I did a nine part radio series on research and science out at the Kluane Lake Research Station this Summer. It was under the auspices of the International Polar Year and the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA). AINA and Ruth Klinkhammer did a great job at compiling and showcasing my work at the Station [...]
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Kluane Lake Research Station Radio Series Leave a comment
Positively Beaufort, the new Yukon term for “freakin’ cold”? 1 comment
Meagan Grabowski didn’t know she was coming up with a catch phrase, but a visit to Herschel Island for a couple of weeks, and she was a one-woman neologist. ”It started at Pika Camp,” a remote camp for researchers a few kilometres away from the Kluane Lake Research Station. ”We were coming up with [...]
Bringing Star Wars to the Research Station: Part I Leave a comment
Part I: A New Thought “And now you will witness the full power of this station….” General Tarkington, Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope As a science fiction writer embedded now as a science writer at a northern research station, [...]
Transparent Aluminum created: without Scotty or Dr. McCoy! Leave a comment
Hey folks, this straight from Yahoo News. Never thought I’d hear the day, but they created Transparent Aluminum. And they did it by knocking out a core electron from the aluminum atom… Read more here: Scientists Claim New State of Matter Created
Why You Should Subscribe to New Scientist, and why you have to put it down 1 comment
Science Fiction writers have a strange relationship to science. To write compelling science fiction, I think a writer has to do some research. Where would Crichton’s Jurassic Park have been without Chaos theory and real-life paleontologists? And you want your ideas to be ahead of the game, so get yourself some subscriptions. I know, we [...]
