As a founder of the California Ear Institute at Stanford University, Rodney Perkins met many of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley. Among the surgeon's friends - and sometime patients - were ...

In 2013, George Packer wrote in this magazine that “the hottest tech start-ups are solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that’s who thinks them up.” If ...

Bosse High School, class of 1953, Evansville, Ind. “My class ranking was in the middle, but I did really well in science.” “You’ve heard of injecting collagen for wrinkles? I was trying to develop a ...