by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 2, 2009 | Blog, News
A new species of jelly fish has been discovered and, in celebration of the Year of Science 2009, the public is being called upon to come up with a name for this species! Through June 14th, you can learn how species are named by scientists and submit your own...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 27, 2009 | Blog, News
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Rover, scheduled to head to Mars in 2011, will carry the names of earthlings on a microchip. Want your name included? NASA has made it easy as pie right here. The Mars Science Laboratory is a rover that will assess whether Mars...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 25, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education
Guest post from Stephen Zachary. The past few weeks have seen a number of entertaining and interesting animal behavior articles published in academic journals. Entertaining because, well, who doesn’t get a kick out of the video above? Interesting because the...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 15, 2009 | Blog, News
….I received a Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania where I studied the role of citizens in science. Here I am with my co-graduate, comedian Yakov Smirnoff! 🙂 This led to my current push to restore the Congressional Office of Technology...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 13, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, News
One of the most fascinating people I’ve had the pleasure of working with is Dr. Story Musgrave (I used to introduce him at public events when I worked for Disney; pictured left at my house with me and my husband.) Story is a six-time shuttle...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 5, 2009 | Blog, News
Guest post by Stephen. With its 140 character limit, you’d be pretty hard-pressed to post something significant or influential on Twitter. In fact, many of the Twitter naysayers out there would be forgiven for thinking that the social networking tool is just another...
