Authors can bring both fiction and non-fiction books to life for young people. Every year, schools around the world invite authors and illustrators...
Category - Careers in STEM/STEAM
How do people know and perceive weather? Who gets to disseminate and output weather information? Stemming from my exploration of local weather in...
AGROspeak: Farmers and the Enviromation in Kampala by Anjuli Sethi
What does understanding culture and communicating across cultures have to do with STEAM, especially with Design and Technology? In this post, Anjuli...
James Tanton (Part 1 of 2): The Mathematician He Never Knew
James Tanton wears multiple mathematical hats. He is an ambassador for the Mathematical Association of America (currently serving as their...
Monsoons and Teaspoons by Anjuli Sethi
Chatting with a Myanmar farmer over some traditional green tea I arrived in Yangon at the very beginning of the monsoon season. It was dark...
Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design
The first major retrospective of Ove Arup (1895-1988), the most influential engineer of the 20th century is running at the Victoria and Albert Museum...
Chef Kent Rathbun and Systems Thinking (Part II)
This is Part II of a post based upon a conversation with Kent about his experience and perspectives on food, kitchens, his restaurants, and more...
Chef Kent Rathbun and Systems Thinking in the Kitchen (Part I)
Happy Fourth! Reposting about the conversation I had with the amazing chef, Kent Rathbun last year. Delicious and inspiring – read on!! I had...
Seeing Math through Mime by Tanya & Tim Chartier
Mathematics lives largely in an unseen world. Mathematicians see the relationships of such entities without physical interaction. In his book, The...
Entrepreneurs and STEM: an Ayurvedic Skin Line, Skinveda
I had the chance to chat with Shilpi Jain, chemist and entrepreneur, who has launched an ayurvedic skincare line very recently, right here in...