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Joanne Peng's Science List

by Joanne Peng (Curated)

Selections from Joanne Peng's reading list on research, science, and creativity.

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Nobel Prize

42 min

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1912 Suture of Blood-Vessels and Transplantation of Organs The idea of replacing diseased organs by sound ones, of putting back an amputated limb or even of grafting a...

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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator

4 min

The Final Speech from The Great Dictator I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.

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Antedisciplinary Science

7 min

Citation: Eddy SR (2005) “Antedisciplinary” Science. PLoS Comput Biol 1(1): e6. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.

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Richard Feynman’s Letter on What Problems to Solve

3 min

“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

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Richard Feynman’s Love Letter to His Wife, Sixteen Months After Her Death

2 min

Richard Feynman was an amazing character mastering physics, thinking, life, and as we shall soon see, love. Richard and Arline Greenbaum were soul mates.

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You and Your Research

58 min

Richard Hamming ``You and Your Research'' Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986 J. F.

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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

3 min

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more: With a bachelor's degree,...

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Passing of a Great Mind: John von Neumann

18 min

Passing of a Great Mind John von Neumann, a Brilliant, Jovial Mathematician, was a Prodigious Servant of Science and his Country by Clary Blair Jr .

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Choose One of Five (Edith Sampson)

5 min

You graduates have every right to expect penetrating words of profound wisdom.

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Night science

8 min

If we are woken up in the middle of the night and asked “How does science work?!

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