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Welcome back to the Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! We took a little hiatus, but we’re back to our conversations on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week’s film is another 20-year-old classic from 1999: The Matrix.Read more…
We will likely continue to find more data that help us understand our past in greater detail, but the picture emerging at present involves multiple locations across Africa, of which this region of Botswana is likely one but not the only.Read more…
Amidst all the conversations of how to best pay for healthcare in the United States, we also need to discuss how to best treat patients for those dollars.Read more…
As I wrangle more conversations into a shareable format for our sci-fi film festival (thanks for your patience), let’s return to a sci-fi topic encroaching on our reality: extraterrestrial life.Read more…
Digging into the details of how this year’s Nobel-winning discoveries changed the world.Read more…
There are still a number of great folks chatting with me about sci-fi films for our film festival, but those conversations are still in midstream so we’re taking a break this week. Instead, I’d like to tell you a little bit about an event I had the privilege to participate in last month: ΘeoCon.Read more…
Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I’ll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch alonggh and join the conversation. This week’s film isRead more…
I continue my conversation with Mike Beidler about Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as we chat about continuity, canon, and capitalism.Read more…
Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I’ll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week’s film is 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.Read more…
In the ten-day window when the dates are all palindromes (9 10 19, 9 11 19, etc.), let’s have some math news.Read more…
Biology is not fully reducible to genetics, and behavior is not fully reducible to biology. I’ve found myself using that adage more often in conversation, so I thought perhaps it would be helpful to mention and unpack here. As farRead more…
The setup is that astronaut Catherine Wells has returned to Earth after a nine year absence, the sole survivor of a interstellar mission written off as a complete loss years earlier. She has no recollection of the critical portions of her journey, and thus cannot explain where her crewmates are, why she was gone for so long, and how she got back.Read more…
An invitation to explore the archive of talks from the recent ASA annual meeting.Read more…
I have a lot of respect for the Japanese team that spent 12 years culturing bacteria from a group called Lokiarchaea.Read more…
[A]ccording to the latest Pew survey results, public trust in scientists to act in our best interests is up in the United States.Read more…
Since I’m at the beach this week, it seems like a good time to leave you with a review of Ruth Kassinger’s Slime, a broad survey of all the ways scientists and entrepreneurs are solving problems with algae.Read more…
Twenty nineteen has been a banner year for glimpses at the elusive and previously unseen.Read more…
While I am convinced astronauts really did make the quarter-million mile journey [to the moon], I’ve found myself thinking about the sense in which they did not fully depart the Earth.Read more…
The periodic table turned 150 earlier this year, or at least March 1 was the 150th anniversary of the publication of Dmitri Mendeleev’s version.Read more…
If we cannot avoid metaphors, we can at least be transparent about how we use them and think critically to identify when they have reached the limits of usefulness.Read more…
I thought it might be a good idea to try to get ahead of the curve on a new story. This one involves a topic likely to be of greater interest to the science & faith community: life on Mars.Read more…
Last week, NIH Director and BioLogos founder Francis Collins announced that he would no longer accept invitations to conferences with all-male panels.Read more…
Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone was not my first introduction to emerging infectious diseases. … Still, Preston’s controversial best seller likely introduced me to the Ebola virus and to concepts like biosafety level 4 laboratories.Read more…
[The Big Nine] reads like a blend of science fact and fiction as [author Amy] Webb tells us where we’ve been and imagines where we might go.Read more…