Not Like Me
When I became a father, 19 years ago, I remember helping my wife into the car at
the hospital. Next came my son in his carseat. It was heavy– heavier than the
seven
Life
Defending My Library
I recently moved and repeated a routine that has accompanied every move I have
made since I got married—defending my personal library. Every time we move, and
are confronted with the effort
Matchets and Diamonds
Returned from the heart-shaped continent,
clocking time, Africans with PhDs taxi forth.*
Those who have crossed and live, look
back, let go traditions for the modern grab.
Their ‘Africa-Independent’ is overrun;
its cities
Pen on Paper: A Defense of Writing
As if Americans don’t offer other countries enough reasons to think that we’re a
land of complete morons who got lucky in achieving superpower status, the issue
of whether or not
RoboRoach Academy
I may have just met the kid who grows up and cures Alzheimer’s– the person who
will one day claim that he or she started their journey in biomedicine thanks to
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