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The World's Fair is pleased to offer the following discussion about Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California (MIT Press, 2008), with its author Christopher Henke. Henke is an assistant professor of sociology at Colgate University, an STS scholar, and a contributor to Colgate's environmental studies program. Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, says its publisher, "explores the ways that science helped build the Salinas Valley and California's broader farm industry." In doing so, Henke provides an account of "how agricultural scientists and g...

Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 07.14 EST The galumphing comedy of Siegfried leaves me cold The list of operas I’d happily never sit through again grows longer by the year, but Siegfried has been very near the top of it for a long time. I’m not a perfect Wagnerite by any means (another of his greatest works would also be on my blacklist), but nor am I a Wagner-phobe: I find Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung totally compelling parts of The Ring. Yet the galumphing comedy of Siegfried leaves me utterly cold, and even the glorious scene between Erda and The Wanderer that opens the third ac...

Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley and more on their obsession with Wagner’s Ring cycle As Radio 3 broadcasts four nights of the Ring Cycle, famous fans explain the magic moments that hold them spellbound 16 February 2021 • 6:00am Nina Stemme's Brünnhilde (seen here in  Götterdämmerung) is a highlight of this Ring Cycle Credit: Bill Cooper/Bill Cooper From tomorrow evening onwards, BBC Radio 3 encourages you to leave the earthly toil of lockdown and become swept up in Wagner’s Ring cycle. The composer’s tetralogy of operas, comprising Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdäm...

Esophageal Cooling May Help Prevent Injury From Cardiac Ablations Atrial fibrillation ablations can cause esophageal injury, but an FDA-cleared temperature management system may help protect the esophagus Attune Medical’s ensoETM is a single use thermal regulating device that is placed in the esophagus similar to a standard gastric tube and connected to an external heat exchange unit, creating a closed-loop system for heat transfer to increase or decrease patient temperature. EPs are now looking at the device as a way to prevent RF damage to the esophagus during cardiac ablations.   Decemb...

The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons, has granted a three-year accreditation to the Hampson Mole Breast Health Suite at University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center, according to a news release. UH Elyria is the only hospital in Lorain County with this nationally accredited breast cancer care, the release said. To achieve voluntary the accreditation, a breast center demonstrates compliance with the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers standards that examine a center’s leadership, clinical services, rese...