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How One Texas Entrepreneur Aims to Transform the World With Artificial...
Ben Lamm doesn’t sell spoons. Declaring as much is a favorite line of his whenever someone asks what his two-year-old company, Hypergiant, does. What he means is that he doesn’t produce anything as...
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How Close Are We to Creating Human Organs on a 3D Printer?
Sitting in his Rice University lab back in 2013, Jordan Miller was feeling stuck. The bioengineering assistant professor had spent months trying to do something no one had ever done before: create...
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Does the World Need Doctors With Engineering Degrees?
Now I’m going to percuss,” Frederick Wang says just before delivering a sharp tap to Mason Danna’s back. “Can you exhale and hold that exhale for me?”With Wang clad in a white lab coat and Danna...
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Texas A&M Slaps Back at Harvard Critics of Its Beef-Industry-Backed Research
Since last fall Texas A&M University has found itself embroiled in a controversy that has shined a light on the messy, conflict-riven business of scientists accepting funding from organizations...
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Bob Schieffer Remembers Texas Journalist Jim Lehrer (1934-2020)
Jim Lehrer, the longtime PBS news anchor and Texan, died Thursday at his home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 85. Lehrer spent much of his childhood in Beaumont and San Antonio, and his journalism...
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FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on His Plans for Transforming the Agency
In mid-December, Dr. Stephen Hahn, an oncologist who most recently worked as chief medical executive at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, became the twenty-fourth commissioner of the federal Food...
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How FDA Chief Stephen Hahn Found Himself Between a Rock and a Hard Place
On the morning of March 19, as a pandemic paralyzed American life and cratered the global economy, Dr. Stephen Hahn stepped before the White House press corps and corrected his boss. The commissioner...
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Should Neiman Marcus Exist?
Known for his cinema verité explorations of American institutions, the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman trained his camera on Dallas’s flagship Neiman Marcus location in 1982. To watch the...
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How a Texas Expert on Swine Flu Had to Change Her Game
Lauren Ancel Meyers was at home with her family in Austin one evening in April 2009 when she saw a news report about a deadly new strain of influenza circulating in Mexico City. She and her husband...
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Why Urban Sprawl Could Actually Be a Boon in the New Economy
In May, I caught up with Richard Fisher, a former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, to talk about the state’s long economic recovery ahead.Texas Monthly: I’ve heard you say that...
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Richard Linklater, the Everyday Auteur
“Last night felt like the end of something,” Richard Linklater said as we sat outside his Austin production office in mid-March, on the day Donald Trump declared the coronavirus pandemic a national...
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Richard Linklater’s Career in Seven Essential Scenes
Throughout his more than thirty years as a filmmaker, Richard Linklater has made a career of immortalizing the often unappreciated significance of everyday life. The Oscar-nominated director’s twenty...
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Why Dallas Is Testing the Recently Deceased to Combat COVID-19
It was mid-March when Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, the chief medical examiner of Dallas County, started to worry. As the number of deaths due to COVID-19 mounted nationwide day-by-day, Barnard felt he wasn’t...
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How Robots Are Revolutionizing Nursing
Rolling down the hall, the most popular new staffer at Dallas’s Medical City Heart Hospital accepts a fist bump from a nurse before stopping into a supply room to pick up gauze and saline solution to...
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What ‘Boys State’ Says About the Future of Texas Politics
President George Washington’s famous warning about the dangers of partisan politics, delivered in his 1796 farewell address, appears on a title card at the outset of the new documentary Boys State. Yet...
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What’s Harvard’s Beef With Texas A&M?
John Sharp didn’t mince words when he fired off an angry letter to Harvard University’s president back in January. The chancellor of the Texas A&M University system wrote to decry the actions of...
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Texas A&M Hopes a High-tech Kiosk Will Address a Health Care Crisis in Milam...
Joyce Dalley approached the shiny, imposing kiosk cautiously. Some uninformed passerby might have mistaken it for a supersized photo booth, but the 78-year-old resident of the small rural town of...
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Remembering Wick Allison, Founder of D Magazine, a Fierce Critic and Champion...
Few people seemed to relish the rough-and-tumble of Dallas politics more than Wick Allison. He loved the city and spent much of his life pushing, prodding, and browbeating to make it a better place....
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Why Is American Airlines So Infuriating?
United States senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, wasn’t happy when he boarded an American Airlines flight from DFW to Portland in early July. The day before, the airline had adjusted its...
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The Funny, Bittersweet ‘Dazed and Confused’ Oral History Captures the Cult...
In the early nineties, director Richard Linklater surprised even some of his closest collaborators by choosing to follow the success of his oddball indie Slacker with a coming-of-age comedy for a big...
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Relentless Rains, Bedeviled Bureaucrats, and Misplaced Mollusks: The...
Marked “RUSH!” and “PERISHABLE,” the precious cargo arrived at Brad Lomax’s Corpus Christi home just about as late as it could have. In his haste to collect the white cardboard box, which represented...
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Sixteen of the Most Influential Texas Business Icons of the Past 50 Years
In Texas, business and innovation move in two directions: people come here to turn their big dreams into real things, and people who are from here export their brilliant ideas to the rest of the world....
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An Ode to Mrs Baird’s, the Fluffy White Bread of My Texas Childhood
Generations of Dallas denizens can still recall zipping past the Mrs Baird’s factory along North Central Expressway at Mockingbird Lane and encountering the heavenly scent of baking bread. For decades,...
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Black-Owned Land Is Under Siege in the Brazos Valley
I. The land had been theirs since long before any of them could remember. As a child in the fifties, Lawrence Smith grew up playing in its spring-fed creek and riding in a mule-drawn wagon driven by...
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A Texas Dinosaur Sculptor Talks About Her Jurassic Dream Job
Casandra Sowards, who is 26, is the lead sculptor for Billings Productions, which is based in Allen and makes animatronic creatures for museums, zoos, and other exhibits.I just loved dinosaurs when I...
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