The second child left on her 18th birthday …she came to our home at 8 and had very serious bonding issues. They both were the 2 we worked with the hardest. I can’t help but wonder if we cheated the 2 youngest trying to save the oldest 2. As a mom I cry almost every single ...
If we’ve met in real life, probably I have talked your ear off about Kate Milford’sGreenglass Housebooks. Her kind of world-building is one of my favorite kinds: our world, but different. And the ways that it’s different are so inventive and compelling to me, from Nagspeake’s sh...
Complete People Can Love Completely I remember well the first time my young daughter gushed about a new boyfriend, saying, “He completes me!” We had many long talks deep into the night discussing how love can be real and true only when two people who are complete within themselves come t...
At the end of January I was honoured to be a co-organiser of the first PDA conference in Bristol focusing solely on adults. It was the first event of this size that we’d organised and not to sound big headed but it was bloody good and well attended. Feedback was extremely positive. ...
Obesity is a major risk factor for many common diseases and has a substantial heritable component. To identify new genetic determinants, we performed exome-sequence analyses for adult body mass index (BMI) in up to 587,027 individuals. We identified rare loss-of-function variants in two genes...
I watched Joan Baez dance on her 80th birthday! I saw the original cast of Ragtime share their memories and the cast of The West Wing come together to play trivia and encourage people to vote. These moments brought me joy. But my daily consumption of YouTube and Facebook does not ...
was strengthened through the analysts’ regular discussions of contextual meaning through increasing familiarity with the transcripts’ contents and participants’ intentions, and open coding ascribed additional subthemes to the initial organizational scheme when omissions and new ideas were detected [130]. ...
For our QA plan and because of limitations for traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic, we performed initial QA using two phantoms that reside at each of the sites (ACR-anatomic and f-BIRN-functional) and two specific phantoms that are shipped to the sites (HARDI-diffusion—Supplemental Figure...