Tag: scientific inquiry

  • Objectivity is a beautiful lie

    Think about the last time you heard a cover and liked it better than the original. Something in the reinterpretation unlocked the song. Maybe it had a slower tempo, riffs in new places, or grief where the original had swagger, and suddenly you can’t unhear it. Although written in black and white, the score was…

  • Do High Schoolers Belong in the Research Lab? Part 1

    The centrifuge whirrs in the background as I click open the next raw data csv file, preparing to analyze another batch of flow cytometry data that a dismissed bioinformatician left behind. In the shared Box drive, there were scattered files, incomplete annotations, and months of hard work requiring resurrection. At sixteen, I found myself wondering,…