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Before we get started, a huge “Thank You” to Johnna Cornett who reworked Cogito! into this nifty new look. Also a big thanks to my wife, Denise, who took the photo in the masthead during a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. Historians of science in general and paleontology in particular will recall the cautionary [...] I’ve recently begun taking a class at nearby Foothill Community College in an effort to gain some mastery over mathematics. It’s an old, old project of mine. Ostensibly I’m at school for the same reason most of the other students believe they are here, namely to get an education that will translate into a job [...] A typical binocular spotting scope, soon to become a nifty telephoto lens. If you are visiting some open space district or county or state park where public telescopes like the one shown in the photo on the left. You might be able to use your digital camera to make shots of remarkably distant objects. I have [...] Note: I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the role of mentors in one’s educational development and remembered the following essay I wrote for the Virtual Conference in Informal Science Education, sponsored by the Society for Amateur Scientists in May, 2004. I’m reprinting it here as a way of dusting off my thinking on [...] A view from the balcony of the Exploratorium on Pi Day. Photo by the author. Last Saturday we accompanied some friends of ours on a trip to the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Many, many years ago the science show Nova featured this marvelous place in one of their programs, and if I recall “The Palace of [...] Elsewhere I have written about the power of projects. There is no educational experience that quite matches making an example of what you are studying, or even a model of it. But the experience of building or making something goes beyond the item itself and can introduce you to skills, tools, and ideas that you [...] In other venues, I’ve lamented the fact that learning how to play with electronics has been one of my intellectual white whales. There are many, many books and web sites out there that exist to help people like me, but most of them fall short. Believe me, this is something on which I can speak [...] The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for being full of people who have interesting ideas and, what’s more, are prone to act on them. Creativity is the lifeblood of the Bay Area not just in the sense that it provides jobs and income, but that it is something that seems to infuse the [...] Pioneer science fiction author Jules Verne (1828-1905). Today is 08 February, the birthday of Jules Verne. To my mind, one of the truly great visionaries of the modern age. Here was a man who could write of skyscrapers and exploration of the moon or the depths of the sea, writing it all by candlelight in [...] Preliminary note: I would have written this some time ago, but I’ve been beating my head against a wall trying to get YouTube videos to run in a window on this blog. So far, no go, so I must content myself with a lame hyperlink. Still, it’s cool stuff. Explanations follow. When I [...] |
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