by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 24, 2010 | Blog, News
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programs for the Analytical Engine, a...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog, News
We’ve got a few announcements to make this week re: awesome awards for inventors. More on that shortly. In the interim, check out this video from Motherboard TV about the world’s most prolific inventor. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, better known as Dr. NakaMats has...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 4, 2010 | News, Writings
Here’s a piece I wrote for Discover Magazine.com yesterday about a pharmaceutical ice cream–called ReCharge–New Zealand is producing to counter side effects of chemotherapy. I learned about this in The Scientist. The most important ingredient:...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 24, 2010 | News, Science Education
This morning, the BBC reports the British Library will interview and record 200 scientists to form a permanent record of the way British science has been practiced. “This is going to be enormously valuable to future historians because people no longer write...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog, News
Thanks, John, for sharing this from Utne.com, “a digest of independent ideas and alternative culture. Not right, not left, but forward thinking. Most interested in creating a conversation about everything from the environment to the economy, politics to pop...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 13, 2010 | News, video
Thanks to The Rugbyologist for sending this.
