Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.9, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Bill Gourgey Science Past, Science Future ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://gourgey.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Johns Hopkins University Excellence in Teaching Award!](https://gourgey.com/2023/12/01/johns-hopkins-university-excellence-in-teaching-award/) - Thank you to the fabulous faculty and students at Johns Hopkins University! I am honored to receive the 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award for the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences AAP MA in Science Writing Program! A special thanks to Melissa Hendricks Joyce, Associate Director. - [Gastropod - Food from Thin Air](https://gourgey.com/2025/11/05/gastropod-food-thin-air/) - Check out my discussion with Gastropod: It may seem like magic, but it is possible to manufacture "food from thin air"-at least in appearance. If you want to discover how, and which companies are doing it today, listen to the fabulous podcast, Gastropod, hosted by Nicky Twilley and Cynthia Graber. After I wrote about century-old - [Delmarva Review – Anthology](https://gourgey.com/2025/11/01/delmarva-review-volume-16-copy/) - Our final edition of Delmarva Review! As managing editor for a decade, I couldn't be more pleased with this compilation of authors and their inspiring work-poetry, essays, and short stories. It has been a privilege and joy working with a phenomenal editorial team, showcasing contemporary literature from established and emerging writers. Thank you. - [Amerigo's Foot](https://gourgey.com/2019/01/21/amerigos-foot/) - From Unfamiliar Fruit, Volume 1 (with a new ending only available here) Amerigo's Foot When Amerigo awoke to the smell of eggs and sausage, two familiar thoughts hit him at once: Man, my stomach hurts! and ¿Por qué siempre tengo tanta hambre? By thirteen, Amerigo had watched the scale sail past three hundred pounds. Now, at sixteen, - [Delmarva Review Volume 16 – Inspired!](https://gourgey.com/2023/11/15/delmarva-review-volume-16/) - As managing editor, I'm biased, but I'm more inspired than ever by this year's edition of Delmarva Review! The collection of poems, short stories, and essays capture the angst, joy, challenges, and small victories that signify the times in which we now live. This year's contributors range from a Ukrainian poet writing about the war - [Sneak Preview - Castle Keep](https://gourgey.com/2019/01/18/sneak-preview/) - Here's a sneak preview (Chapter 1) of Castle Keep: Black and Blue Most nights, when I walk the cobblestone streets of Old Town and wander down the rows of ancient brick houses, which have stood side by side for so long that it's hard to tell where one ends and the next begins, I - [Delmarva Review Volume 15 – Don't Miss This One](https://gourgey.com/2022/11/11/delmarva-review-volume-14-our-best-yet-copy/) - As managing editor, I know I'm biased, but this year's edition of Delmarva Review is especially evocative. You really won't want to miss Volume 15's thought-provoking and entertaining prose and poetry. - [My Apple News Today Interview: Why Don't We Have a Universal Common Cold Vaccine?](https://gourgey.com/2022/11/15/my-apple-news-today-interview-why-dont-we-have-a-universal-common-cold-vaccine/) - Check out my interview with Patricia Yacob from Apple News about why we don't yet have a universal vaccine for the common cold. There probably will be one, eventually, but listen in to find out more (my bit comes in at about the halfway point): Apple News Today - [Blasts from the Past: Popular Science Turns 150](https://gourgey.com/2022/05/05/popsci-turns-150/) - 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 technology (1978), new-old pieces will be published each day with some insight. Check it out! - [Delmarva Review Volume 14 – Our Best Yet](https://gourgey.com/2021/11/04/delmarva-review-volume-14-our-best-yet/) - As Managing Editor of Delmarva Review, I'm thrilled by the exceptional and inspiring prose and poetry we've captured in Volume 14, our largest edition yet. You really won't want to miss these thought-provoking and entertaining stories. - [Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges to Explaining Deep Tech](https://gourgey.com/2021/10/07/making-the-invisible-visible-challenges-to-explaining-deep-tech/) - Please join me and my illustrious Science Writing colleagues tomorrow at 12:30pm EDT for a Science Writers 2021 panel you won't want to miss. Hear directly from Emily Mullin, Anne McGovern, Kenna Castleberry, and Brandie Jefferson how they tackle the challenges of writing about everything from quantum computing and gene therapy to chaos theory and - [Popular Science "The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science"](https://gourgey.com/2021/09/20/popular-science-the-brilliant-10-the-most-innovative-up-and-coming-minds-in-science/) - 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! - [Popular Science "The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine"](https://gourgey.com/2021/05/13/popular-science-the-pandemic-could-be-a-long-awaited-turning-point-for-telemedicine/) - 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: - [Popular Science "Can we make ourselves more empathetic?"](https://gourgey.com/2021/04/06/popular-science-can-we-make-ourselves-more-empathetic/) - 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, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice. - [Checkout My OneZero Article on Aerial Hospitals](https://gourgey.com/2020/03/16/checkout-my-onezero-article-on-aerial-hospitals/) - "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 contagion or crippled by catastrophe has never been greater." How about airship hospitals, an idea first floated 100 years ago? Check out my new article - [When Life Hands You A Quarantine...Go Virtual](https://gourgey.com/2020/03/13/so-many-books-so-little-time-literary-hill-book-fest-2020-2/) - When Life Hands You A Quarantine...Go Virtual: Don't miss the virtual 2020 Literary Hill Book Fest on May 3. https://www.literaryhillbookfest.org - [So Many Books, So Little Time: Literary Hill Book Fest 2020](https://gourgey.com/2020/03/08/so-many-books-so-little-time-literary-hill-book-fest-2020/) - So many books, so little time. Don't miss the 2020 Literary Hill Book Fest on May 3: https://www.literaryhillbookfest.org. Come for the books, stay for the