Dhruv Khullar
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at The New Yorker
physician & researcher @weillcornell | writer @newyorker
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link.newyorker.com | Pauline Kael |Nathan Heller |Hanif Abdurraqib |Dhruv Khullar
The movie critic’s informal manifesto reflects both her brilliance and her blind spots during a revolutionary period in Hollywood. View in browser | New Takes on the classics. To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker has invited contributors to revisit notable works from the archive. You’re on the free list. Subscribe to enjoy unlimited access to a century of reporting, commentary, criticism, and fiction.
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businessandamerica.com | Dhruv Khullar
Bush’s vision may be as responsible as any other for nearly a century of American scientific dominance. Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time: the internet, A.I., crispr, Ozempic, and the mRNA vaccines that saved untold lives during the covid pandemic.
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newyorker.com | Dhruv Khullar
The United States, for much of its history, was less an engine of scientific progress than a beneficiary of it. Pasteur, Koch, Lister, Mendel, Curie, Fleming—the giants who midwifed modern medicine were not Americans but Europeans. During the Second World War, the balance shifted. President Franklin Roosevelt created the Office of Scientific Research and Development and tapped Vannevar Bush, a former dean of M.I.T., to lead it.
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newyorker.com | Dhruv Khullar
In today’s newsletter, Merve Emre recommends books for celebrating friendship on Galentine’s Day. But, first, Dhruv Khullar on his recent trip to Mars, for this week’s 100th Anniversary Issue. Plus:• What will happen to the Department of Education?
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newyorker.com | Dhruv Khullar
On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, atmospheric friction warmed up its heat shield so much that molten debris flew off. Rapid deceleration imposed more than six times the force of gravity on Kelly and his crewmates, the cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov.
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Enjoying joining @hari @AmanpourCoPBS for this wide-ranging conversation on ultra-processed foods, chronic disease, and the steps we can take toward healthier diets:
Dr. @DhruvKhullar is a physician and contributing writer for The @NewYorker, and he's been investigating the dangers of ultra-processed food in our diets. He @hari to talk about his findings. https://t.co/1JOY6hEY15
In the @NewYorker Anniversary Issue, I write about what space travel does to the human body—and the scientists trying to figure out how to keep people healthy on a roundtrip journey to Mars... https://t.co/OiepSIJhJK
