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By Scott Michael Slone
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high…
Many of our readers might be familiar with Reading Rainbow, an educational children’s show that aired on PBS during the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. It was a show dedicated to promoting reading in a child’s life and promoting critical thinking about what they were reading, much like the show Bill Nye The Science Guy promoted scientific thought and analysis. Continue reading “Crowdfunding Gold under the Reading Rainbow”
By Paul Caine Producer, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
What does climate change and national security have to do with each other? Everything according to international science and military experts. They say changing weather patterns effect food and freshwater availability resulting in a competition for resources and possible political instability. We take a closer look at the issue on Scientific Chicago with retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney, CEO of the American Security Project, Elisabeth Moyer, co-director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy, and Andrew Holland, senior fellow for Energy and Climate from the American Security Project.
By Zoe Hunter
In case the cold weather kept you away from C2STs latest event entitled “Is This Safe to Eat?,” here is a quick recap.
By Elise Byun, Medill Reports
By Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune
Dirk Morr came of age in Germany in the 1970s watching the television show “Star Trek,” which was dubbed in German. Imagine Capt. James Kirk’s often parodied, halting speech pattern delivered in a foreign language.
The show and its idea to boldly go “where no man has gone before” sparked in Morr a deep curiosity and love for science. Today, Morr, 47, is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Continue reading “Trice: UIC professor sets phasers to fun in ‘Star Trek’ Q&A”
