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This Week In Reading: The Optimist’s Telescope
[Disclaimer: Bina Venkataraman is a close relative and, in my opinion, an excellent science journalist.] It is no coincidence that The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age came out...
View ArticleChronicling An Infectious Disease Quarantine
The door of my high school locker had a magazine ad pasted on it. Orange background, a minimalist plastic chair and the words SEE YOU IN 2020. It was 1992, the internet was coming alive, I was...
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Office Space; The House of Dance and Feathers
Day 4 of the quarantine. Thanks to modern videoconferencing technology (however buggy and lossy), we maintain distancing but not separation. What a luxury to continue to work and do science while not...
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The Truth Of The Moment
You are human. Your feelings are valid. Your emotional and rational takes on any given situation exist simultaneously, so by all means, go ahead. Allow yourself to have those feelings, sit with them...
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Dreams, Memories, Stories
The same dream comes to me every night. It always starts in the lobby of One Shell Square in New Orleans. Once the large grinning security guard lets us through the turnstiles, we wait for the...
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Making it Home
My grandfather the physician “A second chance doesn’t mean that you’re in the clear. In many ways, it is the more difficult thing. Because a second chance means that you have to try harder. You must...
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My Career Hasn’t Transitioned, It Has Evolved
Originally published on LinkedIn Since I announced my move to a new role as a program manager in Microsoft’s Azure for Energy division, I have received many notes of celebration and curiosity. The...
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We made 2020. How do we make the future from here?
Advice for the young at heartSoon we will be olderWhen we gonna make it work? * We are in the fourteenth week of a quarantine or some kind of COVID-time physical and social limitation,into three...
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Open, Equitable and Accountable: From Conflictive Stagnation to Collective...
Crossroads, by Adam Meek Two weeks ago, I held virtual office hours for those recently out of work and/or seeking career reinvention. It was an apt culmination to a year of public talks, online...
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Galaxy Gazing from a Burning Earth
Evidently it takes us successfully placing a space telescope a million miles from Earth to write here for the first time since January 2, 2021. I’ve been short-form writing elsewhere, but let’s face...
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