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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz’s first novel was worth the wait.
Junot Diaz’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker magazine which listed him as one of the 20 top writers for the 21st century. He has also been published in Story, The Paris Review, and in the anthologies Best American Short Stories, and African Voices. He is best known for his two major works: the short story collection Drown (1996) and the novel Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Both were published to critical acclaim.
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Happy Accidents : The Power of Serendipity by Dr. Morton Meyers
From Booklist-
To radiologist and internist Meyers, the phrase creative scientific research
has become an oxymoron in today’s culture of research grants, peer
review boards, pharmaceutical companies, overly regimented education,
and scientific journals. Rebuffing all that, he details dozens of
medicines currently saving millions of lives that are the results of
serendipity, which he defines as "chance plus judgment"–medicines
discovered while researchers were looking in quite another, often the
opposite, direction. To be serendipitous, he says, a chance discovery
must be accompanied by the researcher’s "ability to recognize an
important anomaly or to draw analogies that are not obvious."
Creativity is key. In interviews with several Nobel laureates, many
readily admit applying so-called post facto logic to the sequence of
their reasoning when they make their presentations because, Meyers
notes, getting to a new idea is not a linear process. Meyers’ accounts
of such happy accidents as the discoveries of the lifesaving
anticoagulant Coumadin, the manic-depression therapeutic lithium, and
others is a significant brief on creativity’s critical role in medical
research. Donna Chavez
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