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A Look at the Five Dimensions of Curiosity
Recently, I’ve been challenged to consider curiosity and its role in envisioning future technologies through exploring the #alwayscurious initiative at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany on their 350th anniversary. They’ve partnered with many scientists, artists, and thinkers to more fully explore and share ideas about curiosity. I was delighted to come across a recent series of […]
EMD Performance Materials Looks to the Future at #CES2020
Once again this year, I was given the opportunity to visit the team from EMD Performance Materials Group at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 7-10. (Full disclosure, the trip and this post were sponsored by EMD Performance Materials Corp., a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). I visited them last year […]
Meeting Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany at #CES2019
I was given a great opportunity to visit with the team from EMD Performance Materials Group at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 8-11. (Full disclosure: the trip and this post were sponsored by EMD Performance Materials Corp., a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). When I’d mention in conversations that I’d […]
Sciencegoddess’ Favorite Science Books 2016
Anyone who follows me on social media knows of my predilection for popular science books (as well as other non-fiction and fiction, too!) By my count, I read (or listened to) well over 75 books in 2016, including finally (FINALLY) reading and enjoying the science fiction classic Read Player One. What follows is a list […]
Memories of Science Classes Past
When I was approached to participate in tonight’s #STEMchat on twitter with Bayer, who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Making Science Make Sense program, disjointed memories of science information from various teachers began to pop into my mind. I thought of Mr. Beccue in 5th grade helping us burn feathers and hair to teach […]
Popular Science Books as Science Communication #SciTalk19
I am quite pleased to put my popular science book reading hobby/obsession to good use and give a 20 minute presentation to fellow science communicators at the Science Talk ’19 conference. Before I provide the list of books presented, many authored by women, you may be interested in the fact that I maintain a list […]
6 years ago Books, Read Science!, Science, Science Literacy, STEM, Women in STEM • Tags: books, Read Science!, science books