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Women composers in the Regency

Olivia, my heroine in A Note of Scandal, is a high-born lady (daughter of a marquess), so you’d think she had it made. But what she longs to do – write music and perform it – was considered déclassé, and her parents feel so strongly about it she would never even think to do it. [...]

Free!

No not the book, sorry, but postcards! Send me your snail-mail address (nicky@nickypenttila.com) [email fixed, sorry sorry] and I’ll send one right out; if you promise to share I’ll send you more than one.

The Blasted Brain

[by me for the Dana Foundation blog. See more great stuff there!] Traumatic brain injury (TBI), the signature injury of the current U.S. wars, calls for the nation’s best “emergency medicine,” Kevin Kit Parker told a group of top scientists, medicine makers, and policy makers, this spring at the One Mind for Research conference in [...]

Spring

These greeted me as I stepped outside each morning for a week. Vanished already in life, they greet me now only in pixelworld.

Location, location, location

Our top story this week isn’t brain but immunology: Delivering a flu vaccine deep into the lung — instead of into your arm or your, ahem, elsewhere — might not only improve how it works but do so at a much lower dosage of the virus. After all, you have flu mainly in your lungs. [...]

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