Tag: Novel

For over a year, I have been gestating a story that has been knocking on my brain to come out into the world. It is a story that speaks of unity, hope, and helping us to recognize the strengths and similarities in one another, rather than focusing on our differences and the circumstances that drive ...

Visual novels combine text, images, sound, and choices to create an immersive experience. They are popular in Japan and have a loyal fanbase around the world. I always liked visual novels and wanted to make one of my own. Inspired by watching Welcome to the NHK. In this blog post, I'm sh...

Tommy Orange, There There: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2018), 294pp. What does it mean to be a Native American today, after four hundred years of depopulation, mass murder, forced assimilation, numerous betrayals, altered histories, and violent stereotypes? More particularly, what does it...

The novel begins with the introduction of Jonathan Margolis to Dr. Carmichael after he throws a fit at a pool on a class field trip and is taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he encounters Dr. Eldin Carmichael. Dr. Carmichael discovers through the drawings that Jonathan has brought wit...

Originating from the CERN openlab inside the CERN IT division, BioDynaMo is a cutting-edge instrument for "in silico" testing, or computer-based experimentation. It develops and executes intricate 3D computer simulations based on mathematical models to better understand the course of cance...

The Hippo pathway regulates the YAP and TAZ transcriptional coactivators, which are often upregulated in human cancers. YAP/TAZ partner with TEAD transcription factors to drive cancer phenotypes. Because mutations in the Hippo pathway genes NF2 and LATS2 lead to YAP/TAZ hyperactivation, mesothelioma...

There’s not anything inherently special about the Pacific Northwest. Or rather, there is, but not more so than there is something inherently special about any place on Earth that a human or other creature, big or small, has made their home. I write about this one because it happens to be the p...

“Do stars, like mothers, feel love for the life they give? Do they feel a million years of grief when one of their neighbors goes nova or fades into a brown dwarf at the end of its fusion life? We have seen that consciousness follows complexity. We recognize a sufficient number of features ...