" in their marriage and are taking time alone to work on them, partly on vacation in Jamaica. Author Jason Reynolds is a master storyteller. Parents need to know that 2017 Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor book As Brave as You, by Jason Reynolds ( The Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys) makes his middle-grade fiction debut in this compelling story of two brothers, age 10 and 13, whose parents drive them from their home in Brooklyn, New York, to spend a few weeks in the summer with their grandparents in rural Virginia. Adults are also shown smoking cigars.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. One instance where kids are tricked into thinking they're going to drink alcohol, but it turns out to be nonalcoholic ginger beer. Adult are shown drinking alcohol and being drunk. ![]() |