What Zebrafish Teach Us About Sleep
Usually the lectures I attend at Caltech and JPL are about landing on asteroids, black holes and the composition of Jupiter’s Moons, but this month, they had a biologist who discussed sleep. Years ago many […]
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On Liberals, Geckos and Microloans
Well, it’s time for me to get back on the book and science lecture review wagon! I’ve been working more on short stories and my interactive multimedia book series, Light 2.0, and have neglected […]
Why Women in Tech and Science Know Well About Pulling off the Impossible!
Dr. Marc Rayman, Chief Engineer and Mission Director of NASA’s Dawn Mission told an audience at JPL last Thursday night: “NASA’s motto is ‘If it isn’t impossible, it isn’t worth doing.’ ” I think this […]
The Importance of Mentoring – Sundays at Richard’s!
Several years ago I arranged for two of my female web and interactive students to video interview a woman scientist at Caltech. I asked the administrators there if they could line up a couple of […]
Brilliant Scientist, Technologist, Businessperson != Brilliant Anything Else, Part 1
Just because someone is a brilliant scientist, it does not necessarily follow that he/she is a brilliant anything-else.
The “Folders” – Episode Two of My Afternoon at The Institute for Figuring with Margaret Wertheim and Other New Acquaintances
On first meeting, Margaret Wertheim impresses me as one who could keep a noncommittal face when confronted with surprising news – a demeanor useful to a poker player. Unlike can’t-keep-any-emotion-off-her-face me, who would make a […]
“Do You Fold?” – Episode One of My Afternoon at The Institute for Figuring in L.A. with Physicist Margaret Wertheim and Other New Acquaintances
And I was suddenly imagining all the deeply intricate origami folding I had once heard some scientist talk about – who remembers when – but he was referring to the fact that they had discovered if you wanted to make something so small that you could pack it up to fly into deep space in a very small spaceship, and then unfold itself when its time came, like when it landed on Mars or an asteroid or something.
Writing Out Loud About The Search for Life in Space Exploration
Or, A Little Mars & Origins of Life History Before Tackling Today’s Space Exploration Debates, Part II One of the exciting things about blogs is the fact that we can update them with new information, […]
Why the future of space exploration requires that we make Earth protection our first priority.
The news media is rife with stories about missions to Mars and to asteroids lately. A great deal of the interest has been spawned by the fact that we have a mission on Mars currently, […]
Innovation vs Status Quo in Science, the Arts and Business
Jan. 20, 2013 Beckman Auditorium at Caltech, Pasadena – The Visioneers, with author Dr. W. Patrick McCray, streamed online as shown here First is the good news that the Skeptics Society at Caltech is now […]