fun! - [Check Out Delmarva Review Volume 12](https://gourgey.com/2019/11/22/check-out-delmarva-review-volume-12/) - As Managing Editor of Delmarva Review, I find our latest collection, Volume 12, to be a powerful reflection of the turbulent times in which we live. Volume 12 offers our most diverse range of new and veteran voices yet. Learn more by visiting our site. - [New Cap City Kids Book Release](https://gourgey.com/2019/02/03/new-cap-city-kids-book-release/) - New Cap City Kids Book Release! When his parents become victims of America’s foreign wars, a talented teen musician runs away to Washington, DC where he uncovers an Oval Office scandal. - [To Write](https://gourgey.com/2019/01/21/to-write/) - An adaptation from Outside the Box To Write by Bill Gourgey What’s it like to really write, to start with almost nothing ? then simply jot a word or two and Presto! something’s coming to tell its tale to you. But even such a brilliant muse so wrapped around your knuckle, won’t deliver punch-packed prose nor - [Check Out Delmarva Review Volume 11](https://gourgey.com/2018/11/01/check-out-delmarva-review-volume-11/) - As Managing Editor of Delmarva Review, I couldn't be more thrilled with our latest, and grandest, publication. Volume 11 offers a diverse range of new and veteran voices. It's a captivating collection of poetry, fiction, and essays from poets and writers all across the United States and abroad. Learn more by visiting our site. - [My WIRED article on AI in Conservation](https://gourgey.com/2018/07/10/my-wired-article-on-ai-in-conservation/) - 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 Disasters - [Don't Miss the 2018 Literary Hill BookFest](https://gourgey.com/2018/04/20/dont-miss-the-2018-literary-hill-bookfest/) - If you're in Washington, DC the first weekend of May, don't miss the Literary Hill BookFest (@theliteraryhill, #LHBF2018) on Sunday, May 6 from 11am to 3pm at Capitol Hill's fabulous Eastern Market! I'll be there with many other local authors. I look forward to seeing you there! - [The Literary Hill's Gifts of Reading](https://gourgey.com/2017/12/11/the-literary-hills-gifts-of-reading/) - A great big Thank You! to Karen Lyon, editor of #The Literary Hill, for including Cap City Kids in her recommended gifts and reads this holiday season. - [The Washingtonian Guest List? What an honor!](https://gourgey.com/2017/11/30/the-washingtonian-guest-list-what-an-honor/) - Don't miss the December issue of the Washingtonian! The staff graciously invited me to their Guest List (p. 20), which featured my latest novel, Court Kasie. Thank you, Washingtonian! What an honor! - [The DREAMer and the Supreme Court](https://gourgey.com/2017/10/21/the-dreamer-and-the-supreme-court/) - Don't miss Court Kasie, the third book in my Cap City Kids mystery-thriller series. A high school intern facing deportation… A plot to bribe a Supreme Court Justice… A case that could ignite a nation? Fifteen-year-old Kasie has always been an exceptionally gifted student. Unfortunately, she’s also an undocumented immigrant. Ever since her parents - [The Virtues of Indie Book Reviews in Publishers Weekly](https://gourgey.com/2017/06/22/the-virtues-of-indie-book-reviews-in-publishers-weekly/) - Are you an indie author? Don't miss Laura Morelli's excellent advice on editorial reviews, especially those that come from Publishers Weekly! I had the privilege to share a panel at BookExpo 2017 with Laura (author of the critically acclaimed The Gondola Maker) hosted by Carl Pritzkat, President of BookLife. Here's Laura's article, published by the - [The Science Behind Forgery](https://gourgey.com/2017/01/01/the-science-behind-forgery/) - WIRED's Elise Craig explains how science can detect even the most artful forgeries in "How Science Uncovered $80 Million of Fine Art Forgeries." Pretty amazing detective work. For more on forgery and fine art, check out my latest novel, Attic Ward. - [The Orphan and the Art Heist](https://gourgey.com/2016/10/21/the-orphan-and-the-art-heist/) - Don't miss the newest Cap City Kids novel, Attic Ward -- a thrilling ride through the world of fine art! A teen artist on the run… A daring heist at the National Gallery… A painting worth the price of freedom? On the run from the state of Virginia, a talented teen artist takes refuge - [Mobile InSecurity](https://gourgey.com/2016/09/05/mobile-insecurity/) - Whether you've read my novel, Capitol Kid, which describes how a young hacker, Boot, fairly easily takes control of Capitol Police mobile phones, you ought to read Nicole Perlroth's NY Times feature article about phone hacking. It's both astounding and demonstrates how insecure most phones (computers, too) really are despite tech company efforts to lock - [The Sound of Gravity](https://gourgey.com/2016/06/15/gravitational-waves-one-step-closer-to-glide/) - How cool that we've finally "heard" gravity! Are we one step closer to realizing Dr. Magigate's seminal invention--Glide, the ability to manipulate gravity (and thereby, time)? Thank you Albert Einstein! (And Dr. Magigate). - [The Future of Sound is Here!](https://gourgey.com/2016/02/19/the-future-of-sound-is-here/) - Augmented Reality Hearing at last Tune out the harsh, tune in the mellow...for real! A new startup, Doppler Labs, is coming out with earbuds that allow you to control the ambient sounds in your environment. With the exception of requiring a smartphone app (and their size), they're just like the Z.Earos earbuds I envisioned (and - [Library Journal accepts Nu Logic and Gene.sys into Self-E Select](https://gourgey.com/2016/01/14/library-journal-accepts-nu-logic-and-gene-sys-into-self-e-select/) - Library Journal recently accepted the rest of my Glide trilogy (Nu Logic and Gene.sys) into it's selective nationwide eBook library program (called SELF-e Select), which makes the entire Glide trilogy available on BiblioBoard at any local library as a "highlighted selection." Yay! Thank you Library Journal! - [Library Journal Accepts GLIDE in SELF-e Select Program](https://gourgey.com/2015/12/15/library-journal-accepts-glide-in-self-e-select-program/) - Library Journal recently accepted Glide into it's selective nationwide eBook library program (called SELF-e Select), which makes it available on BiblioBoard at any local library as a "highlighted selection." Thank you Library Journal! - [Q&A with Publishers Weekly](https://gourgey.com/2015/10/21/qa-with-publishers-weekly/) - Publishers Weekly and their indie author site, Book Life, just published a Q&A with me called: Know Your Budget: Tips from an Indie Author. If you have aspirations to publish your own works, or you simply want to learn more about my own publishing adventures, check it out. Thanks! - [A New Novel - Capitol Kid - Now Available](https://gourgey.com/2015/10/05/a-new-novel-capitol-kid-now-available/) - This fall, I am launching a new YA+ series called Cap City Kids. The stories in my new series feature disadvantaged youth from our nation's capital who find themselves up against revered (or reviled!) public institutions. 