The time has finally come! I can finally reveal a photography project that I originally started working on back in February. It was such an entertaining, yet challenging project and I enjoyed it thoroughly. What was especially cool was that during this project I had the wonderful opportunity to work with one of my heroes, Donna, aka Ms. Information. So what was this super-secret photography projec... »
Headshots from the Heart is a fundraising event benefiting the remarkable charity, Child’s Play. It is happening next weekend and you can of course donate or participate in their geektastic auctions.I’m going to swoon a little now over how happy the existence of these charities makes me. Child’s Play itself is two parts brilliant and three parts heartwarming, baked at incredibly ... »
For a person on the fence about a scientific issue, especially a personal one like GMOs, fluoridated drinking water, or vaccines, a seed of doubt is often all it takes to push them over the fence on the side opposite the scientific consensus. That’s why internet memes touting the dangers of these issues can be so effective — those against them only have to make you wonder “what i... »
There is a pervasive, systematic campaign to take the achievements of hard working and psychologically twisted engineers away and credit them to the demented scientific research community. Too often are death rays and killer robots attributed to a lunatic scientist when they truly belong to a deranged engineer. No more will the crackpot inventors of the world toil under this oppressive misrepresen... »
The Green Ninja Show is series of videos that use live-action, animation, humor, and a greenhouse gas-butt-kicking superhero to demonstrate easy ways for people to impact climate change. They’re running a Kickstarter to produce more episodes, and with only 3 days left they still need a little help to reach their goal. My classmate Julie Noblitt is chair of the project’s advisory board.... »
This video highlights the work of artist, activist and public speaker, Favianna Rodriguez. It illustrates how artists can inspire social change and how much we need artists on the front lines in our battles for humanism and social justice. We need to inspire people, and we can. Get ready to change the world… »
Rob and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary last week. It was wonderful. As we spent our evening together, I pondered how this whole marriage thing got started at all. Why do humans want to pick one person to spend the rest of their life with? For this week’s post, I decided I’d look into marriage and why we’re drawn to it. I also discuss same-sex marriage and why it’... »
I wanted to showcase some of the photos I captured during CSICon 2012, which took place in Nashville from October 25th to 28th. This was the first multi-day skeptical conference experience for Rob and me, and it was remarkable. We finally got to talk to some people that we’ve waited years to meet and we made many new friends. Some of these people helped me through my rough transition into skeptici... »
