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MAVEN Maneuvers into Orbit Tonight
This article was originally posted at Scientific American Last summer, I attended a new media professionals workshop at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in Colorado to learn more about the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission which launched last November. This orbiter is specially equipped to discover “What happened to the […]
Read Science! Episode 24 : “Sally Ride” Edition, with Lynn Sherr
Today we had a lively discussion with Lynn Sherr about her outstanding biography, “Sally Ride : America’s First Woman in Space”. We talked quite a bit about the sexist barriers that Sally (and Lynn Sherr, herself) help to break down in the early 1980s, listened to stories, and tried to understand what a different time […]
11 Ways Women See STEM as a Four-Letter Word
This article originally appeared at ravishly.com on July 17, 2014, who asked me to contribute. So many articles about women in STEM are quite long because the issues faced are complex and multifactorial, so I took a unique approach be encapsulating the topic in 11 variations on the STEM acronym. “STEM” usually stands for Science, […]
Interview with Physicist Monica Dunford
The announcement of this interview originally was posted at Scientific American
Read Science! Episode 23 : “Marketing the Moon” Edition
Marketing and public relations aren’t our usual subjects on “Read Science!”, but today they very much WERE rocket science, when we talked about the new book “Marketing the Moon : The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program”, with its authors, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek.
Read Science! Episode 25 : “Kitchen Science Lab” Edition, with Liz Heinecke
For this episode, we not only Read Science, we Make Science! Our guest was Liz Heinecke, the Kitchen Pantry Scientist and author of “Kitchen Science Lab for Kids”. We talked about engaging kids and their parents with science through hands-on science fun in the kitchen–and outdoors, for the messier experiments.
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