Devin Katayama
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83 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Solitary is a total degradation of a human life.
The clause seems to express a great deal of humanity on which account I have no objection to it. But as it seems to have no meaning in it, I do not think it necessary. What is meant by the terms excessive bail? Who are to be the judges? What is understood by excessive fines? It lies with the court to determine. No cruel and unusual punishment is to be inflicted.
It is sometimes necessary to hang a man. Villains often deserve whipping and perhaps having their ears cut off. But are we, in future, to be prevented from inflicting these punishments because they are cruel? If a more lenient mode of correcting vice and deterring others from the commission of it could be invented, it would be very prudent in the legislature to adopt it.
But until we have some security that this will be done, we ought not to be restrained from making necessary laws by any declaration of this kind.
Devin Katayama.
I think I have about 20, 25 years left.
In the middle of the 19th century, Ilya Ivanovich and his wife and children left St. Petersburg, Russia for the countryside.
It was here, on a little slice of land outside the main village, that they would welcome their fifth child into the world.
These descriptions of Eli Mechnikoff's early life are from the biography his wife, Olga, wrote about him.
This is Lina Zeldovich. She's currently a science and medical journalist in New York City. But she grew up in the former Soviet Union, where Eli Metchnikoff was a household name.
She remembers hearing about his famous discoveries the same way you might have learned about Albert Einstein's E equals MC squared.
Metchnikoff was born in a time and place when medicine was only just starting to modernize. The human body wasn't really understood, and diseases like cholera and typhoid were really scary. Many doctors still believed in bloodletting and would actually treat patients with toxic substances like mercury and lead. So medical care itself was basically synonymous with suffering.
So Metchnikoff grows up to become a zoologist, and he couldn't have picked a better time because when he was just 14 years old, a new theory rocked the scientific world. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
And he dedicated his early career to researching that theory.
This is Luba Vukonsky. She's a science writer at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
This trip to Sicily would change everything for Metchnikoff. He and his wife were staying by the seaside in a cottage overlooking the bright blue Messina Strait. The Strait was home to all sorts of marine creatures. And while his wife went out to explore Sicily, Metchnikoff would spend long days holed up in the cottage, staring at jars filled with seawater and tiny organisms.
One day, he had his eye pressed up against his microscope, peering inside these minuscule starfish larvae.
These were cells that wandered inside the larvae, gobbling up food and other particles. Meshnikov had seen these cells in action before, but that day, watching them go about their business, it struck him. Music
If the cells attacked the thorn as a foreign invader, his theory would be correct.
Watching this unfold through his microscope, his mind was blown.
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