You know when you have those “lightbulb” moments? I had one yesterday. As I listened to the president’s press conference, I was taken back to the worst week of my college years—the week I came down with H1N1 or “Swine Flu.” Right before I became ill with what I can only describe as walking dead…
Scientists must be willing to question everything. To be a scientist does not make you omniscient; it makes you an expert in the field, but even the experts get it wrong. Like the experts that Galileo bucked when he suggested the solar system revolved around the sun and not around the earth; like the ones…
I haven’t said a lot about COVID-19. Not “politically,” anyway. It’s been a project in and of itself to be working full-time while wrangling two small children who are being just as patient as they can be. I’ve been listening to a lot of people. Medical professionals, commentators, our local and national leadership… and I’ve…
I’ve just finished one of the most hellish weeks of my life. In the course of just 7 days, I’ve gone from business as usual, to finding out my grandma has an inoperable, extremely aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme that will, barring a miracle in the most literal sense of the word, kill her.…
A Future Free 