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Joy, fear, pride, panic, love, relief—and a whole thesaurus of other emotions—could have described how I felt when Dr. K delivered the news. But if I’m honest, my dominant reaction was a shrug and a casual, “Eh, okay.” I mean, it wasn’t like Apple had announced a new iPad, right? No pre-order excitement or tech specs to obsess over for months. What we were dealing with here was just a tiny organism—twenty cells, tops—dividing itself like bacteria and freeloading in its temporary shelter. Not exactly front-page news, if you ask me. In my mind, the process was simple: people did […]