pop culture robots, a historical study: data

pop culture robots, a historical study: data

by | Aug 13, 2015 | my work, robots

#popculturerobots When I first came across Star Trek The Next Generation on late night TV in the early 90’s I fell in love with the show and the awesome characters, including Lieutenant Commander Data (an artificial intelligence and synthetic life form)....
my mamma said: fred

my mamma said: fred

by | Aug 11, 2015 | my mamma said, my work

#MyMammaSaid Thanks to a flawed scientific study in the 1950’s, a US army survival manual in 1970 recommended hat use due to the belief that “40 to 45 percent of body heat” is lost from the head. This has since been debunked and current science...
i prefer to use my own opinion

i prefer to use my own opinion

by | Aug 9, 2015 | my work, words

#DesignerHanmiao @ProjectRunway @TimGunn Perhaps the best quote from the Project Runway Season 14 premier was from designer Hanmiao Yang… “I prefer to use my own opinion.” Just killer. A very polite way of saying “Shut up Tim Gunn…...
innovations in science and technology

innovations in science and technology

by | Aug 7, 2015 | my work, words

@TonyAbbottMHR @neiltyson Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a super star of modern science and with his recent trip to Oz he has been gracing our TV screens all week. Yay! He was on QandA at the beginning of the week and The Project at the end of the week. This is why I love...
what i learnt this week :: WEEK 32

what i learnt this week :: WEEK 32

by | Aug 7, 2015 | my work, what i learnt this week

#WhatILearntThisWeek This week I read and shared an article tilted How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain (The New York Times). You don’t really need a science degree to observe that city dwellers experience more anxiety and lots of studies have confirmed this...