The Perils of Mediocrity as a Goal

About 30 years ago, I cut an article out of a newspaper. Yes, there used to be these things called newspapers—physical sheets of paper with stories and articles printed on them. The ink, often slightly rubbery, would smudge your fingers,…

You ain’t you

From a scientific perspective, the human body is remarkably empty. Atoms, the building blocks of all matter, are almost entirely vacant, with a tiny nucleus surrounded by a vast cloud of electrons. This emptiness extends into our cells, where organelles…