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☆ One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion Landscape
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Allison Mccann | Amy Schoenfeld Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +18 min

One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion LandscapeIn the year since Roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country’s patchwork of abortion access. Hawaii A map showing the locations of abortion providers that have closed, stopped offering abortion services or opened a new location. Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times A year ago, the Jackson clinic was the last one standing in Mississippi. Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Terreisha Rancher, 26, recently sat in an exam room at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, pregnant and uninsured. No abortions Austin, Texas Closed Houston No abortions Madison, Wis. No abortions Memphis A grid of photos of abortion clinics in nine locations.

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☆ Muscle memory: How does it work?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But while muscle memory is real, that’s not what is actually going on in your body. Understanding how both kinds of muscle memory work can help you get off to a strong start if you’re establishing a new fitness routine or rebooting one after a break. Physiological muscle memoryThe physiological side of muscle memory has to do with the ability to quickly regain lost muscle. This form of muscle memory occurs because when you first build muscle, your body adds new cells to those muscles. Science says another type of muscle memory is related to the regrowth of actual muscle tissue.

Persons: Brett Johnson, you’re, Johnson, ” Johnson, there’s, Christopher Malcolm, ”, Nick Mitchell, ” Mitchell, Jagdish Khubchandani, Khubchandani, “ Don’t, ” Khubchandani, Melanie Radzicki McManus Organizations: CNN, Inc, Science, CNN’s, New Mexico State University Locations: Chicago, Manchester, United Kingdom, Las Cruces

A low-riding shuffle beat isn’t the Cuban-born pianist, composer and folklorist David Virelles’s most common environment. But “Carta,” Virelles’s new LP, puts him and his longtime first-call bassist, Ben Street, together with Eric McPherson, an innovator and tradition-bearer in today’s jazz drumming. This is the closest Virelles has come to making a standard-format jazz trio album, though it’s still not exactly that. You wouldn’t need to be told this album was recorded at Van Gelder Studio to realize it’s speaking with jazz history — the antique, the modern and what’s barely come into shape. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLOBen van Gelder, ‘Spectrum’

Persons: David Virelles’s, ”, Ben Street, Eric McPherson, it’s, Virelles, Don Pullen’s, Craig Taborn, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Ben van Gelder Organizations: Van Gelder Locations: Cuban

☆ 12-year-old graduated from college with a 4.0 GPA—here’s why her parents are sending her to high school
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Fiona Currie enrolled in her first college class at age 9 as an experiment. Her parents, Roderick and Blanca, had watched their eldest daughter breeze through three different public school curricula in California, skipping grades to feel challenged by schoolwork. With few other options, they took a chance with an English class at Los Angeles City College. Through a dual-enrollment program, she earned college credits while completing her middle school classes. After completing college-level classes in math, art, anthropology and more, why would a student finish high school with everyone else?

Persons: Fiona Currie, Roderick, Blanca, Fiona aced, Fiona, Mozart, It's, you've Organizations: Los, Los Angeles City, Los Angeles City College, CNBC Locations: Los Angeles, California, Blanca

☆ Revisiting the Past to Change the Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Jon Batiste | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are? You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page. Honestly, I’d probably think that, too. What you don’t hear about is the toil and the sacrifice, the vision and the commitment. You don’t hear about the nights of eating only Goya beans for dinner, wearing borrowed clothes, playing free gigs — the uncertainty, the lack of resources, money and support.

Persons: I’m, I’d, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Alvin Batiste, Goya Locations: New Orleans

☆ I got tired of big cruise ships so splashed out on a small, 140-passenger cruise. Here's why it was worth the money.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Rebecca Deurlein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I was happy to avoid the massive cruise ships carrying thousands of passengers disembarking at the same time and being frog-marched to the same attractions. The entertainment on board is very pared back and simpleYou won't get Broadway-style entertainment on a small ship. I was tired of cruise food, but the gourmet small-ship options changed my mindThe food on board was a close-second favorite. It's worth the price if you can entertain yourselfMy takeaway is, if you don't need 100 activities on board, small-ship cruising is for you. Small ships don't entertain you all day long — you find and make your entertainment.

