Ross Gay
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No matter how fervently we shout, judge, or legislate, children’s bodies will still have been affected by all the chemicals to which they were subjected.
Children deserve care that helps their bodies match their brains … especially since our cavalier treatment of these children’s environment has probably helped cause the mismatch.
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On poetry.
We recently had the good fortune of being invited to Ross Gay‘s book release for his new volume of poetry. So we bundled N into her spacesuit, braved the cold, and went — thank you, Ross, for a wonderful evening! His new poem “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” is spectacular, so kind and…
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On Ross Gay’s “The Burden” and forcing mice to swim.
Let’s say you were trying to develop a new antidepressant. Then you’d need a screen to know if your compound or cocktail of compounds was working. Eventually, you’d be doing that screen in humans – give some depressed people your medicine, see if they feel better, see if they feel better than they would’ve felt…
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