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. […]
Here’s a healthcare multimedia/interactive story that I helped put together. It all started when Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles found a bunch of healthcare data from the OECD and Dartmouth. We’ve been drooling over Gapminder lately, so we decided to have a go.
Peter and Jim analyzed the data and wrangled them […]
My friend Jamal put this together as part of a recent contest in Portland. The music is part of “The Little Apple”, which you can download for free here.
Jamal Qutub / Cut&Paste Motion 2009 from Nimpsy / Jamal Qutub on Vimeo.
Noted game designer, author, and professor at USC’s School for Cinematic Arts, Chris Swain, gave a talk on the future of video games at MIT on January 28th, 2009. It’s a fascinating look at the current and future roles of video games in society, well worth the two hours if you’re curious. If […]
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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bonus audio interview
video soundtrack (free download)
print (PDF)
BUILD DAY
It’s a gray Saturday morning and the MIT campus is dead. Empty courtyards testify that most students are either sleeping off last night’s fun, or still attached to a screen after an all-night computer programming session. Some are up, however, and I’m headed to meet them at Build […]
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. […]