By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

Mismanagement and political campaigning have sucked the joy out of an event meant to bring people together

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake