Better writers than I have lamented the decline of respect for intellectualism and culture. It is a backlash, I’m sure, to the decades or centuries that intellectuals have mocked the ignorant, uneducated, or ‘simple folk.’ In many ways, troubling or not, the recent…
In my sometimes desperate search to figure out my health, I did genetic testing. I signed up for 23 and Me, was sent a kit, did some spitting, and about six weeks later, became the proud owner of answers about my genetic self. Everything is presented in percentages,…