Persons: Rebecca Deurlein, Deurlein, Caroline, I'd, Calvin Dsouza, James Beard, Mount Otemanu Organizations: Windstar Cruises Locations: Tahiti, Polynesian, Bora, Bora Bora

☆ 'Last' Beatles record to be released this year thanks to AI, Paul McCartney says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - A "last" Beatles song, featuring the voice of late member John Lennon, will be released this year thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, Paul McCartney has said. "So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record... we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI (artificial intelligence), so that then we could mix the record as you would normally do," the singer-songwriter, 80, said. [1/3] Musician Paul McCartney performs during his Got Back tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, U.S., May 13, 2022. "He was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette," McCartney said. "We had John's voice and a piano, he could separate them with AI."

Persons: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, McCartney, John, Lennon, Mario Anzuoni McCartney, Peter Jackson, we'll, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Sharon Singleton Organizations: BBC Radio, BBC, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Inglewood , California, U.S

☆ 'Last' Beatles record to be released this year thanks to AI - McCartney
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Musician Paul McCartney performs during his Got Back tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, U.S., May 13, 2022. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniLONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - A "last" Beatles song, featuring the voice of late member John Lennon, will be released this year thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, Paul McCartney has said. "So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record... we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI (artificial intelligence), so that then we could mix the record as you would normally do," the singer-songwriter, 80, said. "He was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette," McCartney said. "We had John's voice and a piano, he could separate them with AI."

Persons: Paul McCartney, Mario Anzuoni, John Lennon, McCartney, John, Lennon, Peter Jackson, we'll, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Sharon Singleton Organizations: REUTERS, Mario Anzuoni LONDON, BBC Radio, BBC, Thomson Locations: Inglewood , California, U.S

☆ Paul McCartney says AI has been used to help create a 'final' Beatles song, which features John Lennon's voice
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Paul McCartney says AI has been used to create a "final" Beatles song featuring John Lennon. Speaking on BBC's Radio 4, McCartney said AI had been used to "extricate John's voice." Paul McCartney says AI has been used to create a "final" Beatles song, featuring the late John Lennon. Speaking on BBC's Radio 4, the songwriter said: "We were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI." McCartney told Radio 4's Martha Kearney: "We had John's voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI.

Persons: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, McCartney, AI's, Lennon, Paul, Yoko Ono, Martha Kearney, Nick Cave, Drake, Grimes Organizations: BBC's, BBC News, Radio

☆ Inside Solo Per Due in Italy, 'world's smallest restaurant'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Solo Per Due – “Just for Two” in Italian – is no ordinary restaurant, and not just because of its tiny size. Its owners claim it is the smallest fine-dining establishment not only in Italy but in the world, too. Guests are required to arrive at a specific time agreed by the owners, who prepare and serve the elaborate food. “This is not a restaurant – we offer a unique, intimate experience which is at the core of our decades-long reputation. Upon request, a private driver can be arranged to pick up guests, and fireworks can be staged in the garden.

Persons: we’ll, Stanley Tucci, –, Silvia Marchetti, Antonello Nusca, you’ve, That’s, it’s, ”, Mr, Remo, he’s, Horace, “, He’s Organizations: CNN, intel Locations: Italy, Vacone, Rome

☆ Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

After the first few songs — including rousing, singalong renditions of “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Raised on Robbery” — a recognition seemed to ripple through the crowd: Mitchell’s voice had grown even stronger, richer and nimbler in the year since those Newport videos went viral. In that previous performance, Carlile had often guided Mitchell or taken on lead vocal duties herself. But at the Gorge, Mitchell was once again in control. Mitchell held court in pigtail braids, chic sunglasses and a floral silk shirt that billowed in the canyon winds. Part of any Joni Jam is not just singing with Mitchell, Carlile told the crowd, but singing for her.

