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  • From STEM to STEAM or Pardon Me While I Water My Garden

    In recent years, emphasis in education has been put on getting science-minded students to major in the STEM studies: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.  While these are vitally important to […]

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  • Bubonicon 50 – 2018

    Well, the Bubonicon Science Fiction convention #50 here in Albuquerque, NM is over for 2018.  It ran from August 24 to 26, and as I do every year, I attended as much of […]

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  • Writing; Also Reading

    In the almost twenty years since I started writing fiction, I’ve noticed a change in the way I read that same genre.  I started my career as a scientist many, many years […]

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  • Beyond Creativity

    What is it we are actually doing by being creative?  That is, by making up a story such as a novel or a short story, or by producing a scientific […]

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  • Science vs. Politics: A Personal View

    I’m not by nature a political person.  I do have my own strongly held convictions on the political issues of the day, and I vote in every election I can get my […]

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