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...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts...
...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts...
...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts...
...loquacious, with an eye for the ladies, he was a kind of guru even before that word became fashionable. His lab was a late-night haunt for a wide assortment of artists, writers and scholars, among them Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell and, of course, Steinbeck, who admittedly absorbed Doc?s ideas like a sponge and turned him into the model for half a dozen characters in his books. (Ricketts "was part of my brain," the Nobel-prizewinning writer later said.) In the hazy predawn hours, over mugs of his home brew, Ricketts spouted poetry (Walt Whitman was a favorite), discussed...
...These may be solipsistic questions, but they seem more than idle historic curiosity as we gather only paces from Doc Rickett?s Lab (still lovingly preserved) to ponder the future of the genetic revolution. We know he favored the simple life, as in his admiration for the unencumbered lifestyle of the Indians he encountered with Steinbeck around the Sea of Cortez. He also had a profound appreciation of nature, untrammeled and unspoiled. He did not like to see it reel under unthinking human assault. But as a scientist, he also understood the power and potential of research to improve...