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Kelly Benoit-Bird
Associate Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University
Kelly Benoit-Bird applies acoustics to the study of ecosystems in the open ocean. She has helped develop several new optical and acoustical instruments and has made fundamental acoustical measurements of species ranging from zooplankton to fish, squid, and marine mammals. Benoit-Bird has been named a MacArthur Fellow, has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and has published in Nature, Marine Biology and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Through her research into how predators target their prey, Benoit-Bird is creating a new understanding of key ecological processes in the ocean.
Flaminia Catteruccia
Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Flaminia Catteruccia is a molecular entomologist specializing in the reproductive biology of Anopheles mosquitoes, the only mosquitoes capable of transmitting human malaria. Searching for a more effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria, Catteruccia is exploring how disruptions to the mosquito mating process could cause them not to successfully reproduce. Her work has received funding from the Wellcome Trust and has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Biotechnology and Malaria Journal. Her focus on the reproductive biology of mosquitoes seeks keys to fighting a disease that still affects hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Sriram Kosuri
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School
Sriram Kosuri is developing next-generation DNA synthesis technologies for use in bioengineering. Prior to his work at the Wyss Institute, Kosuri was the first employee at Joule Unlimited, a biofuel startup company working to develop fuels from sunlight using engineered microbes; and co-founded OpenWetWare, a website designed to share information in the biological sciences. He has authored several patents and patent applications related to both biofuels and DNA synthesis technologies, and has published in journals such as Nature Biotechnology and Molecular Systems Biology. The potential applications of the engineered biological products Kosuri is working on span realms from medicine to environment to energy and materials.
Thaddeus Pace
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Thaddeus Pace explores endocrine and immune system changes in people who suffer from stress-related psychiatric illness or who have had adverse early life experiences. His investigations have highlighted the potential of compassion meditation and other complementary practices to help individuals exposed to trauma, including patients with PTSD and children in state foster care programs. Pace’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and has appeared in Neuroscience, The American Journal of Psychiatry and International Immunopharmacology. His research aims to contribute new approaches to the long-term health and well-being of children and adults in challenging circumstances.
David Rand
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Yale University
David Rand focuses on the evolution of human behavior, with a particular emphasis on cooperation, generosity and altruism. His approach combines empirical observations from behavioral experiments with predictions generated by evolutionary game theoretic math models and computer simulations. Rand has been named to Wired magazine’s Smart List 2012 of “50 people who will change the world” as well as the AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science, and his work has been featured on the front covers of both Nature and Science and reported widely in the media. Rand seeks answers to why people are willing to help others at a cost to themselves, and what can be done to help solve social dilemmas when they arise.
Giuseppe Raviola
Director of Mental Health at Partners In Health, Director of the Program in Mental Health and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and Medical Director of Patient Safety and Quality at Children's Hospital Boston
Giuseppe “Bepi” Raviola works to more fully integrate mental health services into global health care efforts. Through research, clinical practice and training in places ranging from Haiti to Rwanda, Raviola is building teams and bridging disciplines to address this critical and previously neglected issue. His ideas and findings have appeared in The Lancet, the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Raviola’s work on behalf of local mental health team leaders aims to build lasting, community-based systems of mental health care.
John Rinn
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Medical School and Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute
John Rinn takes an unconventional approach to the way biologists think about the human genome. Focusing on large intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs), his work suggests that so-called “junk genes” may actually play a key regulatory role in cell function. Rinn’s finding have been published in Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and he has been named to Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10.” By identifying thousands of new RNA genes in the human genome, he is working toward a better understanding of their importance for human health and disease.
Leila Takayama
Research Scientist, Willow Garage
Leila Takayama studies how people perceive, understand, feel about and interact with robots. What can robots do? Better yet, what should they do, and how? Takayama has been collaborating with character animators, sound designers, and product designers to work toward making both the appearance and behaviors of robots more human-readable, approachable, and appealing. Her findings have appeared in the International Journal of Design, Neural Networks and IEEE Pervasive Computing. Through her research, Takayama is leading the way toward robots that serve their purposes more effectively and intuitively.
Tiffani Williams
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Tiffani Williams explores new ways to use computation in helping to reconstruct the phylogenetic ways that all organisms are connected. A specialist in bioinformatics and high-performance computing, she is working with a multidisciplinary team to build the Open Tree of Life, showing the previously established links among species and providing tools for scientists to update and revise the tree as new data come in. She has been a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and has published in Science, Evolutionary Bioinformatics and the Journal of Computational Biology. By helping identify how species are related to each other, Williams is providing a framework for new understanding in realms such as ecological health, environmental change, and human disease.
Benjamin Zaitchik
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Zaitchik’s research is directed at understanding, managing, and coping with climatic and hydrologic variability. He looks for new approaches to controlling human influences on climate and water resources at local, regional and global scales, and explores improved forecast systems and methods of risk assessment. His work has received funding from NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and appeared in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Water Resources Research, among others. Zaitchik is interested in helping provide new insights in such crucial areas as transboundary water management, climate-informed disease early warning systems, and adaptation strategies in subsistence agricultural communities.
Wonderful science fiction story, An unscientific Story, in Cosmopolitan magazine from 1903.
full page illustration
Science Fair Winner
Make It Interesting ~ Challenge No 1 (Rock)
Source image with thanks to Alaskan Dude
Background pictures by Stilfehler- Wikimedia - Creative Commons
Girl by Chambersstock- deviantArt
Texture by Skeletalmess- callitwhatyouwant
Kista Science Tower stood finished in 2002 and is 117 m or 384 ft tall (156 m or 512 ft with its antenna). That makes it the third tallest skyscraper in Sweden, and the tallest office building in Scandinavia. For shots of the interior, go here.