Persons: ”, Carlile, Mitchell, Concertgoers, — Mitchell, Joni Jam, Mitchell’s, Sarah McLachlan, ” Annie Lennox, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, ” Melvoin, Prince, Lisa, Joni Organizations: Newport Locations: Japan, San Francisco, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

☆ Aja Monet, a Musical Poet of Love
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A crowd that included musicians and actors filled the Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue earlier this spring to hear the poet and community organizer Aja Monet speak about the subtleties of Black love, joy and uncertainty. But for Monet, there was only one celebrity in the room: Bonnie Phillips, her former college adviser, who sat rapt in the front row. “I remember her suggesting what schools to go to and it wasn’t Harvard, you know what I mean?” Monet said in a recent video interview from her home in California. Recalling her high school years in New York, Monet said she asked a lot of questions in class but didn’t have the best grades: “I think I was way more just opinionated and outspoken.”She remains both on her debut album, “When the Poems Do What They Do,” a fluid mix of jazz and poetry out Friday that evokes the spirit of 1990s spoken-word scenes. Featuring a who’s who of instrumentalists she’s known over the years — Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Samora Pinderhughes on piano, Elena Pinderhughes on flute, Weedie Braimah on djembe and Marcus Gilmore on drums — the LP is a nuanced exploration of Blackness.

Persons: Aja Monet, Monet, Bonnie Phillips, ” Monet, she’s, Xian aTunde Adjuah, Samora Pinderhughes, Elena Pinderhughes, Weedie, Marcus Gilmore Organizations: Madison, Harvard Locations: California, New York, djembe

☆ Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“He’s sitting right in the center of a lot of points,” said the noted trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire in a telephone interview. He is Black music. (He returned to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, from the Berklee College of Music, where he studied piano performance and contemporary writing and production when the pandemic took hold.) “I try to smile through it,” Haye raps with an exhausted tone. While growing up in Flatbush, he was exposed to all of this music by his mother, Adriane, who directed the youth choir at Emmanuel, and his father, Frank, who was the director of music there.

Persons: “ He’s, ”, Ambrose Akinmusire, It’s, ” Haye, “, ’, Haye, bro, I’m, — Beethoven, Bach, Kirk Franklin, Richard Smallwood, Adriane, Emmanuel, Frank Organizations: Berklee College of Music Locations: bro, ” “, Heights , Brooklyn, Haye, Flatbush

☆ What it's like to try Apple's new Vision Pro headset
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/4] Apple's Vision Pro headset is on display at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Loren ElliottCUPERTINO, California, June 5 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday let analysts and media, including Reuters, try its $3,499 Vision Pro headset. The Vision Pro headset has a "digital crown" similar to an Apple watch crown, which can be tapped and turned to make the display transition fluidly between the real world outside and the virtual world inside. Even when fully immersed in a virtual world, exterior cameras keep an eye out for other humans. If another person approaches the user, that person starts to materialize through the virtual world.

Persons: Loren Elliott CUPERTINO, Carolina Milanesi, Apple, Stephen Nellis, Sam Holmes Organizations: Developers, REUTERS, Apple Inc, Monday, Reuters, Apple, Creative, Meta Platforms Inc, Vision Pro, Thomson Locations: Cupertino , California, U.S, Loren Elliott CUPERTINO , California, Hollywood

[1/3] People walk along the Ipanema beach following the death of Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 6, 2023. REUTERS/Pilar OlivaresBRASILIA, June 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, the voice of Bossa Nova whose soft and dreamy version of "The Girl from Ipanema" was an international success in the 1960s, has died at the age of 83, her family said. Astrud performed the vocals in English, including the duet "The Girl from Ipanema" which became the album's major hit. "The Girl from Ipanema" was the first song the 22-year-old Astrud recorded and launched her career almost by accident. She later moved to the United States, where she toured with Getz, singing Bossa Nova and American jazz standards.

Persons: Astrud Gilberto, Pilar Olivares BRASILIA, Gilberto, Sofia Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Getz, Astrud, " Getz, Weinert, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Steve Van Zandt, Sade, Lana Del Rey, Ivan Lins, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Anthony Boadle, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, New York, Thomson Locations: Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Philadelphia, United States, American, Salvador, Bahia, Brazilian

☆ I tried Apple’s new headset. Here’s what it’s like to use
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The headset blends both virtual reality and augmented reality, a technology that overlays virtual images on live video of the real world. The new Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the annual WWDC23 developer conference with the announcement of the new Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. During another demo, an Apple employee wearing a Vision Pro headset FaceTimed me from the other side of campus. The Vision Pro has the potential to do all of that in an even more striking way.

