Oh, Adam Gopnik. Are you aware of how ironic this is? When I was a child, two piles of magazines, pillars of this misplaced faith in a leisurely reading future, rose in adjacent basements. In our house, Scientific American, dense… Continue Reading
“Because I want to help people.” When you’re going through medical school interviews, you can expect to answer many variations on the theme of “Why do you want to be a doctor?” (I know I’ve written about this before, but… Continue Reading
I like to tell myself that, if I put my mind to it, I can make sense of the world. Or maybe not The World, but most aspects of it when viewed discretely without too many confounding variables. Perhaps it… Continue Reading