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Science Writer Jennifer Ouellette

You Really Can Survive a Zombie Apocalypse ... As Long As You Have a Calculator

Science writer Jennifer Ouellette is the author, most recently, of The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Before moderating a panel on why algebra matters, she talked about her faux-French Twitter avatar (Jen-Luc Piquant), her first car (a battered Toyota), and the cocktail you’re most likely to find her drinking (the Corpse Reviver #2).

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Hello, Mr. Chips

Craig R. Barrett, Former CEO and President of Intel, Discusses the Future Of Nanotechnology

by Sarah Rothbard |

When Michael M. Crow, the president of Arizona State University, introduced Craig R. Barrett, the former CEO and president of Intel, he called Barrett “a singularly important actor in one …

Climate Scientist Alex Hall

Don’t Ask Me If Global Warming Has Us Totally Screwed (Especially When I’m Drinking)

Alex Hall studies the climate system from both regional and global perspectives as a professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Before participating in a panel on …

New York Times Environmental Writer Andrew Revkin

Embracing Your Inner Dork, One Emoticon at a Time

Andrew Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for The New York Times and is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University’s Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. Before …

Environmental Historian Jon Christensen

Digging on Cool, Diverse, Strange, Beautiful SoCal

Environmental historian Jon Christensen is a recent Los Angeles transplant from Northern California and an adjunct assistant professor and Pritzker fellow in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and …


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