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Rita J. King, Science House EVP for Business Development (and Futurist at NASA Langley’s think tank, the National Institute for Aerospace) appears on “Robot Wars,” the most recent episode of Faultlines, Al Jazeera‘s documentary series focusing on behind-the-scenes issues of our time hosted by investigative journalist Josh Rushing. King appears along with PW Singer, author of “Wired for [...]

By Rita J. King with Joshua Fouts “We are the children who have survived,” Ana Carolina says as the swings creak back and forth. Tuesday, November 8: After a red-eye from New York and a 2.5 hour ride from São Paulo to Campinas, Brazil, Joshua and I don’t have a chance to wash our faces [...]

Science House Capital recently supported the MicroInternship of a group of students of George Haines the founder of the MicroIntern program and Director of Technology at Sts. Philip and James School. You can reach him on Twitter: @George_Haines. George submitted this guest blogpost about the MicroInterns recent trip to NYC’s entrepreneurship How many middle-schoolers do [...]

Your mission: Step back in time, location, and scale to investigate what is otherwise impossible or too dangerous to experience. The American Museum of Natural History‘s world-renowned fossil collections and exhibitions hold the key to understanding prehistoric worlds. In this unique institute, students will collaboratively resurrect three prehistoric creatures by designing realistic computer models and [...]

The first annual Robot Film Festival by Heather Knight was a fantastic mix of humans, cyborgs and robots. New Scientist has a great write up of the event, which was sponsored by Science House (we have a special fondness for robots here–check out Science House Foundation’s Terrabotic program). We walked the red carpet to attend the first ever Botskers award [...]

by Rita J King with images by James Jorasch. Science House EVP for Business Development Rita J. King with Executive Director of Science House Foundation, Joshua S. Fouts at “Facts and Fiction: Discussing Science in Imaginary Worlds” hosted by Science House and the Hybrid Reality Institute. “As a kid I was bothered by the economics [...]

For over a decade, Alda has hosted Scientific American Frontiers. After interviewing over 700 scientists, he rejects the myth of the lone mad scientist in a lab coat. Scientists want to communicate their passion and work with the public, he contends–but they need to learn how.

Executive Director of Science House Foundation Joshua Fouts, with David Kanter and George Haines. by Rita J King “Tomorrow is the Rapture and I can’t think of a place I’d rather be,” said Ted Scovell, director of Science Outreach at Rockefeller University, who works with Science House to collaboratively curate a series of science education [...]

Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind, and Science House Director of Operations Megan Kingery. Everybody knows about Einstein, Darwin and Newton, but the father of neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, has never had his due. His ardent admirer Carl Schoonover hopes to change that. “My book is an ode to Cajal,” said Schoonover [...]

Marianne O’Grady credits her aplomb during glancing encounters with the Taliban to having grown up with thirteen brothers. She recently gave an intimate talk at Science House to share her experiences as an American science educator in Afghanistan. O’Grady didn’t just show up in an unfamiliar new country with a temporary approach. People can feel the [...]