is it cold in here?
[Originally posted at our new home at Scientific American.] Last week, Linda Henneberg, a young science communication intern at CERN in Switzerland — best known …
XX and XY
desperately seeking sonya
Jen-Luc Piquant and I are heading out to Oregon State University today, as I am a featured speaker at OSU's first Sonia Kovaleskaya Mathematics Day, …
FROM THE ARCHIVES: tit for tat
I've been at the National Association of Science Writers meeting all weekend (on Twitter: #sciwrite10), and will get around to blogging about that and Cool …
a lab of their own
Well after Groundhog Day, the cocktail party's founder, long in absentia, emerges from under her nice shady rock, rubs her eyes and blinks in the …
by invitation only
I thought I'd start out the new year with a little old news and and old, old rant. Just let me just get on my …
let me explain
I found myself chuckling in amused recognition on Sunday while reading Rebecca Solnit’s Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, "Men Who Explain Things." Solnit, for …