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Bring in the Chimps (opens the original)
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Every morning at the office, my friend Matt would begin the day by saying a prayer of atonement to a brass statuette of the monkey god Sun Wukong, wearing a crown on its simian head, holding its sinuous tail in one hand and Ruyi Jungu Bang his gold fighting staff in the other. Sun Wukong was deadly with Ruyi Jungu Bang. That’s what worried Matt.He was seeking forgiveness for the terrible things he’d done to monkeys during his years as a neuroscience post-doc at Yale, studying their brains for in
The Mighty Multi-Meds (opens the original)
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Back in 2004, a medical director at the agency where I was working gave a prescient talk to the staff. I still have the slide set. It was that memorable.At the time, the three best-selling drugs on the market were: Lipitor for high cholesterol, which was raking in $11 billion a year for Pfizer; Zocor, a competing cholesterol medication that was netting Merck $5 billion annually; and Nexium, a heartburn drug that had become a $4-billion cash-cow for AstraZeneca. But the age of blockbuster drugs w
The Morning of 9/11 (opens the original)
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The morning of 9/11, I was on the 8:25 train to the city, staring out the window as usual at the familiar landscape of smokestacks, gravel pits, and concrete buttresses rising out of the swampy wetlands. It could almost be beautiful when the wind blew through the cattails under the pink and blue sky—though it was much easier to imagine Sil and Big Pussy in the marsh grass dumping the bodies for Tony Soprano.It was just another day—until the conductor’s voice crackled inexplicably over the interc
Life with Legs (opens the original)
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“I’d moved into an apartment in Staten Island… but I’d always pass out on the ferry and miss my stop! So, I’d have to rerun the entire sequence of events again like a nightly loop of Groundhog Day, until I finally got the message and started staying at Victor Bockris and Jeff Goldberg’s apartment at 106 Perry Street.”There we are on page 113 of Legs McNeil’s gleeful, unrepentantly dissolute memoir Resident Punk: How I Smoked, Drank, And Stumbled My Way Through the ‘70s Punk Scene (And Beyond). V
Why Bobby Loves Peppers (opens the original)
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“I’m a big fan of peptides. I’ve used them myself,” RFK Jr. declared in an interview with Joe Rogan last February. Rogan is a big fan, too, who routinely treats his aches and pains with the combination of peptides BPC-157 and TB-500, known as the “Wolverine stack” after the limb-regenerating Marvel character.Peptides are short chains of amino acids produced in the body to regulate hormones and reduce inflammation. These “signaling molecules” act as chemical messengers directing cells to perform
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