I wish to impress upon you how incredibly difficult it was to get a clean shot of the entire tower. It's located right in the middle of everything else, and my lens does not go wider than 18mm. (Have I complained about that before... nah, can't be.) Move closer, and the tower is too big. Move away, and you get some ugly traffic sign in the composition.
An experiment Sam was doing for school to see how the density of the number of seeds planted affected the growth of the plant.
Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the end of False Creek, and features many permanent interactive exhibits and displays, as well as areas with varying topics throughout the years.
October 4, 2014 at College of San Mateo Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace.
Photo by CSM Library
Glasgow Science Centre is a popular visitor attraction located at Pacific Quay on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It is a purpose-built science centre composed of three principal buildings which are the Science Mall, an IMAX cinema and the Glasgow Tower.
The new BBC headquarters building is located immediately east of the Science Centre.
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it's boron if you're interested. Beaker looks very afraid of me.
TITLE: Dr Bloodmoney
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: paperback novel PUBLISHER: Ace F337
COVER PRICE: $.40
ISBN:
PAGES:222
COPYRIGHT: 1965 by ACE books
Dr. Bloodmoney Or, How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
"Listen McConchie," Fergesson said, "You know that kid with no arms and legs that comes around on that cart. The one with just those dinky flippers whose mother took that drug back in the early 60s? The one that always hangs around because he wants to be a TV repairmen - I hired him - his name is Hoppy"
Philip Dick's 1965 published science-fiction novel (written in 1963) "Dr. Bloodmoney" is one of a number written by various authors during the Cold War period that speculated what live would by like after an atomic bomb exchange. Dick's strange yet fascinating nightmarish future is well seasoned with confounding concepts and mystifying characters. Phil's Marin County California included talking dogs, rats that play musical instruments and do bookkeeping, cars pulled by horses and even some trucks propelled by burning wood to produce steam power. Entertainment and information is sporadic provided by an orbiting Water Dangerfield sole survivor of a failed Mars mission. Dangerfield reads the classics of literature - chapter by chapter and sometimes plays requested music like a celestial disk jockey.
Dr. Bruno Bluthgeld, a Berkley atomic scientist, through a "trivial miscalculation" started a chain reaction that left the world in ruin we are informed. Bluthgeld is on the run but as we find out the hellhounds of retribution are snapping as his heels mainly in the form of Hoppy the man born without arms and legs. Hoppy has developed some very peculiar talents and had acquired a lust for power that eventually becomes his undoing when he crosses the young girl with a brother living inside her.
There are several interwoven subplots and characters that propel this fascinating novel to a satisfying conclusion, satisfying for a Phil Dick novel that is!
This book is a peculiar and confounding mixture of science fiction and autobiography. I can state this as a fact since in later editions of this novel Dick included a very informative essay concerning this title. In fact he write himself as a character in the book: "I am, so to speak, Stuart McConchie and at one time I was a TV salesmen at a store on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley."
A note about the title: Lawrence Sutin in his excellent biography of Dick "Divine Invasion" states "Phil proposed two titles: In Earth's Diurnal Course and A Terran Odyssey. The garish title was Ace books editor Donald A. Wollheim's attempt to cash in on Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove".
PUB DATE:1965
EDITION: 1st edition, 1st publication
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan
ISFDB: Yes
NOTATION:
The cover states "First Book Publication".
• The artist is not credited; JG is just visible on the cover (bottom right).
• The interior art piece is also not credited.
INDEX: 0273 - Dr Bloodmoney - 026 - PKD - IFB
QUOTE “What about my dead cat?’ Kevin would ask. Several years ago, Kevin had been out walking his cat in the early morning. Kevin, the fool, had not put the cat on a leach, and the cat had dashed into the street right into the wheel of a passing car…. Kevin liked to say “On judgment day when I’m brought up before the great judge I’m going to say, “hold on a second” and then I’m going to whip out my dead cat from inside my coat. “How do you explain this’ I’m going to ask”. By then Kevin use to say, the cat would be as stiff as a frying pan; and he would hold out the cat by it’s handle, it’s tail, and wait for a satisfactory answer. from Valis by Philip K. Dick
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ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
Lt. Cmdr. Todd Wimmer, commanding officer of Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Honolulu, learns the best method to kick a soccer ball from Charlie Matsumoto, a 7th grader at Island Pacific Academy in Kapolei, Oahu, Jan. 12, 2017. The Coast Guard was invited to help judge the school’s annual science fair which gives students the opportunity to compete for district and state titles. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Levasseur.
A sheet of paper, twisted, standing vertically on the brink of balance, is covered, on its inner surface, by names of religions or deities (printed in dark green) and, on its outer surface, by names of sciences (in light orange).
Technique : paper. Size: 0,29 x 0,42 m.
Part of a slide transparency presentation - Flinton Continuation School.
Part of the CDHS Archives Album
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In this experiment, the color of the liquid in the flasks will change to yellow if you blow in the straw. This student tests whether an aquarium bubbler will also cause the color change. For more science experiment ideas, see www.biologycorner.com
I was struggling with this one and then remembered that my daughter has one of those kitchen science kits that someone bought her for a present once. Shes never got round to using it thankfully!
I love the NPR show, Science Friday. Love it. Kris and I listen to it each week on the drive home from work, and we learn something new each week.
I also get my best book recommendations from the show -
Expedition 36 Mission and Science Overview Briefing with Tara Ruttley, ISS Associate Program Scientist, at Johnson Space Center May 22, 2013.
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.