3 Quarks Daily (link) is a science and humanities website, which excerpts interesting pieces from a multitude of internet sources, but also posts original content by guest columnists every Monday. I was selected as a guest columnist in 2014 and have written 35 essays for them. The full list, along with links, is below:
Some Reflections on Phenology, Species Relationships and Ecology 3 Quarks Daily, January 2022.
Early Years in Arizona, 3 Quarks Daily, December 2020.
‘A California Story’ by Namit Arora: A Endearing, Honest Portrait of Indian American Life, 3 Quarks Daily, September 2019.
One Foot in Engineering, The Other In Humanities: Reflections on My Career and Interests, 3 Quarks Daily, October 2018.
Means, Medians and Percentiles: Common Statistics Through an Optimization Lens, 3 Quarks Daily, July 2018.
Who Knew Healthcare Could Be So Complicated? 3 Quarks Daily, December 2017.
Things Related to Corn: Nixtamalization, Planting Techniques (The Milpa), and Journeys in North America, 3 Quarks Daily, July 2017.
Yelahanka: Sketches of a Neighborhood, 3 Quarks Daily, May 2017.
All Models are Wrong, Some are Useful, 3 Quarks Daily, February 2017.
Mark the Janitor and Other Anecdotes, 3 Quarks Daily, December 2016.
How I was Drawn to Birds, 3 Quarks Daily, October 2016.
Quantitative Measures of Linguistic Diversity and Communication, 3 Quarks Daily, August 2016.
Four Days in Jogja, 3 Quarks Daily, July 2016
Nature Notes from Massachusetts: How The Land has Changed, 3 Quarks Daily, May 2016.
Where Probability Meets Literature and Language, 3 Quarks Daily, March 2016.
A Note on Peppers, 3 Quarks Daily, January 2016.
Chasing Beavers, 3 Quarks Daily, March 2015.
Stray Memories, 3 Quarks Daily, December 2015.
What Does it Mean to ‘Stay Present’? Can We Control Our Thoughts? 3 Quarks Daily, October 2015.
Reflections on War and Peace, 3 Quarks Daily, September 2015.
How much should you plan for? 3 Quarks Daily, August 2015.
The Monarch Butterflies, 3 Quarks Daily, July 2015.
Unconditioned by the Past, 3 Quarks Daily, May 2015.
A Mobile Surgical Unit and a Rural Health Center in Ecuador, 3 Quarks Daily, February 2015.
Birds Seen This Winter, 3 Quarks Daily, January 2015.
The Undocumented Journey North Through Mexico, 3 Quarks Daily, December 2014.
The Sense of Self: A Conversation, 3 Quarks Daily, October 2014.
The Shortest Path, the Traveling Salesman, and an Unsolved Question, 3 Quarks Daily, September 2014.
On PBS Nature Documentaries and My Life As a Turkey, 3 Quarks Daily, August 2014.
Travels in Northeast Turkey: Part 1, 3 Quarks Daily, May 2014.
Travels in Northeast Turkey: Part 2, 3 Quarks Daily, July 2014.
Some Conversations with Healthcare Staff in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, 3 Quarks Daily, April 2014.
On Delays in Access to Care in American Hospitals, 3 Quarks Daily, March 2014.
American Indian History, Through (South Asian) Indian Eyes, 3 Quarks Daily, February 2014.
Some Thoughts on the Science of Queuing, 3 Quarks Daily, January 2014.