Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...
There was a time when those of us in the Women In Science (WIS) book-verse considered it a banner year when TWO new major releases featuring a prominent woman ...
What happens when two great friends - Jennifer Pharr Davis, a record-setting hiker who has covered over 14,000 miles of long distance trails on six different c...
Science communication is all too often a matter of reporting end states. Scientist X has discovered Thing Y, and we should be happy/anxious/enraged about...
In a tent in Iraq, an Englishwoman attempts to sleep as mice crawl over her body and cockroaches look on from the walls. She is exhausted, having divided...
One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...
In 1980, PBS broadcast a series that defined for a generation what Science Communication could and must be. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, co-written by Carl...
Gillian Flynn declared the book, "Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing." Stephen King said it was, "Unputdownable." Ruth Ware called it, "A dark, twisty confection."...