by Heather L. Buckley The sunrise through the haze on the outskirts of Delhi, India, looks alien to someone from the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, who is habituated to cold, clear morning skies. The blood red orb in the sky reminds me of a summer long past when my home town lay engulfed in smoke…
by JJ Bhongsatiern When the father of a baby girl told me of the recent death of his daughter, he spoke of his great pain and confusion. His recently born (newborn) daughter had been prescribed a codeine-containing cough medicine of the same type that previously had been helpful to the father when he had a cough.…
by John Zhang For many scientists who code, whether it be for data crunching or prototyping, reliability, efficiency and readability are often not always a priority. After all, the goal is to produce results for publication. It’s tempting to cut corners on code quality when a paper deadline loom but increasingly, this is changing. There…
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