Archives: Unpacking the Lives of Psychiatric Patients

When New York state closed down a 126-year-old public psychiatric hospital in 1995, workers found an attic full of old suitcases left behind by residents who had died after living much of their lives — sometimes decades — in the institution.
The contents of the forgotten luggage now form the basis of a unique exhibit called […]

Jon Najarian notes on Minyanville.com that India’s Sensex Index has managed to avoid any damage from the unrest in neighboring Pakistan (the Karachi Stock Market dropped nearly 5% today, the first day of trading since Benazir Bhutto was killed last week; the Sensex recorded a modest 0.4% gain). “Given the turmoil in Pakistan, you might […]

The holidays are (almost) over — and your digital camera is full. Question is, after you download the images, email them to a few relatives and post some on flickr or Facebook, what happens then?
Entrepreneur Gabe Zichermann believes, not incorrectly I think, that most of our images get left in our computers gathering digital […]

Could primates have evolved into humans without knowing how to cook? For 10 years, Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham has gathered data that he says show that the discovery of cooking allowed humans to evolve. The only snag, according to Scientific American: He has yet to prove that humans’ ancestors could control fire, a missing […]

The year 2007 is one for the record books. The largest leveraged buyout in history; the beginnings of what could be the second largest deal in history; and the biggest banking deal.
It also is the year this blog was launched. So, being in an end-of-year state-of-mind, Deal Journal decided to look back at our […]

A Harvard neurosurgeon has accused the chief of neurosurgery at a prestigious Harvard-affiliated hospital of discriminating against her because she is a woman, the Boston Globe reports.
Sagun Tuli, an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, filed a complaint in federal court this month alleging that Arthur Day, chief of neurosurgery at Brigham and […]

A picture of what may or may not be the next-generation Blackberry 9000 popped up in an online forum. The device does not appear to have a touchscreen, but it does sport a black iPhone-like sheen. Again, this could be the real deal, a hoax, or some unrelated prototype. But one thing […]

The high courts of Ohio and Oregon issued divergent rulings late last week on the issue of damages caps. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a state law limiting the amount of pain-and-suffering damages a person can collect in tort lawsuits. The Oregon Supremes ruled that a damages-caps state statute as applied to […]

People aren’t always forthcoming all of the time. On occasion, this is due to lack of oversight, or being unaware, or someone hiding under a desk lest bad news come to light. In any case, certain admissions happen just a little bit too late, or seem just, well, ridiculous. Here’s a look back at a […]

Cameron Stracher’s essays on the legal profession, which often appear in the WSJ, have been the subject of some of our more provocative posts. Today Stracher, a professor at New York Law, continues his run with a WSJ op-ed picking apart the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings.
Stracher pegs his column to the news […]