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But personal rapid transit never got off the ground. That is, until Silicon Valley stepped in... - [Popular Science: Before the moon race, explorers wanted to conquer the ocean](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-living-under-the-sea/) - In 1916, 12-year-old Edwin Link, Jr., sat in his father’s workshop in Binghamton, New York, and drew a submarine. The detailed sketch echoed Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which transformed how the world imagined the deep via fiction’s most famous submarine, Captain Nemo’s Nautilus. Based on his annotations, 12-year-old Link wanted to design his own Nautilus to serve the U.S. in World War I against mounting German U-boat threats... - [Popular Science: In 1934, Chrysler bet big on teardrop-shaped cars](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-teardrop-cars/) - From the start, cars were built wrong. At least, that’s what Chrysler’s head of automotive research, Carl Breer, thought in 1930. Automobiles had never been built to be aerodynamic, he posited, and he was right. A few years earlier, he’d consulted aviation pioneer Orville Wright, who suggested he build a wind tunnel. The results were damning: Every car Breer tested was more aerodynamic running backward than forward... - [Popular Science: In 1871, cities almost got moving sidewalks. Why are we still waiting?](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-moving-sidewalks/) - In 1872, New York City’s Broadway was a slow-moving snarl of horses, wagons, and pedestrians, all competing along the same well-worn corridor. Alfred Speer, a merchant known around town as “The Wine Man,” believed the congestion outside his Broadway wine shop, across the street from City Hall, was costing him customers. Speer’s solution was not modest: He proposed an elevated sidewalk, running the length of Broadway, moving constantly at 10 miles per hour... To find out what happened next, read on. - [Popular Science: During WWI, a daredevil pilot helped invent the first ‘drones’](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-drones-sperry/) - On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Island’s Great South Bay with his student Dorothy Rice Pierce when his plane suddenly plunged into the water. Sperry later admitted that he’d accidentally bumped the autopilot, a technology he’d recently invented, disengaging it and causing the crash. To find out what happened next, read on... - [Popular Science: In 1916, hybrid cars could’ve changed history. But Ford wouldn’t allow it.](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-hybrid-cars/) - From my Century In Motion column on Pop Sci Henry Ford's monopoly on the automobile industry meant that hybrids wouldn't see the light of day for decades. In October 1914, as gas cars were tightening their grip on America's roads, Frank W. Smith, president of the Electric Vehicle Association of America, stood before a - [Popular Science: The strange Wild West tale of the first cow-buffalo hybrid](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-cattalo/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci Inside cowboy Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones's get-rich-quick scheme to restore the plains 100 years ago. By the mid-1880s, the Great Plains had a ghostly aura. Just a decade earlier the grasslands teemed with buffalo, but when railroads like Santa Fe and - [Popular Science: How the Witch of November doomed the 'Edmund Fitzgerald'](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-edmund-fitzgerald/) - Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior. On the afternoon of November 9, 1975, when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald set out on its 746-mile run from Superior, Wisconsin, to Detroit, Michigan, Lake Superior was mostly calm. Even so, the crew likely saw the red sky from - [Popular Science: In 1925, seven students went 60 hours without sleep—for science](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-sleepless-study/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci Scientists were out to prove sleep was just a waste of time. The grueling Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT, was first devised in the 1920s by George Washington University professor Frederick August Moss. Originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test for - [Popular Science: How a hatter and railroad clerk kickstarted cancer research](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-cancer-research/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci 100 years ago, this unlikely duo discovered the first cancer 'germ.' In 1925, The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, published a blockbuster finding so significant that its editors offered a rare prelude: "The two communications which follow mark an - [Popular Science: 100 years ago, ‘ghost ship’ sails baffled Einstein—now they’re making a comeback](https://gourgey.com/book/popsci-rotor-sails/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci Could a high school math teacher's 1920s invention make shipping greener? On the rough and icy waters of the North Sea in 1925, an unusual vessel plowed its way from Danzig, Poland, to Leith, Scotland, marking a first in maritime history. This maiden voyage was - [Popular Science: 100 years ago, scientists thought we’d be eating food made from air](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-food-from-air/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci 100 years later, we've almost figured out how. In the early 1920s, on the left bank of the Seine just outside Paris, a small laboratory garden bloomed on a plot of land sandwiched between the soaring Paris Observatory and the sprawling - [Popular Science: 100 years ago, scientists predicted