Daniel Nester

What it's like having a birthday only every four years...

This article draws from a large prospective international study, which reported of a 1.3-fold increased risk in respiratory cancer among smokers' children, along with other findings.

The Broad Street brogue — soda is sewda, house is hay-ouse — is sadly absent in the movies....

My real friends will know what I'm talking about....

Report on a phase 2 study on the targeted therapy agent PS-341 on patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, as reported by researchers at the American Society of Hematology.

“Ticonderoga’s Star Trek Set Tour: Where No Fan Has Gone Before,” Saratoga Living‘s design issue, 2020.

This practice management article discusses a Canadian study that compared the frequency and probability of medical professionals who would choose outpatient oral antibiotic courses of treatment versus parents of children receiving chemotherapy.

I find myself replacing things from my childhood, item by item, in the hope the child returns....

This article reports on a Beth Israel study on Glucagon-like peptide, or GLP-1. Researchers found dose-dependant increases in mean arterial-blood pressure and heart rate in rats.

“No Escape from Reality,” essay on Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic, Barrelhouse, November 3, 2018.

What should a town do when part of its history puts it in a bad light?...

On the eve of their Fourth of July concert in Salt Lake City, the Beach Boys still exhibit the political tensions that divide us all....

New York City is built on the backs of earnest, reticent, frugal, and ambitious Midwesterners. These are "the settlers" who make up the "Third New York" immortalized …...

A Common Pornography is neither common nor, by today's standards, pornographic. It is more accurate to call Kevin Sampsell's fragmented, moving memoir a …...

The life of a poet in New York means recognizing the important appellations and knowing when to take the (grant) money and run....