Art Chester's Blog, page 26
June 10, 2014
Handwriting, Dyslexia & the Superkid
Science Fact: Handwriting is an educational supertool. It can develop your kids’ fine motor skills as well as their fine thinking skills. And it may even help overcome dyslexia! A New York Times articleis the most recent example of a … Continue reading →
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June 6, 2014
An Amazing Fifty Year Future
Science Fact: A fifty year future forecast! Our future starts in the past with this poster of Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis as restored in 2010 and available for purchase on DVD. Metropolis, the first film to show a robot, … Continue reading →
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June 3, 2014
Brain Sync & the Guitar Mind-Meld
Science Fact: Brain sync. Brainwave synchronization. A story of New Age stoners, hackers, hucksters and the frontiers of medicine. The Brain Sync Headline Brain sync popped up stage center with an article titled New Study Shows How Guitar Players’ Brains … Continue reading →
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May 29, 2014
The Gigantic Not So Big House
Science Fact: Not So Big is the phrase coined by architect Sarah Susanka in a series of very readable booksbeginning in 1998. I discovered her first book, The Not So Big House, within a year after buying my last house … Continue reading →
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May 28, 2014
Rice, Wheat and Innovation
Science Fact: Rice, wheat, meat. Does what we eat affect our ability to innovate? How about what our great-great-(40 greats)-grandparents ate? We might expect a nutritionist or a geneticist to study those questions. However, today it’s a team of psychologists … Continue reading →
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May 23, 2014
STEM Education #2: Politics Trumps Science
Science Fact. STEM education – science, technology, engineering and math – can only take us so far when it comes up against politics. Part 1of this post described the career opportunities and general technical literacy that make STEM education an … Continue reading →
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STEM Education #1: Science Solves Problems
Science Fact: STEM education means science, technology, engineering and math. Different from the stem cells this blog featured last week (Part 1& Part 2) — yet also vital to modern life and health. This postalso comes in two parts: Part … Continue reading →
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May 15, 2014
Stem Cells #2: Innovation from Political Restrictions
Science Fact: Researchers studying stem cells have created life-saving miracles, all while working within society’s legal and ethical limits. Tuesday’s Part 1 related the discovery of stem cells and recognition of their life-saving potential. Today’s Part 2 tells how political … Continue reading →
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May 13, 2014
Stem Cells #1: Discovery and Promise
Science Fact: Stem cells have many stories to tell. Depending on the teller, you may hear: - a tale of politics interfering with life-saving medical research; - of babies saved because scientists were not allowed to use fetal tissue; - … Continue reading →
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May 9, 2014
Energy from Space, Energy from Algae
Science Fact: Energy from Space and Energy from Algae are both Big Ideas trying to answer a Big Problem. In this case the Big Problem is the world’s expanding thirst for energy. The U.S. makes up 4.4% of the world’s … Continue reading →
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