we'd live to 1,000 years old](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-living-to-1000-1925/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci In 1925, the average American lifespan was 58 years. When Frederick Grant Banting discovered how to isolate insulin from animals in 1921, the young Canadian doctor-a WWI veteran and former farm boy-changed the calculus of diabetes forever. Prior to the 1920s, the disease - [Popular Science: A century ago, suspended monorails were serious mass-transit contenders](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-suspended-monorail-1925/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci And they could be making a comeback. If you've ever sped through the air on a suspended monorail, chances are you were in an amusement park, taking in views festooned with rides, animals, and manicured grounds. But it's more likely that - [Popular Science: 100 years ago, the battle for television raged](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-battle-tv-1925/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci How fire and rivalry shaped broadcasting's debut. Television's broadcast debut in 1936 unfolded like a plot made for the medium itself-complete with bitter competition, intrigue, celebration, and devastating setbacks. The story reached its climax when a fire at London's Crystal Palace destroyed parts - [Popular Science: Why we can't squash the common cold, even after 100 years of studying it](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-common-cold-1925/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci The best advice for avoiding a cold in 2025 isn't all that different from 1925. Before germs were first spied under a microscope by Robert Koch, a doctor from East Prussia, catching colds was blamed on evil spirits, foul weather, and - [Popular Science: 100 years of deep-sea filmmaking and ocean exploration](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-deepsea-filmmaking/) - From my What a Difference a Century Makes-or Not column on Pop Sci In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. - [Popular Science: Valentine’s Day 1946—The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-eniac/) - From my Archives column on Pop Sci The ENIAC was a 30-ton 'numerical monster'-and pivotal in the history of consumer technology. Humanity's love affair with technology stretches back more than two million years, kickstarted by the stone tool industry. Without necessarily calling it a love affair, many 20th century philosophers-from Lewis Mumford (Technics and - [Popular Science: In 1928, Eric the Robot promised the robo-butler of the future](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-eric-robot/) - From my Archives column on Pop Sci 'The mechanical man ... will rid humanity of much drudgery and thousands of congenial tasks.' "Ladies and gentleman," said the unlikely host, spitting blue sparks as he rose to his feet before a stunned audience. "Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, it gives me great pleasure," - [Popular Science: December 17, 1903 – The Wright brothers take flight, drama ensues](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-wright-brothers/) - From my Anniversary collection on Pop Sci The fight over 'First in Flight.' Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn't always so. December 17, 1903 - The Wright brothers take - [Popular Science: November 2, 2000: The first residents move into the International Space Station](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-iss/) - From my Anniversary collection on Pop Sci 'This is the first example of how we're going to build things in space.' The International Space Station, or ISS-our largest home away from home-has been continuously occupied since November 2, 2000. That month Popular Science published an interview conducted by Science Editor, Dawn Stover, with two of the ISS's three - [Popular Science: The uber-optimistic history and prolonged future of space tourism](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-space-tourism/) - From my Are We There Yet? column on Pop Sci Popular Science predicted luxury space vacations by 2007. We got ahead of ourselves. Tired of the same old vacation getaway? Looking for something out of this world? Book a weekend stay at a LEO Island resort. All our Low Earth Orbit hotels are a - [Popular Science: In 1928, the discovery of ‘mold juice’ would go on to save 500 million lives](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-mold-juice/) - From my Anniversary collection on Pop Sci But not until 1943 would 'Popular Science' finally celebrate the discovery of penicillin. Although penicillin was discovered on September 28, 1928 by Andrew Fleming, a British physician and professor of bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London, it took fourteen years for the first civilian patient to receive - [Popular Science: The fascinating, rocky history of the ubiquitous Xerox](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-xerox/) - From my Anniversary collection on Pop Sci On October 22, 1938, the first xerograph was born. When a technology company's name enters the lexicon as a verb, they know they've made it-big. "To google" means to search for information online; "to zoom" refers to video conferencing; to "skype" means to make a video call. But - [MIT Technology Review: Green Revolution Redux](https://gourgey.com/book/mit-tech-review-green-revolution/) - Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? By the 1990s, the yields of wheat and rice had doubled worldwide, staving off bouts of recurring famine. The Green Revolution was so successful that dire predictions of worse famine to come-fueled by alarming population growth-no longer seemed likely. But the Green Revolution had its limits... Read the - [Popular Science: In 1929 the Graf Zeppelin becomes the first ship to sail around the world—by air](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-graf-zeppelin/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci On August 29, 1929, it became the first human-made craft to circumnavigate the globe by air, using Lakehurst, NJ as the port where its American journey began and ended. After completing the first ever transatlantic airship flight in October 1928, the majestic Graf Zeppelin, a 776-foot gleaming dirigible, was - [MIT Technology Review: Will computers ever feel