Ya! I saw her perform live a few years ago—she was great!

Glad to hear it because my run-in with him in the 1980s, and stories from other women I know has made it hard for me to take anything he says on the subject seriously. And I mean that, I am actually glad to hear that he's admitted to and apologized for the crap he pulled when he was with Black Flag.

Engineer or architect?

NYC tap water comes from protected springs and reservoirs upstate, so I Brita-filter it for the taste. Since I only change my filter about once every two years, it's probably more placebo than anything else.

Yes, my favorite sight is seeing young doctors riding the subway in their SCRUBS. Really? Seriously? Change the fuck out of those germ rags before entering a crowded public space please. We are all terribly impressed that you have an M.D., but we'd prefer your not recruiting patients wherever you go.

Oh god, this is horrifying!! Surely if this is coming via email, someone can trace it.

Excellent! You are absolutely right. Thanks for providing nuance to that. I've mostly used this argument when in discussion with people opposed to "Darwinism" (do we call gravity "Newtonism?") point to eugenicists' use of forced selection and their misunderstanding of "fitness" as a reason to dismiss evolution.

I usually explain it to people this way:

This is Franklin you're talking about—he'd be on the internet looking for porn.

I love this! I am going to make a list of things I'm better at than famous people for things they're not famous for whenever I'm feeling a little down on myself. :-)

Unfortunately, anybody can call himself a nutritionist. Dietitian is a protected title though. Seems like it would be opposite, but no.

Not sure if these are the folks I spoke to at the NYC Maker Faire a couple of years ago, but someone from upstate (NY) told me they had, in fact, replaced a cow's knee based on an MRI and the same/similar scaffold printing-cell injecting method. Their biggest concern was how long it takes to actually grow the piece,…

I'm so clutzy, I could imagine reaching for my metrocard and accidentally turning my workaday suit into a ballgown. Very cool, but I'd make a mess of it.

My dog will step on the edge of my scale so it flips up and smacks back down on the floor. When he was younger, he would just sit on my head. My dog weighs 50 pounds. Fluffy alarm clock indeed.

I'm reading "Hedy's Folly" right now—about her invention of frequency hopping with the avant-garde musician George Antheil.

Sensible shoes. That's really all we ever wanted for her! Make this happen please.

That does bring up a really interesting question re: what is sight? Sight, in humans, involves, to varying degrees, color, contrast, directional movement and change (and also a lot more I'm sure, just going off the top of my head). V.S. Ramachandran has written some very lay-accessible work about, among other…

Isn't that called "field dressing?"

In your TED talk, you discuss the various types of prosthesis you've used, including one that makes you a few inches taller. How long does it take to incorporate different size/type prosthesis into your proprioception? In other words, once you've gotten used to a set, do you adjust immediately, or is there a warm-up…

Yes! There is something really affirming about being complimented by a gay man. I guess it seems like there is no ulterior motive, like trying to get in your pants and no weird underlying sense, real or imagined, that it's a competitive thing when coming from a straight woman. One gay man on the subway pointed to a…