Some people struggle with what they want to be when they grow up. For Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah, the decision to be a doctor was so easy that she calls it a “no-brainer.” “Medicine was a way of life for me. I’m a third generation of doctors and second generation of …

When she considers how far she’s come, Dr. Paula Johnson sees the path that brought her from being a public school kid in Brooklyn to being the first Black woman president of Wellesley College and a tireless advocate for equity in medicine. It’s a path that refined her life’s work …

Today I learned that the average American subscribes to four streaming video subscription services. That makes me an above-average American, with a grand total of seven streaming services. To complicate matters further, I am an American living in Australia, and the movies and shows I can access change drastically depending …

Dr. Alison Todd describes herself as an “inventor at heart,” but she’s not the sort of inventor who tinkers with gears in a workshop. Instead, she invents new tools in medical diagnostics, developing better ways to identify gene sequences and how they impact disease. Rather than screwdrivers and hammers, her …

Dr. Ann McKee remembers the first time she saw a case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. She’d been staring down at the brain of deceased boxer Paul Pender, and the damage she saw had caught her off guard: “I was looking at the boxer’s brain, and I couldn’t believe …

Covid-19 made remote work a reality for a lot of people, but for me, it was business as usual. I haven’t worked in a physical office in a long time. In fact, for several years, I’ve worked from anywhere but a physical office. Across three continents and a few employers …

It's fairly common to experience some pre-flight jitters, especially if it's been a while since your last plane trip. What if you forget an important document at home? What if you get lost at the airport and miss the flight? What if you fart while the plane is in the …