I consider myself one of the lucky ones. When I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in 2009, I had a 40% to 50% chance of surviving five years. Now, 11 years later, not only am I alive, but as far as we know, I’m also cancer-free. So, now I’m lucky in more ways than […]
In a post published earlier this month, I mentioned Bill Gardner, Ph.D., as an example of a patient for whom diagnosis had been delayed by effects from the coronavirus pandemic on medical care. I also mentioned that Dr. Gardner, a contributing writer for the Incidental Economist blog, intended to report on his cancer experience in […]
With charming, self-deprecating humor, Simone Giertz designs robots to dys-automate common tasks like toothbrushing and eating soup and demonstrates the design process and results on short videos. Giertz is great company in a world where things often go wrong, often when we’ve worked especially hard to make them go right. In her version, no one […]