To Whom it May Concern, I was really pleased to see the Brilliants Nail Polish Line. I love the colors (especially the Naughty Newton! Love the black!), and I really like how the names are for famous brilliant scientists. I think it’s a great way to link science to people’s every day lives. I noticed though, that […]

What keeps women out of academic fields? A new paper out in Science says that it’s expectations of genius. The more academics believe that what they do requires innate talent,* the fewer women are in those fields. As I wrote about this paper, called outside sources and scrapped the original lede, I ended up thinking […]

Back in December, I gave something called a Story Collider. It’s a performance (and podcast), where people tell stories about science and their lives. I told the story of a hero I once had. The recording is above and I’m including (with permission) a rough transcript of the story below. It never comes out quite […]

(The Tempest by William Hogarth, The Yorck Project, Wikimedia Commons) On New Year’s Eve this year I got to see a performance of The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. In this, one of the last of Shakespeare’s plays (perhaps the last, but that’s a tough thing to determine), Prospero is a grand […]