I grew up fat.  “Plump” might be a better term for a youngster who was athletic but also ate vast quantities of junk food.  Somehow I managed to compete in gymnastics with a frame that, inflated to adult size, had around 70 extra pounds that had to be...

  I was recently standing in a department store, getting a new waistcoat to further cement the "professor gym-rat" look I have carefully constructed.  Next month I'm gonna try suspenders and a bow-tie. Anyway, during the checkout process, some statement flashed...

In my time working as a government scientist, I was able to work with a lot of cross-disciplinary teams, often putting math-and-code-heavy folks like myself together with domain-specific specialists like chemists or biologists who worked in wet labs more and made...