Trieste, Italy, 1971. It was a bright summer afternoon when I arrived in Trieste on the Orient Express. Back then the famous train was...

Buenos Aires – Troy, NY,  1961-1971. Losing my parents at an early age messed up my life for decades, although you would not know it by...

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1968. My brown valise, the one you met in one of my early tales of immigration, kept quiet for a long time. It...

Jorge's upcoming book, Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology , is now available for...

Washington D.C. 1983. One morning in 1983, I found myself sitting at the Immigration Office in downtown D.C. for my required citizenship...

Cambridge , Massachusetts, 1977. It was the Fall of 1977 and I was back at Harvard to talk to Frank Westheimer, my thesis advisor. I had...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1976. Within a few weeks of starting in Westheimer’s lab at Harvard, I had a baseball crisis. It had all...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. Soon after arriving at Harvard, I went to the office of Professor Frank Westheimer for the obligatory...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. Being accepted at Harvard for my PhD in chemistry was perhaps the best ticket I could receive for entry...

From: “The Recollection: Bringing Back my Long-Gone Parents, One Object at a Time” By Jorge Goldstein In my last blog, Bad Habits, I...

Troy, New York, 1968-1971. It did not take me long after arriving in Troy in 1968, to start developing misgivings about the hegemonistic...

From: “The Recollection: Bringing Back my Long-Gone Parents, One Object at a Time” By Jorge Goldstein In my last blog I mentioned in...

Troy, N.Y., Fall 1968. One of the first things I had to do upon arrival at Rensselaer Polytechnic was deal with the foreign language...

Troy, N.Y., Fall 1968. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Student Union, at the top of the hill, was a modern building, a big contrast...

Troy, New York, Fall 1968. I arrived in upstate New York during the fall of 1968, ready to transfer into the Rensselaer Polytechnic...

On Monday, July 31, 2023, Jorge was profiled in a "Perspective" piece for The Washington Post, titled "Memories of an old bus station are...