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How to Win a Nobel Prize
Inside Michael Houghton’s painstaking quest for a cure for Hepatitis C From New Trail, Spring 2021 Illustration of Mr. Houghton by Adam Cruft When Chiron Corp., a small biotech company in California, hired a young scientist named Michael Houghton in 1982, it was already clear he was an exceptional scientist. Several top biotech companies had […]
The Mystery of “Type 2 Fun”
From THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Sept 3, 2021 Last week, two videos landed in my inbox – field dispatches, from two friends who took off on adventures as soon as COVID-19 restrictions eased. One friend was cycling through the Rockies on a one-speed bike, sleeping rough and grinding it out over high alpine passes; the […]
From the archives: The Railbike Chronicles
From Explore magazine, August 1999. Quinton Gordon photos When you look at a grand old railway trestle from afar, it’s impossible not to feel something stir just there, below the sternum. The little matchstick beams crosshatch the sides of the bridge, and the whole effect is so delicate and spiderwebby, it seems an astonishing engineering […]
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Bruce Grierson
Bruce Grierson is a five-time Canadian National Magazine Award-winning feature writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Popular Science, Eighteen Bridges, The Walrus, Psychology Today, Time Magazine, Scientific American , The Guardian, and elsewhere. Learn more…