John Denver, friend of science, born today in 1943
Today would have been the 67th birthday of singer-songwriter of Henry John Deutschendorf, known better as John Denver. Born in Roswell, New Mexico, a town also better known for the rumored crash of an...
View ArticleMike Taylor and Rocky Mountain High: From the High Country to the Lowcountry
I was away with the family last week and tried to stay away from the blog. But I brought my Martin Backpacker guitar with me and gave a lot of thought to John Denver, the subject of my Dec 31 …...
View ArticleRock ‘n’ roll pharmacist: Brian Van Etten
These are tumultuous times in academia – actually not different than many other fields – where economic pressures are making what used to be a “pure” profession yet just another business. But there are...
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Streams, Bugs, and the Future of Species: An Interview with Chris Funk
On an unseasonably hot day last week in Fort Collins, Colorado, I sat down with Chris Funk, assistant professor of biology at Colorado State University, to learn about a new research project aimed at...
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(Snowless) Mountains Beyond (Snowless) Mountains: A Two-Minute Interview with...
Inspired by the 70-degree temperatures that have settled in recently, last week I invited a couple of writer friends over for lunch al fresco. While we sat in my yard under a cloudless sky, eating...
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The Perfect Firestorm: An Interview with Author Michael Kodas
Two weeks ago, as fires burned to the north and south of my hometown of Boulder, Colorado, I attended a couple of talks at the Aspen Environment Forum about wildfires. On the drive home, my husband and...
View ArticleUpcoming: Nate Silver and I talk politics, baseball, and more
I have a handful of appearances coming up, including two public talks that are part of MIT’s Communications Forum. The first, which is this Thursday at 5 pm, is a special one indeed: I’ll be holding a...
View ArticleLab safety, smallpox and more virulent flu, marijuana benefits, plus...
Lab safety is even worse than you thought The best single blog source for keeping up with the current smallpox-anthrax-flu-lab safety fiasco is Maryn McKenna’s Superbug, one of the Wired blogs. Some...
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