I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.

My family knows they are loved. As a mother, it is my job to let them know that they are, and it's a job I take quite seriously.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.

Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.