In late 2010, Nish Acharya arrived in Washington, DC, ready to work. President Barack Obama had appointed Acharya to be his director of innovation and entrepreneurship
Like many people, I had sought a solution for my anxiety in therapy and medication.
Like almost all scientists, we also struggled with the concept of nutritional treatment of mental disorders when we first began our research, but once we engaged with the science, we realized that this kind of approach has amazing potential.
Looking down at the boy strapped to the metal table before her, Kiva Meridan leaned in close and whispered, “Take a deep breath.”
Her baby’s fingers look like small furled leaves and Louise lifts them to her lips to kiss.
No one suspected the blond boy’s cargo as he drove his crude pony cart through the streets of Charleston.
Aggie unfolded the piece of paper and lifted it onto the tip of her forefinger.
From her early years we’d made a few trips together on Rough Guide research assignments to destinations in Europe.
Discarded medical equipment litters the floor: surgical tools blistered with rust, broken bottles, jars, the scratched spine of an old invalid chair.
I stood in the darkness of my living room, my knuckles white, my fingers tense around the sticky rubber handle of my Little League baseball bat, staring out the window into the night, trying desperately to protect my wife
‘The full moon rose over us,’ Layla sang, while she carefully joined two pieces of metal together in the broiling, cramped welding bay.
