Fri 24 Oct 2008
The MiniMediaGuy, the quintessential female geek, and the senior editor of Wired magazine. If you’re an aspiring science writer, that’s a pretty good trio of people from whom to take advice. Their session, "Geeks, Freaks, and Deadlines: Writing About Technology and the Humans Who Love It," featured personal and industry insights into science and technology [...]Fri 24 Oct 2008
I’ve worked at a big laboratory before. I’ve been at dinners with science writers (and out for cocktails with them), I’ve mingled at parties with them (and played drinking games with them), and I’ve talked about career possibilities with them (and about how things are going with the family). I know many on a professional [...]Fri 24 Oct 2008
Annalee Newitz is such a geek… and it’s totally not a problem. In fact, it’s pretty awesome. The 39 year-old writer grew up in Irvine, California, went to school at Berkeley, and currently lives in San Francisco—leaving in her wake a string of lifestyles she rejected for the geeky one into which she fits perfectly. [...]Fri 12 Dec 2008
I am watching a toddler from behind a two-way mirror. Vivian— 36-months old, female, physically and mentally healthy— sits on a couch in a playroom with bins full of games and tabletops speckled with candy surrounding her. She cranes her neck, looking at her options, but touches nothing. She has been told not to by [...]Sun 14 Dec 2008
Children who are good at estimating the number of objects in a group also do well in math, according to scientists. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences published their findings in the journal Nature in October. “One of the most fascinating aspects of our result," according to principle investigator [...]Mon 15 Dec 2008
Lauren Younis is a junior at IU, majoring in comparative literature and journalism with a specialization in public relations. Her first love was fashion journalism until she spend a summer working at Fermilab, the largest particle physics research center in the nation. It was then she decided to pursue a career in science journalism. In [...]Tue 16 Dec 2008
If you’re willing to bet you’d rather read Dante than Dawkins or listen to Bach before Bohr, Natalie Angier’s The Canon probably won’t change your mind—despite its best efforts. The premise of the book is this: The public doesn’t care for science. We find it more socially refined to go to the opera than to [...]