Treasure in human waste
Author Bryn Nelson wrote an entire book about the ways that human waste can help humanity. Only some puns included.
Centrifuge – smashing science into theater
What happens when an actor has to keep putting on a skull-cap, in order to look bald, over and over?
Man makes his microbes into research study
Richard Sprague keeps samples of his own feces, in the family freezer, so he can send them to a Stanford University laboratory.
Tiny invisible bosses
Sometimes the scale of things makes all the difference. My microbes are invisible to my eyes, but increasingly important…
Small words = big ideas
Explaining science is a tricky business. You have to . . . assume that your audience may never have heard those words.
Shallow dive in Seattle big data projects
Seattle has a rich resource of both data-driven research projects and scientists who enjoy designing tools that mine data.
Sharing my microbial fingerprints
Any day now, I’m going to get lab results I’ve been waiting months to know. They will tell me something about my deep insides.
$1.7 million to open science’s Friend
Two honors this summer have burnished the reputation of Seattle scientist Stephen Friend for his pursuit of what is called open science.
Digging – the best way to learn science
I remember meeting Maureen Munn, PhD, for the first time, almost 20 years ago.