responsible?](https://gourgey.com/book/mit-tech-review-125-ai/) - Machines may never acquire humans' innate know-how. Bold technology predictions pave the road to humility. Even titans like Albert Einstein own a billboard or two along that humbling freeway. In a classic example, John von Neumann, who pioneered modern computer architecture, wrote in 1949, "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what - [Popular Science: On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-www/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci The post that went 'round the world-and how Popular Science responded...eventually. On August 6, 1991, in a little-known newsgroup-an early-days, primitive version of an internet forum-called alt.hypertext, a soon-to-be-famous computer scientist posted something that would change the technology landscape-and the world-as we knew it... On August 6, 1991, - [Popular Science: 100 years of aliens—From Mars beavers to little gray men](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-aliens-100/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci How our visions of extraterrestrials have evolved. A century ago, in May 1924, Popular Science covered one of the earliest attempts to scale Mount Everest. When the story hit magazine stands in 1924, the outcome of the much-anticipated expedition was still unknown. But the team of British explorers was - [Popular Science: How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-plant-hunters/) - From my Are We There Yet? column on Pop Sci A long time ago, plant hunters 'discovered' 'new' species. Now they're digging into novel chemistry. CHIEF AMONG THE many wonders encountered by Renaissance explorers were the novel plants never before seen in Europe. In Spanish geographer Martín Fernández de Enciso's 1519 account of his - [Popular Science: The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-artificial-eye/) - From my Are We There Yet? column on Pop Sci How the process of making prosthetic eyes has-and hasn't-changed in nearly a century. From tar, animal fat, and gold wires to painted polymethyl methacrylate, or Plexiglas, the nearly 5,000-year journey to perfect prosthetic eyes has been an odyssey through the periodic table. It has also been an - [Popular Science: How to make a walkie talkie for your dog](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-walkie-talkie-dog/) - Popular Science lauded such an effort in 1939. Today is a whole different story. BEFORE DUG THE DOG-the lovable talking canine from Disney's 2009 blockbuster animation Up-there was Zoe, the Alsatian police dog. While Dug's goofy gaffes and brainwave-reading, voice-box collar endeared him to audiences, Zoe's ability to follow her master's commands from afar-performing tricks - [MIT Technology Review: Toys can change your life](https://gourgey.com/book/mit-tech-review-toys/) - What if your favorite childhood toys like balls, Frisbees, and jacks could predict the future? In a November 1984 story for Technology Review, Carolyn Sumners, curator of astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, described how toys, games, and even amusement park rides could change how young minds view science and math. "The Slinky," Sumners noted, "has - [Popular Science: How to make a coffee can camera—in 1961 and today](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-coffee-can-camera/) - Since Popular Science published the project, photography has come a long way (for better or for worse). AT ABOUT THE time when coffee gained ground across the Near East in the 16th century-giving rise to coffee houses which quickly became important cultural centers-optical inventions like the compound microscope and telescope were also making their debut. Among these, the camera - [Popular Science: Carl Sagan in 1986: "Voyager has become a new kind of intelligent being..."](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-sagan-voyager/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci The renowned scientist reflected on the lesser-known triumphs and lofty ambitions of Voyager in Popular Science's October 1986 issue. One of the worries that kept legendary astronomer Carl Sagan up at night was whether aliens would understand us. In the mid-1970s, Sagan led a committee formed by - [Popular Science: May 1924—George Mallory’s tragic quest to conquer Everest](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-everest-mallory/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci 'Will they succeed? They will if they can conquer nature.' A century ago, in May 1924, Popular Science covered one of the earliest attempts to scale Mount Everest. When the story hit magazine stands in 1924, the outcome of the much-anticipated expedition was still unknown. But the team of - [Popular Science: Humanity’s never-ending quest to control the weather](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-cloud-control/) - Cloud Control: For over a century, we’ve turned to technology in an attempt to control the weather. Are today’s geoengineering proposals any better? - [MIT Technology Review: What tech learned from Daedalus](https://gourgey.com/book/mit-tech-review-daedalus/) - Read about the Daedalus project: The dream of human-powered flight was the stuff of myth for thousands of years. Until 1988. - [Popular Science: When surgery was a public spectacle](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-surgery-theater/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci Operating theater is dead. Or is it? Set aside all the demanding years of medical school and residency-the grueling shifts, endless exams, and mountains of debt-to be a surgeon requires unique personality traits. Chief among them is "extraversion," according to a 2022 report published in The Surgeon, a medical journal... - [Popular Science: In 1919, one eclipse chaser wanted to mount a telescope on a seaplane](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-eclipse-chaser/) - From my Archive collection on Pop Sci Even a century ago, astronomers went to great lengths not be foiled by clouds. "What can the astronomer do, when, just as the moon is about to obscure the sun during a total eclipse, a cloud intervenes?" Popular Science posed such a dilemma to its readers in a 1919 - [Muse Magazine: Science@Work, Interview with Mark Vande Hei](https://gourgey.com/book/muse-vande-hei/) - I had the privilege of interviewing accomplished astronaut, Mark Vande