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Farnsworth’s Fusion: What’s It All About?
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Last February, Conrad Farnsworth achieved nuclear fusion in his father’s shed in Wyoming*. This would be a big deal were it not for fourteen other high school...
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‘Inspiration Mars’ Inspires
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Mars seems to be everywhere these days. Who will go? How will we go? When will we go? These questions have yet to be answered. Dennis Tito, a millionaire with...
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Martian Rhapsody: Chapter 1 – Landing (REVISED)
[Note 7/6/14: See Chapter 2 – Rocks. -Editor] Harry Keller To the reader: I’ve decided to redo chapter one to incorporate story ideas that wouldn’t have been possible with the original chapter. Please...
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Acronym in Cheek: STEM, STEAM…
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education [Note: See Bob Hoffmann's response in "Proposal for a Holistic Emphasis in K-12" (11/24/13). -Editor] STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)...
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Mars: One-Way or Round-Trip?
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education [Note: This is part of Harry's series on Mars, which began with "Mars One: Exciting Adventure or Hoax?" (4/8/13). As of 12/8/13, the discussion is still very...
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GIS Helps School District Extend Facilities Management Beyond the Physical Plant
By Jim Baumann Esri Writer The Garland Independent School District (GISD) is located in north-central Texas, adjacent to Dallas. The district encompasses approximately 100 square miles and serves the...
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Geography? T3G…ESRI in Education
By Vic Sutton While at a recent workshop at the Redlands, CA, headquarters of the Environmental Science Research Institute (ESRI), I heard the most concise definition of geography yet: “What where? Why...
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Martian Rhapsody: Chapter 2 – Rocks
[Note: See chapter 1, Landing. Also see Harry's Mars One: Exciting Adventure or Hoax?, especially the long-running, extended discussion at the end of the article. See his other Mars related articles in...
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Dinosaurs Among Us?
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education You may have noticed one of the many articles such as this one that cast doubt on the asteroid (or comet) strike that annihilated the dinosaurs. Oh, the...
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Real Aliens: What Will They Look Like?
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education We live in a very large universe. By all accounts, it’s over 14 billion light-years to the edge from here. That’s nearly 10,000 billion billion miles. Our...
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The ‘Fury’ of War Tanks
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education The new Hollywood movie, FURY, focuses on tanks, their role, and tank crews in World War II. This 2-hour 14-minute film opens in theaters on Friday, 17 Oct....
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‘The Theory of Everything’– A Hollywood Take on Science
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education The new movie, The Theory of Everything, is about the life of Stephen Hawking from his graduation from Oxford to his becoming famous and then separating from...
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Stellar Movie Fudges Science
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Interstellar is a great story with excellent acting, especially from Matthew McConaughey and Mackenzie Foy. For me, the three hours felt more like a normal...
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‘Big Hero 6′ Delights and Challenges
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Only a few true nerds, such as myself, will be at all challenged with Big Hero 6. Let me explain. Big Hero 6 is about four students at San Fransokyo Institute...
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Mars One: 10 Potential University Payloads to Mars in 2018
Photo courtesy of Bryan Versteeg and Mars One. Amersfoort,1st December 2014 – Mars One is proud to present the ten Mars One University Competition finalists eligible to fly to Mars. One of these ten...
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What Sort of Intelligence?
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education You may have noticed recent news about Stephen Hawking predicting the demise of the human race due to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)1. Others of...
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‘Better Than Earth’? – Baloney
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education “Superhabitable” worlds may be common in our galaxy, making ideal homes for extraterrestrial life — Scientific American cover, January 20151. Years ago, Carl...
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The Science of Deflategate
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education The New England Patriots have muddled up the Super Bowl in a grand fashion. It might as well be an MIT prank but on a national scale. We haven’t see the like...
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New Exoplanets Very Old
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education With all of the hoopla over exoplanet discoveries in recent years, it’s a big surprise that this one did not receive more attention. Kepler-444 is a small...
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Mars One: 100 Still in Running to Be First Humans on Mars
Amersfoort, 16th February 2015 – From the initial 202,586 applicants, only 100 hopefuls have been selected to proceed to the next round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Process. These candidates are...
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