Congrats to our contest winners, Agustin (and Jessica!), Antonio, and Byron who will receive a copy of John Farndon‘s Atlas of Oceans! You may have tuned in last week to PRI’s The World to catch Farndon‘s interview and the related Geo Quiz about the newly identified fifth ocean, but these
Entertainment Weekly’s 2011 preview included a blurb about the forthcoming, debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness, with a review by Karen Valby out shortly after. When she published The Jewel House with YUP, a scientific history of Elizabethan London, The New Yorker wrote: “Harkness’s research is revelatory
Only two days left to enter our contest and win a free copy of John Farndon‘s Atlas of Oceans. Remember: you must correctly identify the landmasses on the cover image and live in North America to win. Submit your answer and e-mail address as a comment to our blog (not
We are soon to publish here in North America John Farndon’s Atlas of Oceans: An Ecological Survey of Underwater Life. If the title has not already begun to hint, this book goes under the sea to investigate the biological conditions of marine ecosystems, taking into consideration the climate changes that
Happy New Year from YUP! To start the year off on the right foot, we will be exploring the theme of resolutions for the month of January. Whether old or new, resolutions aim to bring finality, both to foster new beginnings and bring old stories to a close. Like Janus
Dr. Richard Frank— Recently in my practice I met an 80 year old woman with lung cancer. Her story began only a year earlier, when she underwent surgery at another hospital to remove a stage 1B non-small cell lung cancer. This is an early stage of lung cancer (out of 4
Well, someone is having the best day ever. After last night’s total lunar eclipse in the Western hemisphere, the moon continues to occupy center stage as tonight’s winter solstice approaches for those of us north of the Equator. Here in New Haven, the sun rose at 7:15am and will quickly
Dr. Richard Frank— I am grateful to Kathy LaTour and CURE Magazine for the review of my book just posted on the CURE website. Please check it out! Richard C. Frank, M.D., is director of cancer research at the Whittingham Cancer Center of Norwalk Hospital, medical director of Mid-Fairfield Hospice, and Clinical
Perhaps the most famous imperial garden in the Western imagination is that of the thirteenth-century Mongol emperor and founder of the Chinese Yuan dynasty, Khubilai Khan. Immortalized by the vivid and haunting poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “Kubla Khan,” Khan’s garden is an elaborate synthesis of natural and manmade
Dr. Richard Frank— The most precious things in life is life itself, good health and the happiness and well-being of our loved ones. When a person is diagnosed with cancer, these important things become jeopardized. Life itself may be shortened by the cancer or at least have the potential to be. A