[Book Review] Hope in the lab

Hope Jahren is a successful scientist, but it wasn’t always that way. In her autobiographical book Lab Girl, Jahren takes us through the journey of the beginnings of her career up until her current situation. Hope Jahren is a biologist whose research focuses on plants. The author’s partnership with Bill, her lab manager, seems to beRead More

Beyond GDP: change the game’s incentives by making it more like an open source community (Olympics for the Earth)

Gross domestic product (GDP) has been a crucial metric for individual countries to know how they are doing from year to year. The International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) recently invited essays on this topic. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish writing by the deadline, but here are my ideas. If we are all to continue reapingRead More