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Blasts from the Past: Popular Science Turns 150

May 5, 2022 by jabill007

For the month of May, 2022, which marks Popular Science magazine’s 150th year, I’ve curated some amazing stories from the archives. From Germ Theory (1883) to the advent of cellular […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events Tagged With: 150, anniversary, popular science, science, technology

Popular Science “The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science”

September 20, 2021 by

These US-based engineers, psychologists, chemists, and more are taking on society’s biggest challenges across the world. Check out my new feature in Popular Science. These young scientists are inspiring! The […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events Tagged With: energy, environment, health, science, space, technology

Popular Science “The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine”

May 13, 2021 by

100 years ago, doctors sent a heartbeat over a phone line, as reported by Popular Science in 1921 , but devices enabling remote care may have finally found their moment: […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events Tagged With: EKG, heart, monitoring, pandemic, sensors, telemedicine

Popular Science “Can we make ourselves more empathetic?”

April 6, 2021 by

This piece looks back 100 years into Popular Science’s archives to a story that covered the first experiments with electricity used to measure human emotions. We’ve come a long way, […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events Tagged With: artificial intelligence, EKG, emotion, empathy, polygraph, sensors

Checkout My OneZero Article on Aerial Hospitals

March 16, 2020 by

“The need to rapidly deploy supplementary, state-of-the-art medical care — including the ability to properly quarantine — to regions of the world where existing medical infrastructure has been overwhelmed by […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events Tagged With: coronavirus, Covid-19, hospital, humanitarian relief, medicine, natural disaster

My WIRED article on AI in Conservation

July 10, 2018 by

Want to discover the ways that artificial intelligence is helping us combat climate change? Check out my new article in WIRED (thank you, Scott!) How Artificial Intelligence Could Prevent Natural […]

Filed Under: Articles & Essays, News & Events

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