Archive of Writings
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Speaking Truth to Power: The once and future speech
On the wall of my office is a framed piece of paper that I often think of removing because it may just seem too ostentatious. I keep it there for me - not for anyone else no matter what they may think. It is a just a flattened out table name-card like you get at a...
When life gives you s***, find the manure fork
TL;DR version - Will join me Friday in writing & calling our legislatures to argue for science and science education? There are days that are rotten, and weeks that need a reset button. Sometimes moments of too much wrongness extend across months or even...
My best friend
A few months ago on Twitter (or maybe it was only weeks?) I remember reading about Neil Gaiman losing his beloved dog. A few days ago, JC Hutchins spoke of the death of Lap Kitteh. I haven't lost a pet in many years, but when my first horse died in 2003 the anguish...
Boston, terrorism, and racial profiling of motive
I am a child of Massachusetts. My high school weekends were spent roaming MIT, taking classes with their Educational Studies Program. My summer days were punctuated with afternoons running around the Boston Museum of Science as my friends and I escaped the summer...
Fighting Funding Cuts & Sequestration
Disclaimer: I am writing this post as a private individual. The views in this post are strictly my own, and no approval of an outside entity should be assumed. I have spent the past several weeks trying to figure out how to write this post. Sometimes emotions are so...
Looking for inspiration
I have to admit, life has gotten sufficiently busy that I've lost all track of time and place. Yesterday, waking up in Austin for SXSW Interactive, I was reminded by the intertubes that it is Women's Month, and yesterday (not today) was International Women's Day....
Last Minute Giving
Currently I'm somewhere between the Yucatan Peninsula and Florida. I've been at sea on the Norwegian Pearl since Dec 16 for the End of the World (not) Cruise, and all intentions of buying gifts and sending Christmas cards prior this trip were a complete failure. I...
The internet – this place I live – has a culture. Srsly.
Online culture needs to be recognized as a unique culture. (TL;DR version: *The internet has its own valuable culture. Those of you who only see online media as a way to promote your projects to people who are wasting time online ... please get off my lawn -...
Tweeting from an Asteroid
Disclaimer: I am not the human behind the @AsteroidMappers feed. I have the password, but so does everyone else working on CosmoQuest, and I know that since AsteroidMappers launched Saturday, I've been way too busy to tweet from that account. I haven't tried to sort...
Cosmic Castaways – You’re Invited!
My job let's me do some of the most awesome things. One of those things is narrating planetarium shows. My 2nd planetarium show is premiering Oct. 4 at the Ward Beecher Planetarium in Youngstown, OH on the YSU campus. We're taking advantage of this event to also host...