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AUGUST ROUND-UP
Here’s what I did for New Scientist in the month of August:
Drilling in a Deep-sea Quake Zone:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17552-research-ship-drills-deep-into-ocean-quake-zone.html
(400 words)
Robot Operating System:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327206.300-robots-to-get-their-own-operating-system.html
(900 words +2 min video, collaboration)This one was well-received online, with link-love from BoingBoing, Crunchgear, Popular Science, and Engadget. The video was a collaboration between me and my friend Jesse Eisenhardt who shot and edited. […]
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MIT, Science, Video, Writing
MIT SCIENCE JOURNALISM PANEL
Last week I checked out the MIT Science Journalism Panel organized by the MIT Careers Office. Jonathan Fildes, Science and Technology reporter for BBC News, Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health/Science Editor for the Boston Globe, and Trisha Gura a freelance science and medical journalist and author of Lying in Weight spoke about a range of issues […]
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Audio, Experiments, Music, Portfolio, Science
WATER CYCLE MUSIC
Last summer I composed and produced some music to help illustrate different stages of the water cycle and how water interacts with the human environment. The music, created for the Boise Watershed Museum, accompanied an animated version of the above microcosm. I composed fourteen pieces, each about a minute in length, presented below. […]
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Audio, Drafts, Remixes, Science, Video, Writing
NASW ROUND UP
This post rounds out what I have from the 2008 NASW conference in Palo Alto.
These are presented in no particular order.
First up, here’s a talk by Prof. Cliff Nass of Stanford about robots that can disobey humans and howwe can build a world of more harmonious human-machine interaction. He’s a very lively speaker. […] -
News, Pictures, Portfolio, Science, Video, Writing
DANCE OF THE MUSSELS
(Video courtesy of Johan van de Koppel.)
It’s a lousy dancer who steps on his partner’s foot, but groups of mussels use a similar foot game to form intricate patterns in a newly discovered underwater dance that benefits all involved.Scientists in the Netherlands have for the first time shown how individual mussels, acting seemingly independently, naturally […]
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Science, Video, Writing
NASW INTERVIEWS
NASW ADVICE from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
Here are some writing tips from Emily Sohn, a freelance journalist who frequently writes for Science News for Kids, and Andy Fell of the egghead blog and UC Davis News Service. Emily and Andy were both speakers at the 2008 NASW Conference in Palo Alto and were gracious enough […] -
Audio, Portfolio, Science, Video
POLITICS AND SCIENCE
I just got back from the National Association of Science Writers conference in Palo Alto. We saw many interesting talks on a variety of subjects. I’ll be posting the audio and video of a few of them over the next couple of days. To kick things off, here is one of Obama’s science advisors, Sharon […]
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