31.03.2023

The Joke (Surprise, Surprise) Was on Them

Dr. Amit Raj got so tired of his two cousins constantly pestering him about going out with their friend Dr. Ami Deepak Modi that during the summer of 2010 he decided to play a joke on them. “Actually, we are dating,” Dr. Raj, now 34, told them the next time they brought it up, just…

A Secret Crush Goes Public in a Work Meeting

In March 2020, Emily Yang Liu spent hours each day in virtual meetings with her team at Google, which was working on building Covid-19 exposure notifications technology. To keep herself engaged, she pinned her work crush, Jacob Michael Klinker, to her screen. They hadn’t actually met in person — they started working on the contact…