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New Scientist, Portfolio, Video, Writing
OCTOBER ROUND-UP
Here’s what I wrote for New Scientist in October:
Open-source Disaster Recovery Software (500 words)
Minimax Athletes(500 words)
Submarine Neutrinos(500 words)
Moonbots(500 words + 30 sec video + 3 photos)Living Wallpaper(500 words)
Robotic Driving Companion(500 words)CCD Space Images Gallery(Curated 13 Images)
Total for New Scientist: 3000 words, 1 video, 1 gallery
I also had some pieces appear in other venues:
The Nieman Storyboard […] -
New Scientist, News, Portfolio, Science, Video, Writing
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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New Scientist, Portfolio, Writing
JUNE ROUNDUP
Here’s what I wrote for New Scientist in June:
First article (web, assigned, 500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17271-japanese-probe-set-to-crash-into-moon.html
First article of my own initiative (web, 500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17278-junk-food-gives-crow-chicks-a-weight-problem.html
First interactive piece(1200 words and some video/HTML editing):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17341-explore-how-climate-change-might-affect-the-us.html
First bylined print article (400 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227133.900-health-clues-found-in-big-tobaccos-files.html
First story turned around in one day (500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html
First physics article (500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17381-magnetic-superatoms-promise-tuneable-materials.html
Magazine briefs, not bylined:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227125.400-sweet-spray-opens-termites-up-for-attack.html
300 words
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227124.200-cause-of-hudson-plane-crash-confirmed.html
150 words
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227145.600-chicken-feathers-could-make-cheap-hydrogen-store.html
250 words (>60 comments!)
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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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Portfolio, Writing
NBER STORY
I have a story in the January edition of the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) digest on the true effects of “Work First” welfare reform.
“…welfare reforms have reduced both the probability that women aged 21-49 will attend high school and that those aged 24-49 will attend college, by 20-25 percent. These findings suggest that […] -
Audio, Experiments, Free Download, MIT, Music, Pictures, Portfolio, Uncategorized, Video, Writing
BUILD DAY
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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 […] -
News, Portfolio, Writing
INDIRECT EFFECTS
Gallflies used to combat invasive knapweed in Montana–which does an estimated $14 million of damage statewide–have recently been shown to hurt native plant growth through indirect food chain “ripple effects.”
The flies, originally introduced in the 1970s, provide an attractive source of extra calories for native deermice, which leads to a deermouse population increase. Since the […] -
News, Portfolio, Writing
AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
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As old methods fail to quell ongoing Wall Street turmoil, decision makers may soon be hunting for “America’s Next Top Model”—computer model, that is.
Some contestants will likely come from a new breed of social science simulations called “agent-based models” (ABMs). The idea is to use the huge number of calculations available to modern […] -
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. […] -
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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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I love that they had Freeney hit a real person...in the name of science (Sports Science) http://es.pn/cWjVMh #MERCH
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