When I was in my 20’s, just moved and starting to cut my teeth climbing rocks in Estes Park Colorado, Cedar Wright was someone I looked up to from afar. He was already a legend – the kind of bold, creative climber you aspired to be. I never imagined our paths would cross the way they did...

V. Reggie Edgerton, PhD, has died. At the time of this writing no details have been released. According to Parag Gad, Reggie’s former post-doc at UCLA and now business partner who broke the news March 26 on LinkedIn, the death came as a huge shock...

I grew up in humid and mosquito-laden Minnesota. During the summers of my youth, I remember my neighbor turning on this blue glowing bug zapper in his backyard. As I lay in bed at night the sound of its constant electric hum was interrupted with an occasional or filling the space as I fell asleep. Many of you surely remember those bug zappers, even if they aren’t quite as popular anymore. I was barely conscious of them at the time. Unfortunately, after my injury they became an apt, visceral metaphor for the kind of pain I experience on a...