My first wall hit me in second-year university. It seemed as though every course was a “weeder” course. Organic chemistry, biochemistry, calculus—all these classes were utter beasts.
Tales of your teacher’s failures
Hope in the fight against antibiotic resistance
In the early 2000s, I worked with a company trying to develop a novel way to treat antibiotic-resistant infections using viruses that attacked the harmful bacteria. I learned that scientists had been struggling to make such a treatment viable since the 1920s. It looks like we've begun figuring out how to crack that nut! This is good news in our fight against antibiotic resistance.
What the Marvel cinematic universe can teach us about real-world pseudo-science
That is, someone who has never seen a single movie in the MCU will experience Avengers: Endgame differently than a Marvel freak/nerd/expert (like me) who has seen all of them.
Medicine, Meet Science Fiction
I remember pundits of gene therapy touting its potential back when I was in grad school in the 1990s. Twenty-years of set-backs and hard work later, it seems that potential is now being realized.
Rebuilding all the burnt churches
As billionaires pledge to rebuild Notre Dame, donations from good folks spike to rebuild other churches destroyed by hate crimes.