FYI March 20, 2021

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On This Day

1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on 20 March 1883, was one of the first intellectual property treaties. It established a Union for the protection of industrial property. The Convention is currently still in force. The substantive provisions of the Convention fall into three main categories: national treatment, priority right and common rules.[1]
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1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
Song Jiaoren (Chinese: 宋敎仁; pinyin: Sòng Jiàorén; Wade–Giles: Sung Chiao-jen, [sʊ̂ŋ tɕjâuɻə̌n]; Given name at birth: Liàn 鍊; Courtesy name: Dùnchū 鈍初) (5 April 1882 – 22 March 1913) was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the Kuomintang Party to electoral victories in China’s first democratic election. He based his appeal on the upper class gentry, landowners, and merchants. Historians have concluded that provisional president, Yuan Shikai, was responsible for his assassination on March 20, 1913.[1]

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Born On This Day

1879 – Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (d. 1960)[3]
Maud Leonora Menten (March 20, 1879 – July 17, 1960) was a Canadian bio-medical and medical researcher who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. She is primarily known for her work with Leonor Michaelis on enzyme kinetics in 1913.[1] The paper has been translated into English.[2] [3]

Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario and studied medicine at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1904, M.B. 1907, M.D. 1911, Ph.D., 1916). She was among the first women in Canada to earn a medical doctorate.[4] She completed her thesis work at University of Chicago. At that time women were not allowed to do research in Canada, so she decided to do research in other countries such as the United States and Germany.

In 1912 she moved to Berlin where she worked with Leonor Michaelis and co-authored their paper in Biochemische Zeitschrift[1] which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex. This relationship between reaction rate and enzyme–substrate concentration is known as the Michaelis–Menten equation.

After studying with Michaelis in Germany she entered graduate school at the University of Chicago where she obtained her PhD in 1916.[5] Her dissertation was titled “The Alkalinity of the Blood in Malignancy and Other Pathological Conditions; Together with Observations on the Relation of the Alkalinity of the Blood to Barometric Pressure”. Menten worked at the University of Pittsburgh (1923–1950),[6] becoming Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and head of pathology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Her final promotion to full Professor, in 1948, was at the age of 69 in the last year of her career.[5][7] Her final academic post was as a research fellow at the British Columbia Medical Research Institute.

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The Rural Blog: Al Smith, who co-founded the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and left a broad legacy, dies at 94
 
 
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Today: This chef worked with a Holocaust survivor to re-create the lost recipes of his childhood Chef Alon Shaya and Steven Fenves worked on the recipe project over Zoom during the pandemic.
 
 
 
 
By Mary Honkus, People: Dolly Parton Teams Up with Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams on a New Limited Edition Flavor Sales from each pint will benefit the singer’s Imagination Library Foundation
Sales from the upcoming flavor will benefit Parton’s Imagination Library — the nonprofit organization she founded in 1995 that gifts free books to children from birth until they reach five years of age to encourage early reading.

While the flavor won’t be announced for a few weeks, you can be one of the first to hear what it is by signing up for notifications at jenis.com/dolly — or just keep up with Jeni’s social media.

 
 
 
 
By Nilina Mason-Campbell, The Kitchn: The Super-Sized Dip from Costco That Has Me Eating Way More Vegetables
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Ideas

Rebecca at Soap Deli News Blog: Get Your Skin Ready for Spring
 
 
 
 

Recipes

By Betty Crocker Kitchens: Alfredo Vegetable Pasta Bake (Cooking for 2)
 
 
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By Annamarie Higley, Taste of Home: 50 Fun Recipes to Make With Kids Over Spring Break
 
 
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