Search Results for: label/creativity

• Double Xpression: Karyn Traphagen, co-founder of ScienceOnline

  …llenbosch (South Africa). She has trained physics teachers through the University of Virginia’s Physics department and traveled to South Sudan to conduct professional development training for local teachers. She has more than 10 years of experience developing and teaching online courses. In addition to her science work, Karyn maintains a freelance graphic design studio. Her latest project was a work on Ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions….

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on July 9, 2012

• Double Xpressions: Jennifer Canale, the self-proclaimed "Flamboyant Scientist"

  …ive to a point, but when I asked for an erector set for Christmas, I got a Barbie town house. When I wanted to go camping with the Girl Scouts, I was sent to dance school (but, much to my amazement, I enjoyed that until I was 17).  My parents started giving in around 3rdgrade, and I got the panda bear-shaped calculator I wanted, as well as the robot toy 2XL featuring the 8-track tape. My mom would beg me to watch Little House On the Prairie, but…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on November 30, 2012

• Double Xpression: Liz Neeley, Science Communicator Extraordinaire

  …s code thing.  One day, when I was in the lab, I was wearing this pink, strappy sundress, tied up the back, and these stupid platform sandals that were really tall (clearly not appropriate lab gear).  I was scrubbing out this 100-gallon oyster tank and my advisor happened to walk by and he sees me doing this. I remember freezing – all of the sudden I was afraid he was going to mock me or lecture me, but he just said, “Oh, Liz… Keep on.” My gradu…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on June 11, 2012

• Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

  …e X Extra: A triglyceride can have up to three different fatty acids attached to it. Canola oil, for example, consists primarily of oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid, all of which are unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in their chains. Why do we take in fat anyway? Fat is a necessary nutrient for everything from our nervous systems to our circulatory health. It also, under appropriate conditions, is an excellent way to store up…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 8, 2012

• Double Xpression: Meghan Groome

  …to learn when it’s appropriate to pull out my soap box and go full-out social justice to them. This is changing, but for a long time I kept my personality under wraps in a professional setting. It’s only now — with 10 years professional experience, great organizations on my resume, and a PhD — that I can be clever, confront those I disagree with, and even smile. Anyone who’s ever had a beer with me knows that I’m a goofball and w…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on February 6, 2012

• Double Xpression: Debbie Berebichez, PhD Physicist

  …ir life stories.  I didn’t have any family members, or anyone else for that matter, that had pursued a career in science, so I didn’t have a mentor or a role model.  I felt an extreme kinship with Tycho Brahe, who in the late 1500’s was locked in a tower, doing all of these calculations for years, hated by everyone in the town.  Go figure! I felt some kinship with these scientists.   But I didn’t have the courage nor the means to switch majors. …

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on June 2, 2012

• DoubleXpressions — Nazneen Rahman, Cancer Doctor and Jazz Singer

  …songs and I’ve really loved it. Initially I was just doing it as a musical outlet for myself, but last year I posted some of my songs online and had a really positive response, which was unexpected and lovely. I now have over 1000 followers and have been inspired to make an album which I am hoping to release sometime in 2013. My songs tend be stories about the complexities of life, with lush harmonies, quite a jazzy feel and I have a fondness for…

  Authored by Chris Gunter on February 28, 2013

• Mariette DiChristina

  …ninity and in what ways? How does this expression influence people’s perception of you in, say, a scientifically oriented context? MD: I was the oldest of three daughters raised by a single dad (my mom died when I was 12) and I was always a tomboy, playing softball through college and so on. So I can’t say I’ve ever been terribly feminine, at least in the stereotypical ways. At the same time, I’m obviously a wife and a mother who, like mo…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on February 17, 2012

• After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

  Protip: Don’t diagnose based on speculation. by Jessica Wright                Attention journalists: If you’ve been calling people “nuts” or “deranged” in your stories, the Associated Press is recommending that it’s time you stopped. This guideline — along with the common-sense assertion that writers shouldn’t diagnose individuals with a mental illness based entirely on speculation — is part of a new recommendation added to the AP styleboo…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on March 27, 2013

• How important for children is imaginary play?

  Olde tyme tea party. Girls engaging in pretend play, 19th c.Photo via Wikimedia; public domain in US. Did you engage in imaginary play as a child? A recent study–which like the organic foods study involved evaluation of existing reports in one big chunk–has led its authors to conclude that imaginary or pretend play doesn’t seem to boost intelligence, creativity, or the ability to tackle problems. The researchers did fi…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on September 8, 2012