Early in my career, yes decades ago, I worked on the development of oximetry catheters. Designing an experiment and documenting the protocol on a very…

The rain in Copenhagen came down hard one afternoon but we still walked a couple miles to the iconic Little Mermaid statue. Phones out. A woman rode p…

I spent the month of June in Malta, Greece, and Switzerland. Three countries, three very different economies, one thing in common: almost nobody talke…

My grammar can be atrocious, and I know exactly why. I grew up in a Spanish-speaking country and still speak it close to natively, which left a perman…

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture a couple weeks ago. Within a few hours came the usual flood: drone footage of a partially collapsed…

I haven't set an alarm in decades. My body always wakes me a little after 4:30am, I get ready, read for a bit, and I'm at the gym when the doo…

A vegetarian grain-bowl reconstruction of United Airlines' "Spiced Quinoa" — itself a deconstruction of the Mexican classic chiles en no…

In 1969 Volker Strassen found a way to multiply two 4×4 matrices using 49 scalar multiplications instead of the obvious 64. The trick went into textbo…