So the conference was great. There isn’t much suspense to tell it now, but my flight was an hour late getting out on Friday from Baltimore, and since that’s exactly how much time I had to make my (airline-scheduled) connection in Memphis, I didn’t know if I was going to make it to Austin. The [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Highlights from NASW in Austin
Posted in Uncategorized on 24 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Odds that I Will Freelance for “Book of Odds” are 1 in 1.
Posted in new article, tagged feature, math on 24 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Over the summer, several of us were approached by a start-up Web company. They had spent years collecting statistics on the probabilities that various things will happen to a person during their lifetime — stuff like getting struck by lightning, being diagnosed with breast cancer, or getting eaten by a bear (okay, I made that [...]
New article in Technology Review
Posted in new article, tagged feature, history, science fiction on 21 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
The conference was spectacular. More on that later. For now, I am happy to report that I have a small article in the November/December issue of Technology Review: An Astounding Collection: MIT’s Science Fiction Treasure Trove. There is a great selection of photographs accompanying it, from the MIT Archives. Kids in cat-eye glasses and with [...]
Away to Austin (NASW)
Posted in Uncategorized on 15 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow I am off to Austin for four days for the annual Science Writers conference, co-hosted by the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW). There will be a trip to the Bat Cave and everything. (Okay, the Bat Bridge. But still.) This will be my [...]
New video/podcast featurelet up
Posted in new article, tagged biology, podcast, video on 15 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Although I have been neck-deep in new responsibilities as a science writer at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for three weeks now, a few remaining articles and multimedia features are still percolating through the review and posting system at NIGMS. This video/podcast featurelet went up today. It was orginally going to be a [...]
Graduation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged event, personal on 7 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s official — we’ve been awarded our degrees and released back into the wild. The night before, we organized our own class happy hour. With seven people, it wasn’t too tough to pull off. The next morning we had the traditional “old class, meet new class” brunch, since as a twelve-month program there’s no [...]
A little Nobel excitement
Posted in new article, tagged biology, chemistry, video on 7 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have heard, the Nobel Prizes are being announced each morning this week. Because it only supports basic research, and because basic research-driven discoveries sometimes balloon into numerous unforeseen areas that may include widespread medical applications, the institute I work for (part-time now) often has grantees among the Nobel laureates. Actually, we’ve had [...]
