Some updates
Well, to celebrate the revamped home of this blog (and also to catch up on a few months of sheer and utter neglect), here are a couple things I've been up to.
July: Wrote about open source intelligence, predicting war with physics, biological clocks and educational mobile apps. Got to mess around with some data and use Illustrator in class (win!)
August: For some reason, this month was overrun with silly combat outfits and military uniforms. "Real journalism!" as my editor Noah Shachtman would say.
September: Probably the most difficult (and exciting) project I worked on all summer was a series of infographics about the transformation of the US military from 9/11 to today. (Lesson: dozens of calls to the Defense Department do eventually lead to something.) The numbers are sobering.
October: Switched over to Scientific American MIND, exchanging military technology for social behavior and fingerprint genetics.
November: Attended SfN's Neuroscience 2011, just about the most overwhelming science conference you could imagine. 31,000 people. Neuroscientists swarming around everywhere. It was fantastic. The first morning, after about four and a half cups of coffee, I decided to pick a random topic (music! why not?) and try to see all the relevant talks/posters. I didn't even get that far (who knew the auditory section of the poster hall would be a whole 6 rows?!) but learned some quirky facts about bilinguals and pitch.
Hopefully I'll post again before another five months go by...