Overheard Online

I’d be willing to bet that if you scanned the whole history of pharmaceutical discovery, you’d find people at every point thinking “You know, in any thirty years they should have all this figured out”. But the years go by, and they - we - don’t. Give it another thirty years, you think?
In the Pipeline on Pharmaceuticals

Pre-med students may be victims of a broken system. Medical school admissions should be competitive, but the standards have become so stringent that scholars must nearly abandon their individuality to ceaselessly study. Perhaps, instead of separating the brightest students from the rest, pre-med programs weed out all but the few who are willing to give everything up — hobbies, athletics, even their curiosity — for the sake of a high-paying job as a body mechanic.
Wired on Pre-med Students