Dream, Explore, Create at NESCBWI 2018
I spent this past weekend in Springfield, MA with hundreds of other children’s writers, illustrators, editors, and agents. I started going to
From Mind Reading to the Reading Mind
My latest feature article for Science News for Students explores how the brain reads and how the process can go wrong, either
If You Believe in Me, I’ll Believe in You
The latest issue of Muse magazine focuses on artificial intelligence. This topic is one of my absolute favorites to think and write
Microbes, Microbes, Everywhere!
I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing about the microbiome. My June article on Cool Jobs in forensics focused mostly on
Seven Books in One Month
I guess five articles in a few weeks doesn’t seem so impressive any more! I had seven books come out in August
Five Articles in Three Weeks
Apparently, I’ve been busy! In a span of three weeks, five of my articles came out on Science News for Students. June 8, 2017:
Robots and Cyborgs
Recently, I’ve written two articles for Science News for Students about robotics: Teaching robots right from wrong and Wired and weird: Meet the cyborg
A Love of Language and Letters
A very special article just came out in Muse magazine: “Communing with the Letter Spirits.” This piece is about Douglas Hofstadter’s Letter
Climate Change vs Fracking
Four years ago, I attended a fascinating talk by Richard Alley about melting ice and climate change at the AAAS conference in
How to Make a Dream Journal
I had the most awesome college job ever. I worked in the library repairing books. An elderly gentleman named Chuck taught me