The Million Steps
Thru-hike of the Colorado Trail in 2015, as published in Trail Groove magazine
Month: April 2016
What will be the economic impact of repurposing DNA for digital storage?
It’s no secret that we are generating far more information than we can possibly store. When you click an aging link and get that “404 file not found” message, you have likely tried to access information that has been vaporized to make room for something newer. And “aging” may mean just a few months old. Read More …
The educated guessing game of antibiotic prescription
Here’s a story I wrote for Undark about how doctors are usually just guessing when they prescribe antibiotics. It’s a major factor that contributes to the rise of antibiotic resistance, a holdover practice from the Golden Age of Antibiotics. Flying Blind Into a Storm of Resistance