Brad Barrish

“As an entomologist, I’ve been doing this for over 25 years now, and it is a rare day when the humans actually get to win one against the insects,” said Sven Spichiger, the pest program manager at the Washington State Department of Agriculture.

Research suggests that resistance bands are often as effective as weights at building strength, endurance and muscle mass. And because bands can be stretched and pulled in different directions, they allow you to target muscles that free weights often can’t

It’s mediocre tools that we have to watch out for. They quietly and persistently corrupt our intent and force us to work harder on the parts that don’t matter as much.

ASICS casting Brian Cox (or Logan Roy) to deliver a PSA about the dangers of sitting at your desk was surprising and smart. https://t.co/M7NgCspfvu

When you describe yourself as a “writer” but your writing has become hard to find, it creates a crisis not just of profession, but identity. Who am I, if not my content?

The internet has become a series of lacunas, spaces where content used to be.

The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practically anyone with a garage these days can do profound studies, relative to just 15 to 20 years ago.