by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 25, 2009 | Blog, News
This weekend through April 4th will mark the inaugural San Diego Science Festival (SDSF), planned as one of the largest multicultural, multigenerational, multidisciplinary celebrations of science ever seen on the West Coast. The festival will descend on San Diego with...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 24, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, News
Science Cheerleader subscriber (and close friend) Roz sent in this news tip. Turns out we CAN generate sparkling images of stars even in light polluted areas. (A little more on light pollution here.) Her neurologist, Steve Mazlin, is also an...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education
This is National Engineers Week, a celebration to “ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers among young students and by promoting pre-college literacy in...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News
Yesterday, the National Academy of Engineering presented THREE half-million dollar prizes. One, the Draper Prize, is considered the “Nobel Prize of Engineering” (there is no Nobel for engineering, even though Nobel himself was an engineer). And the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News
New Wallace and Gromit animation to promote the upcoming World of Cracking Ideas exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition runs from 28 March until 1 November 2009. Thanks for the tip, subscriber Michael from England!
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 9, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, News
NEWSWEEK’s Malcolm Jones compares revolutionaries Lincoln and Darwin in this fascinating article. A couple of highlights from the report (much of it based on the book “The Rebel Giants” by David R. Contosta). -Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were...
