I overhead an exasperated parent the other day: “The kid just won’t stop asking ‘why’ all the time. Everything I say, she challenges. She’s driving …
i think that i shall never see / a carbon offset as lovely as a tree Continue Reading >>
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might suggest that PR/branding/marketing people should go before lawyers. The spin doctor’s job is to make their company look good – even when it shouldn’t. The existence of spin doctors is reason number one why we must fix our badly broken education system. If science teaches one thing, it is skepticism: People shouldn’t be so anxious to be told what to think.
Living in sunny Southern California, where it's 75, sunny and mild much of the time, kind of makes you forget that other regions experience this …
I don't know about other scientists, but I've been thinking twice before hitting 'send' on my emails lately. The last thing I want is to …
I'm on the road, first in Waterloo, Canada for the Perimeter Institute's Quantum 2 Cosmos Festival — you can read about a couple of the …
I've been back from China for about a month and I'm still processing the experience, but I thought I'd tell you all a little …
The rocket scientist just bought a new car. He claims he was thinking about trading in his old Pontiac Aztek well before I bought my …
miles (per gallon) to go before understanding fuel economy Continue Reading >>
NOTE: I would love to be blogging about zombies or the quantum Hamlet effect or The Time Traveler’s Wife, or any number of cool science-y …
There's a song by Bruce Cockburn called "The Trouble With Normal" that has stuck with me for years since I first heard it in graduate …
the ones that got away: science through cross-disciplinary eyes Continue Reading >>
I am in Portland for the day, having dragged myself out of bed at an ungodly hour (4 AM) to catch my flight. (On the …
