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Wynton Marsalis swings easily from Monk to Mozart...
...year later, Marsalis has issued a new jazz album, Think of One (title track courtesy Thelonious Monk), and, concurrently, a piece of classical virtuosity, three trumpet concertos (Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Hummel). And Marsalis just seems to be warming up. Remarked the classical trumpet virtuoso Maurice André": "He is potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time...
That understated response to the greatest honor in science was typical of the intensely private, no-nonsense researcher. Genetics is a science founded by a monk-19th century Augustinian Gregor Mendel-and McClintock is in every sense his disciple. For half a century she has labored in almost monastic solitude over her patch of Indian corn, or maize, much as Mendel did in his famous pea patch. In an era when most scientific work is done by large research teams, McClintock did not even have a laboratory assistant. ("Excuse me for being hoarse," she once told a scientist who stopped...
...Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing grotesque customs...
Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were the universal laws of heredity worked out. By tallying up the variations in the offspring peas, Mendel determined that traits are passed from generation to generation with mathematical precision in small, separate packets, which became known as genes (from the Greek word for race...