My first encounter with coding was when I was 12 or 13 and my mother tried to teach me how to make a website with HTML. It sounded confusing and boring and I was more interested in reading books, so I gave up. My second encounter was as a freshman…

plants, death, and inequity Agave parryi at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle. Photo by the author A growing family of succulents sits in my office, rudely overtaking what was supposed to be a shared coffee table. They have the most beautiful names. The Senecio rowleyanas, a ‘string of pearls’…

How measurement affects health, for better and for worse Photo by saraluv on flickr This is not an article about the Heisenburg uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle makes a statement about the fundamental properties of wavelike systems — namely, that you cannot know both the position and momentum of a…