by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education
This is National Engineers Week, a celebration to “ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers among young students and by promoting pre-college literacy in...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News
Yesterday, the National Academy of Engineering presented THREE half-million dollar prizes. One, the Draper Prize, is considered the “Nobel Prize of Engineering” (there is no Nobel for engineering, even though Nobel himself was an engineer). And the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, News
New Wallace and Gromit animation to promote the upcoming World of Cracking Ideas exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition runs from 28 March until 1 November 2009. Thanks for the tip, subscriber Michael from England!
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog, OTA
As part of the effort to revive the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (with citizen input), team member Todd LaPorte, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, sent the following: “Here’s a 2002 paper on risk...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 14, 2009 | Blog, Interviews
A couple of days ago, I invited readers to submit questions they’d like Ray Kurzweil to answer. The Science Cheerleader and Bartacus will be interviewing Ray Kurzweil (Artificial Intelligence expert; king of the Singularity effort) in the coming weeks. Details...
