Day 0: Do I Need to Wear Pants? When a group of researchers at ISI invited me to come climb a glacier with them, I had very little preconception of what that actually meant. I tend to be naive about challenges, thinking, “oh boy, that sounds like fun!” long before “wait, how am I actually [...]
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November 2008, Los Angeles, California A wine glass shatters and a friend jumps back in fright, pinning a large piece of glass between the arm and her chair, slicing a deep wound in her forearm. The exact circumstances are unimportant, but the result is that we are on the curb awaiting an ambulance. She is [...]
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If I ask you where and how scientists work, you probably conjure an image like this: Labs are the popular image of science and rightfully so; experimental tests are how science distinguishes its efforts at truth and knowledge from philosophy, literature, and religion. Yet fewer and fewer scientists actually spend the majority of their time [...]
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