For years, I spent the holidays in a state of listlessness. Without a car, I’m unable to find a way home to visit my family for Christmas, and all of my friends went home to theirs. I found my sanity and solution to the listlessness in giving science at a local hospital children’s ward.
Category: The Captain
From the Captain’s Desk
My motivation for starting a science literacy program
Science literacy. It’s more than a buzz-phrase, it is a foundation stone of science itself. Without it, we would not have lively debates, new ideas building off old ideas, and the all important critical thinking to keep the cycle going. Generally, teachers look for “literacy” in the form of understanding and doing well on exams. …
The vocabulary of science
Language is probably the most important thing we have as human beings. It allows us to share ideas, feelings, thoughts, and news. We use it every day to communicate who we are, what we believe in, and express our emotions and desires. In communicating science, it has an additional dimension to it, whereas it shares …
Two unavoidable benefits of studying abroad
One of the best pieces of advice I got as an undergraduate was from a professor trying to convince me to join his study-abroad trip. Dr. Gordon Young said, “You are going to be in debt for the rest of your life, so you might as well have something to remember it by.” It took …
What makes a scientist?
When doing community outreach for science, you hear some amazingly intuitive questions. Normally these questions are from the inquisitive minds of five- or six-year olds, and are along the lines of how things work and why they work that way. While doing a demonstration on vortexes in tornadoes, one eight-year old little girl had other …
How we’re making money
Sometimes little kids can be the most perceptive when it comes to business, and they don’t even know it. While I was talking with some of the kids at the school about what I do, and the company, one kid asked, “So, if you help people for cheap or free, how do you make money?”
In memorandum: Garfield, the Turkey Cat
First off, I’d like to apologise for there being no updates here on the blog lately. When you hear why, you’ll understand. Let me tell you the story of Garfield, lovingly called Turkey for his initial round shape.
The good, the bad, and the apology
I need to tell you all a little tale about what happens when they let me free to clean up things on the forums and behind the scenes. This, of course, comes with a confession about how OCD on organised and clean I like things to be. Well, I’m a little OCD on having things …
More dirt on the boss
Many of you rarely get a behind the scenes look at the puppet master of an operation, so I thought it might be fun (and sometimes funny) to share a little tidbits about myself as they happen to pop up and someone captures it on camera. No, I’m not camera shy, but the stuff I …