“All over the world, tens of thousands of times a year, some doctor was trying to improve on some unsatisfying treatment for some deadly affliction. And no one was recording what had worked and what had not.”
The Washington Post
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The Searchers
“[T]he work being done at JPL is the most inspiring research and exploration being done by any humans on our planet.”
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The Canary
“Christopher Mark, I decided, just had to have some deeply personal stake in the problem he solved. But then I found Christopher Mark’s number and called him.”
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“In America, how you spell your name says a lot about when you were born.”