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As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, shattering our familiar realms of work, education and play, many of us in lockdown face a binary choice: We can hunker down at home, or—when we can’t stand it anymore—take a walk outside. After the crisis began, I witnessed a tenfold surge in the number of people […]

I’m coming to you from the front lines of the battle against the novel coronavirus, aka SARS-CoV-2. As an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, I spend dozens of hours a week in the emergency department. It’s my job to direct and oversee our residents, as well […]

On a recent episode of our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with Carina Curto, a mathematician at Penn State University who specializes on mathematics applied to biology and neuroscience. You can listen to the episode here or at kpknudson.com, where there is also a transcript. Curto told us about the […]

Around seven in the evening on a calm September day in 2016 an Atlas V rocket growled its way into space from Cape Canaveral. On board was NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission to study the carbonaceous asteroid known as “Bennu” and to bring back some 60 grams of material for study on Earth.  Some four years later, […]