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...unfamiliar pressure of a sealed spacecraft. Reporters noticed the sparring between mission control and the ship and began writing about the "snappishness" of the astronauts. The Russian press weighed in too, pointing out the crew's "increased irritation due to the monotony of the spaceflight and the imperfect design of the systems for controlling the vital functions of the spacemen...
...Both in the understanding of science and the understanding of the Bible and Christian faith, human understanding is imperfect,” he argues...
...trying to understand why medicine is imperfect and how one navigates that world either as a doctor who is trying to learn the skills along the way or as someone just trying to think about what should happen in medicine from any vantage point,” he says...
...book “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2006 he received the MacArthur “genius grant” for his research and writing...
...issue (one that is not online, unfortunately) - is hilarious today. Wasson describes his hallucinations at great length, in reverent terms: "The visions were not blurred or uncertain. They were sharply focused. I felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life." This is druggie talk - febrile and largely meaningless. That it was printed in Life magazine - the most influential publication of the day - without irony shows how na?ve we were. (Wasson in particular: he gave mushrooms...