Maya is a four-year old delight. She’s wiggly and giggly and has a partner in crime, her dog Parker. She loves animals, other kids, being naughty, and life as a whole. She has also undergone
A Mayan discovery
Posted July 17, 2012 by
When I’m in the crowd
I ain’t got no alibi
Posted June 4, 2012 by
In April I attended the Genomes Environments Traits conference, along with a couple hundred other people, many of whom were and are participants in the Personal Genome Project. This was the first year that GET
The order is rapidly fading
Posted May 25, 2012 by
25 May 2012 Amy Gutmann, PhD Chair, The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues 1425 New York Avenue NW Suite C–100 Washington, DC 20005 Re: Comments on the ethical issues raised by the
Same time next year?
Posted September 2, 2011 by
My “colleague” (can I call him that?) Seth Mnookin offers a thoughtful paean to the one-year anniversary of this here blogging network. It truly is a pleasure to know that so many smart and talented
Waiting on a friend
Posted October 20, 2010 by
Blogging has always seemed to me to be a perverse, audacious and narcissistic act. You write something that is explicitly for broadcast, that has not been edited by anyone but you, that no one has
In the crowd
Posted October 9, 2010 by
Slate asks, Should you crowdsource your medical problems? They say not so much: …But few medical professionals are involved in patient sites; mostly patients just talk amongst themselves. That’s a problem since crowdsourcing works best