Persons: I’d, Alicia Keys, Tim Cook, Apple, Justin Sullivan, “, Alan Dye, else’s, ”, Cook, Bob Iger Organizations: CNN, Apple, Apple Vision, Apple Worldwide, Vision Pro, Vision, Hollywood, Disney, Geographic, Marvel, ESPN, Apple Watch Locations: Cupertino , California

☆ Miriam Silverman Is ‘Unafraid of Embracing the Darkness’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Rachel Sherman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Isaac recalled an experience one evening of “utter alienation” as he sat next to Silverman onstage. He felt as if he had been pulled out of the orchestra seats as an observer, and momentarily wondered if he’d be able to remember his lines. “I feel like I am a lucky member of the audience,” he said. (Alongside stage acting, Silverman has also had small parts in TV shows like “Blue Bloods,” “The Black List,” “Fleishman Is in Trouble” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”)“I’ve always felt like there were so many different paths that I could have taken, or maybe still could take,” Silverman said. “But to me that’s related to what I love about acting, which is an endless curiosity for different things.”

Persons: Isaac, Silverman, he’d, ”, “, ” Silverman, Rizzo, Tom Stoppard’s, Annie ”, “ Electra, Maisel, “ I’ve Organizations: Brown Locations: Manhattan, Providence, R.I

☆ After Walking Offstage, a Concert Pianist Changes Her Tune
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

AUGUST BLUE, by Deborah LevyIn the work of Deborah Levy, certain elements recur in ever new arrangements: swimming, seafood, bees and silence; brokenness and recovery; the patriarchy. In Levy’s latest novel, “August Blue,” it is musical recomposition that becomes the overt, and sometimes overly self-conscious, metaphor for female revolt and reinvention. For a little over two minutes, she went off script, playing music that came to her unbidden, before walking offstage. At a flea market in Athens, this other woman snapped up two mechanical dancing horses that the pianist also wanted. While she chases what may be hallucinatory glimpses of the doppelgänger across Europe, she takes to wearing the trilby hat the mystery woman dropped at the market.

Persons: Deborah Levy, Booker, “, Levy’s, unemployable Locations: British, Vienna, Athens, London, Paris, Sardinia, Greece, Europe

☆ A TriBeCa Loft Where Rafael Viñoly Worked, and Played the Piano
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Vivian Marino | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Viñoly trained as a classical pianist in his native Uruguay before embarking on a successful career in architecture. The New York-based Rafael Viñoly Architects, founded four decades ago, is known around the world for its major commercial, residential and cultural structures, like the new Carrasco Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay, and 20 Fenchurch Street, nicknamed the “Walkie-Talkie” building, in London. Roman Viñoly says he is now ready to sell the co-op, situated between Duane and Thomas Streets, and has placed it on the market for $2.5 million. Mr. Viñoly says that both he and his father had fond memories of the downtown loft. “It’s a very small community,” he said of the four-unit building with a ground-floor commercial tenant, “and we all look after each other.”

Persons: Viñoly, Rafael Viñoly, ’, Roman Viñoly, Thomas, Nicholas Athanail, Spencer H, Cutler, ” Organizations: Rafael Viñoly Architects, Carrasco Airport, Fenchurch, Corcoran Group Locations: Uruguay, New York, Montevideo, London, New York City, Midtown, Duane

☆ Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“But Here We Are” has a back-to-basics immediacy and intensity that was missing from the last few Foo Fighters albums. (As a companion piece, they also released a cheeky collection of Bee Gees covers.) The undercurrent holding all of “But Here We Are” together is not an idea so much as raw emotion. Grohl’s melodies are as soaring and anthemic as they’ve sounded in years; his vocals are freshly impassioned and heartfelt. The towering title track layers intricate guitar work atop skittering percussion before a chorus comes along and sweeps everything into a tidal wave of sound.

