Karen A. Frenkel

Blogs for TalkingScience.org

Scientific American MIND How Do Neurons Communicate?
The answer is surprisingly elusive and the subject of intense debate.

Scientific American Silicon Smackdown
A New Algorithim Could Soon Vanquish Go Pros

Scientific American MIND News: Tinkering With Our Clock
A gene that controls human sleep habits can transform the rodents into "early birds"

Scientific American MIND News: Your Brain on Toxins
A review of the literature shows that developing brains are vulnerable to a host of poisons.

Medical Spare Parts
NYSE Magazine

Catching the Customer
How online merchants gain buyers' trust

Battling CyberFraud
Jewerly Etailers and Customer Trust

Computers in Court
Technology Review

Women and Computing
Communications of the ACM

Profiles and Interviews with Computer Scientists

The Village Voice Unwelcome Science
New York's Newest Science Magnet School and its Pioneering Principal, Jose Maldonado-Rivera

The Village Voice Your Brain on 9/11
Three neurological studies reveal that traumatic memories of those near the site and bereaved children affect functioning of parts of their brains.

Feature: The New York Times and International Herald Tribune Portals Struggle to Turn Virtual Shoppers Into Real Buyers
Why online shoppers abandon their shopping carts.

CyberTimes Toy Story: Origin of a Species
The making of the first fully computer-generated cartoon feature film.

Womens eNews Mentor Programs Help Girls Engineer Their Futures
Women continue to lag behind men in engineering, but mentorship programs help attract girls.

Robots: Machines In Man's Image (Contents, Excerpt, Review)
Robots in myth, sci-fi, and factories

Scientific American Book Review/Essay: Why Aren't More Women Physicists?
Two books look for answers in the lives of a few who succeeded.

Scientific American MIND Play = Learning
Cognitive scientists describe decades of research on play by which children learn. The authors claim that No Child Left Behind over-emphasizes test scores, and ignores data on how kids learn best.

Looking at Light
Fourth graders explore what makes rainbows, why there are colors, why lights add up to white and paints add up to black.

Listening to Sound
Fourth graders learn about sound waves, echoes, and music.

Light and Sound Technology
How we capture light and sound so that we can see and hear them any time we want.

net.LEARNING
The Pros and Cons of Learning Online

Minerva's Machine: Women and Computing
How women overcome barriers in school and the industry

Oral history Interviews with Geneva Overholser
Three two audio sessions and one videotaped session with the former editor of the DeMoines Register.