Find Me If You Can: A Commentary on Lingerie and Technology

November 18th, 2008
By Josh Pothen
We've heard about GPS capabilities being placed in devices like cell phones. But now they're being placed in perhaps the unlikeliest of places: lingerie! But before you get too startled or outraged like a feminist group in Berlin, you might be interested to find that the device provides women in certain violent countries protection from potential attackers or rapist Read More

Decoding Culture: The Personal Genome Project And What It Says About Us

November 11th, 2008
By Josh Pothen
If you could make your DNA available to the world, would you? Now you can, as a result of a new scientific initative, the Personal Genome Project. The idea is simple: You send in your DNA, which is then decoded into your genome and placed on the web site. But that's not all. Your phenotype, or the resulting products from your gene sequence, is also made available. Read More

"Light to India": In Memoriam of a Hero

November 3rd, 2008
By Josh Pothen
Josh Pothen recalls the life of a woman named Lillian Doerksen, often called the "Protestant Mother Teresa" for her work in India raising orphaned girls and opening schools in Maharashtra for the deaf. She was also Pothen's grandmother, and in this blog he shares some of his own insights into her life. Read More