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Is literacy in danger because of technology? Will students stop reading and writing all together because they spend lots of time on the computer? I have talked to some parents who legitimately worry about their children slipping away from...
POSTED Friday, December 18, 2009

We left the UN with a sense of wonder at the realization that we had been part of something truly special. We left with the idea that maybe we could do something to start changing the world. But we...
POSTED Thursday, October 8, 2009

We, all of us, have the responsibility to buy the extra time, which will maybe ensure our survival as a civilization. And I have been wondering what we can do about it. The human species with its genius and...
POSTED Thursday, October 1, 2009

At the World Science Festival in June, Mary McDonnell said, with visible emotion, “I no longer suffer from the illusion that we have a lot of time. On a spiritual and political plane, I’d like to be of better...
POSTED Thursday, September 24, 2009

I have recently begun working with the good folks at the Sci-Fi channel and last Thursday, the 11th, I had the extraordinary opportunity to live tweet a special event at the Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Topic: the role...
POSTED Friday, June 19, 2009

If you aren’t already following Visions for Tomorrow on Twitter, then hit us up! We’ll be tweeting live from yet another Battlestar Galactica panel with cast members from the show. The topic this time? The science, ethics and philosophy...
POSTED Friday, June 12, 2009

Want to chat about the impact of Battlestar Galactica outside of the TV screen? The Sci Fi Channel and the United Nations Department of Public Information partnered up in March to talk about just that, covering topics ranging from...
POSTED Wednesday, June 3, 2009

As a Poli Sci major at the University of Redands, I often considered a career in the field of diplomacy and international relations. To that extent, the U.N. was always the Holy Grail, in terms of places it would...
POSTED Friday, May 1, 2009

On March 17th, the delegate country names lining the rows of seats in the main “theater” of the United Nations were replaced with the names of the colonies that were home to the crew of Battlestar Galactica. Whoopie Goldberg...
POSTED Thursday, April 30, 2009

I wrote the following as part of an oped directed at the media industry. My profound belief is that we need to give people sense of vision and possibility. They no longer can imagine what a better future might...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008

When trying to save the world, it helps to put things into a larger perspective by thinking about civilizations that may have already confronted these problems. In particular, astrophysicists, when we try to find evidence for life in outer...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008