Category Archives: learning curve

#AAAS in 140 or less

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

As many of you know, I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. #ilovewaffles (1/2) Some days, I’m tempted to relinquish my membership for reasons that will remain mysterious, (2/2) and other days, I eagerly watch my Twitter feed as if … Continue reading →

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The World Through Wired Eyes

Posted on February 10, 2011 by

If any masthead defines the culture of tech-geek-cool, it’s Wired. For the savvy, info-hungry reader, Wired gives a smart, incisive take on everything . . . with an extra fleck of awesomeness. Last week the folks behind Student Voices, one … Continue reading →

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The Courage to Write

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

I took along a whole lot of books during winter break, and started with The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear by Ralph Keyes. I ended up reading it cover-to-cover during my flight, as I was completely engrossed. This … Continue reading →

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AGU = A Great Undertaking?

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

I’m stuck at home and dealing with a formidable, unexpected foe: FREE TIME! I think my utter dread of unstructured minutes motivates much of my multi-tasking. Maybe I should be more aware of that. So — I’m creating a blog post, … Continue reading →

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Whales — and a twitterpated writer

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

A few weeks ago, I was thinking about my beat. Today, it’s pretty obvious: I’m grooving with whales. I’m twitterpated (again).             Right whales, photos by Brian Skerry, National Geographic (see also Q&A with Skerry about … Continue reading →

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Training to be a cage-fighter, er, writer

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

Among the lush pickings of memorable lines from the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite, one of the best is Kip’s to his brother: “Napoleon, don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that … Continue reading →

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Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence – Zinsser’s take

Posted on November 27, 2010 by

photo © 2008 hojusaram | more info (via: Wylio) I was reading the closing chapters of Zinsser’s “On Writing Well”. Zinsser has an uncanny knack of pointing out things that I hadn’t thought of before, but that seem obvious once … Continue reading →

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Switching Gears

Posted on November 22, 2010 by

I started today with a plan. I would go into my internship and finish up an article about robots that never showed up. Then I would write a short piece about a local girl scout troop that won a robotics … Continue reading →

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K-tron and Slugnads do Imaging Science

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

Tuesday, 3:30 p.m., PST N: Keith and I are at our hotel in Irvine, the Marriott-something-or-other-resort-and-spa. It’s next door to Bloomingdale’s. Orange County. We’re chilling here for a few days while we attend the Keck Futures conference on Imaging Science. … Continue reading →

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All a-Twitter in New Haven

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

I and six other scribbling slugs rolled back home again after attending ScienceWriters2010. We’ve been basking in the light of the field’s luminaries, gathering advice and business cards and doing what we could to introduce ourselves as up-and-coming colleagues. It … Continue reading →

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