Presenting at virtual meetings has become the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic for science researchers, although it can be disconcerting to experience. Digital platforms may inadvertently obscure important physical cues...
The German language has the uncanny ability to form elaborate new words by simply compounding several words into one. Often the new word personifies a formerly inexpressible feeling or event....
When I was still an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia, I attended a Department of Microbiology & Immunology seminar on the mechanisms of cell death. The speaker insisted that...
At the time that Cat’s Cradle was published in 1963, the novel’s author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote, “any scientist who couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a...
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