An old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I'd like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what?
As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking for blog posts about the festival's speakers - quick hits, mostly: some background, an interview,…
The James Webb Space Telescope will orbit something called L2, discovered thanks to math in an era where only sheep (and a duck and a rooster) flew. (Courtesy NASA)
My 12-year-old daughter, as 12-year-old daughters do, asked me what's the use of math. I wrote a book about space engineers. Their work is the manifestation of math. I have…
The Borup Fiord Pass Glacier Astrobiology research team (L to R): Christopher Trivedi, Steve Grasby, Alexis Templeton, Graham Lau, and John Spear. In addition to advancing microbiology, this research team proved that humans can indeed hover. (Courtesy of John Spear).
I do some writing for the Colorado School of Mines, which is really one helluvan institution…