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Aida at the Met Saturday matinee. Beczala in good voice finally. Angel Blue and Q Kelsey superb in their scenes together

The use of torsemide as opposed to furosemide has received a lot of attention. Here is an Editorial where I show there is no no difference between the two drugs. 🧪

Comparing Torsemide with Furosemide: Finally a Mechanistic Approach that Says, "Enough Already".
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39745789/

At the Green Wood Cemetery today to pay one's respects and love. A great bucolic park and a national historic monument. It is served by the MTA with 3 lines with stations at each of its gates. Please read the names of the lines which spell a most appropriate action for this glorious resting place. 🧪

We were at Aida on New Year’s Eve at the Met. Nice production lovely staging, great director except for the silly inclusion of tomb robbers/ archaeologists as a side show. Luckily they weren’t too distracting. Kelsey as Aamonasro was the star, Beczala in bad voice and Angel Blue quite unsteady

Schubert is the best cure for loneliness says the wonderful pianist Jonathan Biss. He’s also the most consoling of composers

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...

My son's gift from Ecuador; a delicious nut bar. But look at the health label ! How rational and easy to interpret
unlike ours; high in sugar and fat, low in salt. Ours would have been in, for example, 128 mg of Na when no one uses the metric system, as if it was written in order to confuse.
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As paraphrased from Gustav Mahler's second symphony (fifth movement):

"You were not born for no reason.

You have not lived for nothing.

Nor suffered in vain.

What has lived must also perish

What has perished shall rise again."

Happy Winter Solstice. #wintersolstice #art #death #fauxlinocut

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

I went once more to see Die Frau ohne Schatten yesterday. It was overwhelming. Unforgettable finale to the 1st Act with Volle as Barak. Here it is with Karl Bohm conducting in1942 Dresden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQb...
I hope that the ecstatic reception will make the Met put it on more frequently.

I went once more to see Die Frau ohne Schatten yesterday. It was overwhelming. Unforgettable finale to the 1st Act with Volle as Barak. Here it is with Karl Bohm conducting in1942 Dresden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQb...
I hope that the ecstatic reception will make the Met put it on more frequently.

Edith Porada, a great archeologist and mentor to my wife; A Columbia professor and curator of cylinder seals at the Morgan Library. Watch at min 35 where Sidney Babcock, her student presents a terrific and moving biography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQnz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQnz...

While reading the excitng paper by H Sebastian Seung
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07953-5
I came across his web game that is a citizen science project EyeWire that is helping to build the connectome
eyewire.org
I have never played a video game but this was FUN
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I have a photograph of Claude Bernard the great French scientist and one can say founder of modern scientific medicine. Among many other things he developed the idea of Homeostasis.🧪
Most of my colleagues have never heard of him. Here is a brief article
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Just saw the documentary The Thinking Game about Demis Hassibis and the discovery of AlphaFold. This guy is a certified GENIUS and glad he just got the Nobel Prize.🧪
Produced by Roco Films and was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival here in New York.🧪

The JCI is celebrating its centennial this year and they asked to write about my experiences in cholera. 🧪

The forgotten pandemic: how understanding cholera illuminated mechanisms of chloride channels in multiple diseases 🧪
J Clin Invest. 2024 Aug 15;134(16):e184297.
doi.org/10.1172/jci1...

An Editorial Comment in Kidney International on Salt sensitivity in chronic kidney disease 🧪

doi.org/10.1016/j.ek...

@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
Also the New Yorker. Looking forward to hearing you at the Narrative Medicine meeting at Columbia University medical school later in the season

A recent biography of the great journalist Claud Cockburn by his son Patrick, Claud is quoted as saying that the he did not believe in “ Speaking Truth to Power”. Power will not be swayed by it. One should speak truth to the powerless because they can use it in their struggle against the powerful.