Author Archives: Lex Gill

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR

Pure gold from Michael Mark Cohen on “The Douchebag: The White Racial Slur We’re All Been Waiting For.” Do we really need a white racial slur? Is the vision of equality that we should aspire towards a world without the N-word or Douchebag? Maybe. Maybe it is. But as everyone who is not colorblind canContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR”

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX

I don’t have the luxury of writing notes by hand anymore — the time it would take to digitize the volumes of notebooks I’d produce would just be overwhelming. So, I’ve switched to typing in lectures, sacrificing quality for the Command-F function. There’s still something so beautiful about reading someone else’s handwriting though. May I askContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX”

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR

From Letting Go by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker.   In 1985, the paleontologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould published an extraordinary essay entitled “The Median Isn’t the Message,” after he had been given a diagnosis, three years earlier, of abdominal mesothelioma, a rare and lethal cancer usually associated with asbestos exposure. He went toContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR”