The basement hideaway that nurtured a generation of blind innovators

A generation of leaders, innovators, creatives, and geniuses who are reshaping the world have roots in The Cave. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators By Isabella Cueto Joshua Miele, a former denizen of The Cave at UC Berkeley, at his home in Berkeley, Calif. (Laura Morton for STAT) Joshua Miele spent hours every day in the late 1980s in one of eight bunker-like rooms lining The Cave’s windowless hallway, studying, running his fingertips along pages of braille, and dictating his homework to a reader who transcribed it. Today, he’s a MacArthur “genius grant” winner who builds adaptive technologies at Amazon. He is just one of a generation of leaders, innovators, creatives, and geniuses who are reshaping the world — and have roots in The Cave. Read More Sponsor content by STAT Events A conversation with the STAT Madness crowd favorite Each year, universities and research institutions across the country compete in STAT Madness, a bracket-style tournament, in order to be recognized as having produced the top biomedical innovation or discovery of the year. Register for a virtual event on April 20 to hear researchers from the winning team discuss their work.  More great reads from STAT this week ‘A slow-moving glacier’: NIH’s sluggish and often opaque efforts to study long Covid draw patient, expert ire By Rachel Cohrs With pharma still struggling in Alzheimer’s, health tech companies want a swing By Katie Palmer Even as medicine becomes more diverse, main authors in elite journals remain mostly white and male By Usha Lee McFarling Hospitals, including some flush with cash, scramble to grab last scraps of federal Covid dollars By Bob Herman Opinion: The parallel plights of two communities 2,000 miles apart wracked by the pandemic By Tom Sequist Afghan refugees, grappling with grief and trauma, face barriers to mental health care By Grace Deng and Jenny Jiin Huh UnitedHealth’s deal with LHC highlights broader interest in home health industry By Bob Herman and Tara Bannow Saturday, April 2, 2022       1 Exchange Pl, Suite 201, Boston, MA 02109 ©2022, All Rights Reserved. I no longer wish to receive STAT emails Update Email Preferences | Contact Us | View In Browser