Persons: Grohl, ”, “, ” Grohl, Violet, Hawkins Organizations: Foo, “, Bee Gees, Highways, Roswell Records, RCA

☆ Alicia Keys Is Making a Musical. Her Own Life Inspired the Story.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than a decade, Alicia Keys has been quietly developing a musical inspired by her own turbulent adolescence growing up among artists in New York City. Now that musical, “Hell’s Kitchen,” is almost ready for viewing: It will be staged this fall at the Public Theater, the downtown nonprofit where “A Chorus Line” and “Hamilton” were born. The show will feature some of Keys’s best known songs, as well as new material she has written for the musical. “This is a major, major turning point in my journey.”“Hell’s Kitchen” doesn’t precisely track the events of Keys’s own life, but there are strong parallels. (Ali, like Keys, is transformed by a passion for piano.)

Persons: Alicia Keys, “ Hamilton ”, Keys, ”, Ali Organizations: Public Theater Locations: New York City, Manhattan Plaza

☆ Billy Joel Will End Madison Square Garden Residency in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The roster of special guests has included Bruce Springsteen, Tony Bennett, Olivia Rodrigo and Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel. The residency has continued on a roughly monthly schedule since its inception, aside from an 18-month break during the Covid-19 pandemic, returning in November 2021. According to the trade publication Pollstar, Joel’s residency has played to nearly 1.7 million people through its 89th performance in April, and sold $207 million in tickets. The idea for the residency came about following Celine Dion’s two record-breaking runs in Las Vegas, which started in 2003 and ultimately sold about $660 million in tickets. Last year, for example, Harry Styles played 15 dates at the Garden and, in late 2022 and 2023, another 15 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

Persons: ”, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Bennett, Olivia Rodrigo, Joel’s, Alexa Ray Joel, Celine Dion’s, Joel, “, ” Dennis Arfa, Harry Styles Organizations: MSG, York State, New York Times, Kia Locations: “ Allentown, “, York, Las Vegas, Vegas, ”, Inglewood , Calif

☆ How to Be a Star by Not Giving Your All
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Robert Ito | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

IF NORA IS NOTHING LIKE many of Lee’s previous party-girl characters, neither is Lee herself. She’s a mother, for starters, of two young boys with her husband, Russ Armstrong. On set, “Greta is like a Hunter S. Thompson-meets-Fellini character,” Natasha Lyonne said in an interview. Isn’t this completely wild?”Lee, now 40, was born in Los Angeles and spent most of her childhood here. After high school, Lee attended Northwestern University in the hopes of going into musical theater.

Persons: NORA, Lee, She’s, Russ Armstrong, Greta, Thompson, Fellini, ” Natasha Lyonne, “, “ I’m, ”, ” Lee, Liza Minnelli Organizations: ”, Northwestern University Locations: Los Angeles, American

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (Lindsay’s Version)
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Dear listeners,This past weekend, along with more than 200,000 people in the New York metropolitan area, I attended Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. I saw sights I will never forget: more than one person, in late May, dressed head to toe as a Christmas tree (an inside joke about Swift growing up on a Christmas tree farm … I think? ); a father proudly wearing a handmade shirt that read “Real Men Listen to Taylor Swift”; enough sequins per square inch that, when the sun hit it right, MetLife Stadium could probably be seen from space. But, of course, I also saw a generation-defining pop superstar performing at the top of her game, throughout a sprawling, near-three-and-a-half-hour set that highlighted her stylistic versatility, physical stamina and ongoing evolution as a songwriter. Though Swift has long had a flair for both spectacle and intimacy in a live setting, what I couldn’t shake (shake, shake) during this marathon 45-song set was how completely she’s come into her power as a performer.

Persons: Taylor, Swift, Taylor Swift, Jon Caramanica, “, ” Organizations: MetLife Locations: New York

☆ Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, Once Ignored, Is Told Anew in Song
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Lauren Rosenfield | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During the summer of 2020, the composer and lyricist Madeline Myers spent hours at the piano in her Manhattan apartment as she struggled to write three songs for her new musical, “Double Helix,” about the British chemist Rosalind Franklin. The challenge wasn’t strictly about marrying words to a score, but conveying the science of a crucial moment in the discovery of DNA’s structure — and making the songs entertaining. Franklin’s experiments, in which she successfully used X-ray crystallography to create images of DNA, became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s groundbreaking 1953 discovery of the double helix structure. The breakthrough underpins our modern understanding of genetics and biology, but for years Franklin received none of the credit. (She died of cancer in 1958 at the age of 37; her male colleagues were later awarded the Nobel Prize.)

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