Just one question pops up on our Medical City quiz today: Can you name one scientist, any scientist, responsible for inventing the COVID vaccine? Sorry, Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx don’t count; though they led the national effort to convince (most of) us to take the vaccine, they didn’t develop the vaccine themselves. Isn’t it odd – and revealing – that a couple hundred … [Read more...]
Nobel Notable of Laureate Park: Saul Bellow, Agent of Angst
With this article, we continue our series on the Nobel laureates whose names grace the 130+ streets of Laureate Park. Some writers seem blessed with indelible fame, even if recognition emerges slowly. Herman Melville, for one example, garnered little praise during his lifetime. Not until the 1920s did critics crown Moby Dick as a literary masterpiece, and Melville’s … [Read more...]
Former President Clinton, Sanjay Gupta, and Other Speakers Focus on Lessons of the Pandemic at the 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum
Photos Courtesy of the Lake Nona Impact Forum In late February, over 300 health and wellness leaders, plus former President Bill Clinton, gathered in our neighborhood for three days for the 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum. For those new to Lake Nona, the Impact Forum, now in its 10th year, attracts the finest minds in healthcare for an invitation-only annual conference featuring … [Read more...]
Editor’s Note: This Month in Nonahood News …
April marks the start of the second quarter of the year, and there’s so much in this edition to be excited about. In our Business & Real Estate section, Felicity Mae Gomer breaks down the new Basecamp information center located within the Sunbridge communities. Also in that same section, Natalia Foote gives insightful tips on how to combat decision fatigue in Nonahood … [Read more...]
Nobel Notable of Laureate Park: Leon Lederman, Cosmological Comedian
“The Goddamn Particle” was the title Leon Lederman had chosen for his book about the development of quantum mechanics. Lederman, the “Mel Brooks of Physics,” had invented the moniker as a joke. The goddamn particle in question was a bit of mass later to be recognized as the Higgs boson, the final puzzle piece in the array of 17 elementary particles that make up the Standard … [Read more...]
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