Jonathan Lim

Safety can be dangerous. In complex systems, too much concern for safety for the parts can create a dangerous fragility in the whole. Thus, trying to save every single tree from potential fires makes the forest as a whole denser and …

…rogress through grade school from rockets and explosive chemistry to a passion for nuclear physics. A year earlier, distraught over his grandmother’s cancer diagnosis, Taylor came up with an idea to use nuclear fusion to produce cancer-spotting medical isotopes (they light up cells in tumors). He set out to build a nuclear fusion reactor — something that, at the time, only 10 individuals in the world had done. Tiffany and her husband, Kenneth, often joked that they had no idea where their son had come from. K…

…rogress through grade school from rockets and explosive chemistry to a passion for nuclear physics. A year earlier, distraught over his grandmother’s cancer diagnosis, Taylor came up with an idea to use nuclear fusion to produce cancer-spotting medical isotopes (they light up cells in tumors). He set out to build a nuclear fusion reactor — something that, at the time, only 10 individuals in…