by Terri Willingham | Jul 21, 2014 | Creativity, Makers, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
There’s a very interesting dialectic between science and science fiction. If you take a look at, for example, Edwin Hubble, the greatest astronomer of the 20th century, he was destined to be a Missouri country lawyer. He remembered reading Jules Verne as a...
by Terri Willingham | Jul 10, 2014 | civic engagement, Creativity, knowledge, Life, science, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
I want to know that it’s real, that it’s not just something happening inside my own head, because it matters what’s true… Neil DeGrasse Tyson In a recent opinion piece titled, “Rhapsody in Realism,” New York Times columnist David...
by Terri Willingham | Jun 9, 2014 | knowledge, Life, Makerspaces, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
Children are born scientists. They are always turning over rocks and plucking petals off flowers. They are always doing stuff that, by and large, is destructive. That’s what exploration really is when you think about it. An adult scientist is a kid who never grew up....
by Terri Willingham | Apr 24, 2014 | compassion, knowledge, Life, science, Uncategorized
We are in St. Louis this week, immersed in the wildly costumed, metal mashing, techno rock drenched thrumming of the FIRST Championship, where over 12,000 youth from around the world have convened to compete in what is essentially the World Cup of geekiness –...
by Terri Willingham | Mar 27, 2014 | compassion, Life, Philosophy, science, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
A new book, Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why it Pays to Get Along, by Stefan Klein, is revisiting the idea of “survival of the fittest,” and just what that might really mean in terms of human social interaction. Reviewed in the...
by Terri Willingham | Mar 26, 2014 | knowledge, paradigm shifts, Philosophy, science, Society, Steven Willingham, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
As with all great journeys, there are more questions now than answers, not the least of which is, where shall we go from here? As that remains to be answered, all we can do now is keep living life to its fullest. – Andrea Willingham, our daughter Life is a work...