Hei, six months after his return to Earth from nearly a year on the International Space Station (ISS), an American record. Here's a snippet: THERE ARE SOME FUTURISTS-PEOPLE WHO PROJECT TODAY'S TRENDS INTO THE FUTURE-WHO CLAIM THAT THE ONLY WAY HUMAN CIVILIZATION WILL SURVIVE FOR - [Popular Science: The decades-long quest for lab-grown organs](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-lab-grown-organs/) - From my Are We There Yet? column on Pop Sci After more than half a century, researchers are still trying to figure out how to engineer individualized organs in a lab. Decades before the first "test tube babies," there were "biological cradles." In fact, artificial wombs, which may soon be entering human trials for high-risk - [MIT Technology Review: Journey to the Eclipse](https://gourgey.com/book/mit-tech-review-eclipse/) - 125 years ago, MIT Technology Review documented a total solar eclipse; it's happening again in 2024. In 1900, the recently completed Hotel Fitzpatrick in Washington, Georgia, stood out for its grand Queen Anne architecture, but even more for its technology-it offered electricity, an elevator, and a telephone. When Alfred E. Burton, MIT's first dean (1902-1921), - [Muse Magazine: Robot Reflections](https://gourgey.com/book/muse-robot-reflections/) - Muse's February 2024 issue explores robots and robotics from chatbots to future robot bill of rights. But did you know that robots-what they look like, how they behave, what do-reflect who we are culturally and socially. Johns Hopkins University robotics historian, Yulia Frumer, describes how such reflections manifest in the robots we design, including our - [Popular Science: Why don’t we use more driving simulators to teach teenage drivers?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-driving-simulators/) - From my Are We There Yet? column on Pop Sci These simulators popped up in the 1950s, but there's a reason you won't see them in accredited driving schools today. IN 1953, dozens of teens at Brooklyn High School for Automotive Trades took one of the first-ever realistic driving simulators out for a spin. The Drivotrainer was - [Muse Magazine: When a Volcano Screams](https://gourgey.com/book/muse-volcano-screams/) - Muse's October 2023 issue delves into volcanoes and our planet's hot core. From the daring life of volcano hunters, who went so far as to lower themselves into the steaming vents of unstable volcanoes to study them, to satellites, drones, and unmanned submersibles, volcanology has come a long way in the past century. But did - [Popular Science: How to use 3D glasses from 1954 today](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-3d-glasses/) - This old-school idea on how to repurpose 3D viewers shows us how much-and how little-the technology has changed. WHEN THE HOLOGRAM of Princess Leia, projected by the little droid R2-D2, appeared in the first Star Wars movie in 1977, the hopes and dreams of 3D-viewing enthusiasts likely soared. Even though the hologram was fictional, it - [Popular Science: This gadget from 1930 let people ‘talk’ to the dead—with a magic trick](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-spiritphone/) - How a Popular Science tutorial for building a 'spiritphone' tuned into the hype of the Golden Age of Magic. MAGIC FIRST TOOK SHAPE from the occult-from unseen forces once more popularly believed to flow from the spirit world to alter the course of mortal events. Throughout history, magicians were seen as aloof figures mysteriously granted secret knowledge... Join PopSci+ - [Muse Magazine: Unveiling the Secrets of the Seafloor](https://gourgey.com/book/muse-seafloor-secrets/) - Muse's summer issue spotlights the ocean, covering the past, present, and future of a mysterious, miraculous, often alien world that's right here on planet Earth. Even in 2023, we have higher resolution and more comprehensive surface images of the Moon and Mars than of Earth's own surface, 70 percent of which lies beneath a watery - [Popular Science: An electric cow, a robot mailman, and other automatons we overestimated](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-robot-fails/) - Popular Science: An electric cow, a robot mailman, and other automatons we overestimated, by Bill Gourgey - [Popular Science: A 1967 foot-powered tool you could build today—if you wanted to](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-pedal-power/) - This vintage Popular Science tutorial invokes spinning wheels and DIY guitar pedals. FROM ANCIENT treadwheel cranes to modern guitar effects pedals, the creative energy of our feet has come a long way. Roman aqueducts, medieval castles, and Gothic cathedrals were raised, mega-stone by mega-stone, by machines powered by human-size hamster wheels... Join PopSci+ for access to select content including Pop Sci's - [WIRED: How AI Can Help Prevent Natural Disasters](https://gourgey.com/book/wired-article-how-ai-can-help-prevent-natural-disasters/) - We read and hear about both the miraculous and nefarious ways that Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts our lives. But it just may be the hidden, mundane ways it's making its mark that impacts us most. If you want to learn more about how AI is reshaping the conservation landscape, please check out my article published - [OneZero: It's Time to Resurrect the Airship Hospitals](https://gourgey.com/book/onezero-article-its-time-to-resurrect-the-airship-hospitals/) - The coronavirus pandemic has made clear that we need new strategies to contain contagious illnesses and respond to natural disasters and the fallout from war. As advanced as our medicine and communications have become, the infrastructure we apply to address these outbreaks remains stubbornly rudimentary — from building makeshift structures to buying motels and everything - [Popular Science: Can we make ourselves more empathetic?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-can-we-make-ourselves-more-empathetic/) - 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, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice. Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still - [Popular Science: Music for the Menagerie](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-music-for-the-menagerie/) - In July 1921, Popular Science covered a demonstration that sought to determine the effect of jazz (then "jungle music") on animals in the Central Park Menagerie (now Zoo). Through the burgeoning field of zoo musicology, we've learned quite a bit over the last century about music's effect on animals. Check out the full story in Popular - [Popular Science: The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-the-pandemic-could-be-a-long-awaited-turning-point-for-telemedicine/) - 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: The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine Many thanks to Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science's Editor in Chief. - [Popular Science: Harnessing the Sun](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-harnessing-the-sun/) - Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry, published a story in November 1929 in Popular Science that described his improvements to solar-thermal power, claiming that the tech would soon generate enough electricity for everyone. Unfortunately, coal got in the way. Check out the full story in Popular Science's Summer Edition, Heat. Harnessing the Sun Many thanks to Corinne - [Popular Science: The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science](https://gourgey.com/book/the-brilliant-10-the-most-innovative-up-and-coming-minds-in-science/) - These US-based engineers, psychologists, chemists, and more are taking on society's biggest challenges across the world. The Brilliant 10 Many thanks to Rachel Feltman, Popular Science's Executive Editor. - [Popular Science: Riding the Wind](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-riding-the-wind/) - During the Golden Age of Carousels, around the turn of the last century, Popular Science published a story in April 1919 that offered instructions for readers to build their own wind-powered merry-go-round, so popular were the rides. At the time, less than half of American homes had access to electricity. More than a century later, - [Popular Science: Hold the Ice](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-hold-the-ice/) - It was nearly a century ago that frozen food as we know it today got its debut, pioneered by Charles Birdseye, a biologist. Popular Science covered the debut in September 1930. Check out my full story in Popular Science's Winter Edition, Let's Eat. Hold the Ice Many thanks to Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science's Editor in Chief. - [Popular Science: The rise of the rodents](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-hold-the-ice-copy/) - Many of today's lab rats can trace their lineage to the Jazz Age. In May 1927, Popular Science reports that breeding rats and mice for science was so popular it had become a thriving American industry. Check out this archive reprint in Popular Science's Spring Edition, Messy. The rise of the rodents Many thanks to - [Popular Science: 150th Anniversary Series](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-150th-library/) - 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 technology (1978), new-old pieces will be published each day with context and my commentary. Check it out. Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing - [Popular Science: The resurgence of open public streets is a centuries-old idea](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-open-public-streets/) - Nearly a century ago, a skyscraper architect designed a future city that transformed streets into outdoor gathering spaces. That idea is making a comeback: The resurgence of open public streets is a centuries-old idea Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Science Editor. - [Popular Science: What it would take for cars to actually fly](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-flying-cars/) - Since the 1800s, inventors have struggled to design a hybrid craft that could traverse both earth and sky-but flying cars might soon get a new lift: What it would take for cars to actually fly Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Science Editor. - [Popular Science: Radium was once cast as an elixir of youth. Are today’s ideas any better?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-radium-youth/) - In 1923, Popular Science reported that people were drinking radium-infused water in an attempt to stay young. How far have we come to a real (and non-radioactive) 'cure' for aging?: Radium was once cast as an elixir of youth. Are today's ideas any better? Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor. - [Popular Science: Will baseball ever replace umpires with robots?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-robo-umps/) - In 1939, Popular Science offered a round robin of new sports inventions, including "electric umpires" for baseball. The sport has long experimented with robotic umpires to take the guesswork out of calls. Has it's time finally come? Will baseball ever replace umpires with robots? Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: Why hasn't Henry Ford's ideal power grid become a reality?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-henry-ford-power-grid/) - The industrialist's dream of agricultural-industrial micro-grids did not turn out the way he imagined, but it's a vision worth revisiting: Why hasn't Henry Ford's ideal power grid become a reality? Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor. - [Popular Science: The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-hovercraft/) - These wheelless cars were all the rage of 1950s and '60s automotive design-and they might be making a comeback: The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: When will we finally have jetpacks?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-jetpacks/) - Jetpack designers today are learning from decades of trial and error: When will we finally have jetpacks? Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: How (Not) To Build Your Own Scuba Gear](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-scuba-gear/) - A 1953 tutorial for building your own underwater breathing apparatus wouldn't be very practical today, but it sure was optimistic. Check out the Fall 2022 edition of Popular Science, Daredevil. How (Not) To Build Your Own Scuba Gear Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor. - [Popular Science: The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor's hidden secrets](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-seafloor/) - Ocean explorers have long tried to survey the contours of the seafloor, but today's charts still pale in comparison to those of distant planets: The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor's hidden secrets Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: Is it finally time for a permanent base on the moon?