North America

...feelings of failure are physical. I threw up my dinner that night, I could not stop crying, and my body would not stop trembling.

Even though I didn’t feel like I belonged, I was always more than happy to be there because it meant I didn’t have to be at home.

The fellow student couldn’t even tell me what city their Croatian relatives were from. I was disappointed, it’s a small country after all.

Failure in research is essential. If you fear failure it could distort the way you choose projects and ultimately impede science progress.

We so desperately want facts to convince and convert but they don't have the same power as a story to impact our perceptions and behaviors.

What the issue really came down to for me was whether the creation story was literal and whether macroevolution was legitimate.

Why go all that way, why spend all that time, why spend all that money? Why even bother in the first place.

I am caught between two generations and two homes. I am an immigrant in a world that does not want to remember.

...my brain has transformed me from a fourth-grader fumbling through my first time touching a cello, to a seasoned musician...

Wild Green Memes is blooming at a breakneck pace. And people are taking note.