“I have always disliked being photographed, but I intensely dislike being photographed by Anna. It is a strange thing to say, I know, but when she was behind a camera she was like a blind person, something in her eyes went dead, and essential light was extinguished. She seemed not to be looking through the lens, at her subject, but rather to be peering inward, into herself in search of defining some perspective, some essential point of view. She would hold the camera steady at eye-level and thrust her raptor’s head out sideways and stare for a second, sightlessly, it might be, as if one’s features were written in some form of Braille that she was capable of reading at a distance: When she pressed the shutter it seemed the least important thing, no more than a gesture to placate the apparatus.” (

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A developing field called metabonomics analyses metabolites in body fluids in order to better select drug compounds. This field has been accelerated by recent observations in the laboratories of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Here, the dramatic effect of gut microbiota on drug …