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-moonbase/) - The upcoming Artemis mission is NASA's initial step to create a lunar outpost-but are we really ready to establish long-term bases beyond Earth? Is it finally time for a permanent base on the moon? Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: High-speed rail trains are stalled in the US—and that might not change for a while](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-highspeed-rails/) - The US has more miles of railroad tracks than anywhere in the world, but establishing high-speed trains has been slow going. High-speed rail trains are stalled in the US-and that might not change for a while Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: Could quantum physics unlock teleportation?](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-teleportation/) - Physicists are making leaps in quantum teleportation, but it's still a long ways from 'Star Trek.' Could quantum physics unlock teleportation? Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: Why we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-common-cold/) - For decades, scientists have been on the hunt for a universal common cold vaccine-and they're still searching. Why we still don't have a vaccine for the common cold Many thanks to Lauren Young, Popular Science Associate Editor. - [Popular Science: Trap Cosmic Rays in a Jar](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-trap-cosmic-rays/) - Wait! Before you recycle that peanut butter container, consider making a cloud chamber. Check out the Winter 2022 edition of Popular Science, High. Trap Cosmic Rays in a Jar Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor. - [Popular Science: A DIY voice assistant from 1950 could mute a radio and control toy trains](https://gourgey.com/book/popular-science-trap-cosmic-rays-copy/) - The ambitious Popular Science tutorial required the use of a soldering iron. LONG BEFORE SIRI, there was Audrey. But even before Audrey, there was the blueprint for the name- challenged Voice-trol. Join PopSci+ for access to select content including Pop Sci's quarterly digital editions. A DIY voice assistant from 1950... Many thanks to Marina Galperina, - [Castle Keep](https://gourgey.com/book/castle-keep/) - A teen musician who’s lost everything. A ruthless billionaire who blackmails politicians. A showdown aimed at the Oval Office. Sixteen-year-old Moe lives for jazz. A talented musician, gifted mathematician, and crack coder, Moe divides his spare time between his jazz band, his cyber friends, and tinkering with his homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) application that he’s - [Court Kasie](https://gourgey.com/book/court-kasie-2/) - A high school intern facing deportation… A plot to bribe a Supreme Court Justice… A case that could ignite a nation? Fifteen-year-old Kasie has always been an exceptionally gifted student. Unfortunately, she’s also an undocumented immigrant. Ever since her parents were deported during a politically motivated ICE sweep, she’s been living with her friend’s family, - [Attic Ward](https://gourgey.com/book/attic-ward/) - A teen artist on the run… A daring heist at the National Gallery… A painting worth the price of freedom? On the run from the state of Virginia, a talented teen artist takes refuge in the Smithsonian Castle and uncovers a plot to steal one of the nation’s most prized works of art. Can an - [Capitol Kid](https://gourgey.com/book/capitol-kid/) - A homeless teen with nothing to lose… A corrupt politician with everything to lose… What could possibly go wrong? On the run from local drug dealers, a young hacker hides out in the U.S. Capitol and soon finds himself entangled in a dastardly political conspiracy. From the shadows of the U.S. Capitol, can a runaway change his - [GRAVITY & FIRE](https://gourgey.com/book/gravity-and-fire/) - From silicon germs to digitized souls, the future is here… Read the first book of the Beverly Hills Book Award Winning Glide Trilogy, a mesmerizing tale of love, loss, and second chances. Set in a future filled with dazzling and perilous inventions, the trilogy has been read more than 6,000,000 times on Wattpad, received a - [GAMES & FATE](https://gourgey.com/book/games-and-fate/) - From silicon germs to digitized souls, the future is here… Read book two of the Beverly Hills Book Award Winning Glide Trilogy, a mesmerizing tale of love, loss, and second chances. Set in a future filled with dazzling and perilous inventions, the trilogy has been read more than 6,000,000 times on Wattpad, received a starred - [GERMS & FURY](https://gourgey.com/book/germs-and-fury/) - From silicon germs to digitized souls, the future is here… Read the final book of the Beverly Hills Book Award Winning Glide Trilogy, a mesmerizing tale of love, loss, and second chances. Set in a future filled with dazzling and perilous inventions, the trilogy has been read more than 6,000,000 times on Wattpad, received a - [Unfamiliar Fruit, Volume I](https://gourgey.com/book/unfamiliar-fruit-volume-i/) - "I loved this book! Each story was compelling and I found myself thinking about the characters well after I finished reading the stories." -Amazon.com reviewer “It spoke to me. The three stories make you consider family dynamics in a new way and put yourself in the place of others.” -Amazon.com reviewer - [Outside the Box, Poems](https://gourgey.com/book/outside-the-box-poems/) - This wide-ranging collection of poems opens with an ode to Eros that challenges our most fundamental impulse: “funny/how we/evolved to/feel like gods/just when we make/men.” And it ends with a eulogy to a not-too-distant-future planet earth that has endured more of humankind than it can bear: “existential pantheons/echo now with folly’s stony silence.” Part meditation on ## Events - [#DeepTechReporting - Science Writers 2021](https://gourgey.com/event/deeptechreporting-science-writers-2021/) - Please join me and my colleagues for a thought-provoking panel on deep tech reporting at this year's Science Writers Conference, NASW's annual event. Here's the writeup: Although all scientific fields suffer communication challenges, some offer writers natural lifelines. 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