by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 1, 2009 | In the News, OTA
Today, readers of The Scientist magazine found something new in their journal: a picture of Penn and Teller and cheerleaders! Hot off the press, here’s an article The Scientist ran about the Science Cheerleader’s push to restore federal science policy to...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 20, 2009 | Brain Makeover, Citizen Science, Events, In the News, Interviews, OTA, Science Education, Science Policy
Now THIS radio interview was fun. And, more importantly, the fact we’ve hit FOX national news, the Toronto Star , news media in Switzerland, Argentina and the U.K., and this hard rock station (WXRX) in the mid west, tells us we are accomplishing what we set out...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 25, 2009 | Blog, Occam's Razor, OTA, Science Policy
Ode to the OTA from Occam: (I particularly appreciate the line about “public input”.) Around 1599 Shakespeare penned “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” to an unnamed lover. As I believe that imitation is the sincerest form of...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 10, 2009 | Blog
From the White House: “Look for a blog post on participation beginning on June 10th and get involved! We improve citizen participation by demonstrating its effectiveness in practice.” SC Note: Of course this came from the White House. Will we live to see...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 15, 2009 | Blog, News
….I received a Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania where I studied the role of citizens in science. Here I am with my co-graduate, comedian Yakov Smirnoff! 🙂 This led to my current push to restore the Congressional Office of Technology...
