kenyon

The beginning of your story reminded me of the wonderful commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005 [1].

I love the Kenyon address more than any other piece of writing I can think of.

If you think it should, reread David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College speech.

Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon [now with Google’s Calico effort] has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C.

Cynthia Kenyon worked on single gene manipulations that extend nematode longevity back in the 1990s, efforts that arguably kicked off the modern wave of interest in slowing aging.

But Professor Kenyon has shown that it’s...

The best and most honest commencement speech I've ever listened to was David Foster Wallace's to the Kenyon College graduating class of 2005 that has since been published as a short book.

If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Unleash the Night Excellent expansion of the material Sean, especially the reference to the influence of your thesis on SuperGlue and self adjusting computation!

I reference the perennially over-quoted Kenyon commencement speech by David Foster Wallace only because he put it - where "it" is the trouble most people have with mindfulness - much better than I ever could: > If I choose to think this way in a store and on the freeway, fine.

As the eminent biologist Cynthia Kenyon once put it at a dinner I had the honor of attending, "One grad student can do things in an hour that evolution could not do in a billion years." According to biologists' best current knowledge, evolutions have invented a fully rotating wheel on a grand total of three occasions.

Something like Lehigh, George Washington, or Kenyon.

Kenyon gets rather attached to its buildings.

I'd say he's in good company along with Aubrey de Grey, Google, Cynthia Kenyon, Craig Ventor, Genentech, Apple and a few others...