Becky’s Saturday at SXSW
Becky gives a short synopsis of a fast, and incredible day at SXSW
Carl Clark
BIG Health Data & HIPAA
When trying to understand the many different view points on Health data being at a place like SXSW is very helpful. The panel Why HIPAA Won’t Save You covered a verity of topics ranging from the patients, the health care companies to the scientific researchers who will use this data. How to keep everyone’s health […]
Physics Education in Gaming
The Kerbal Space Academy uses the game Kerbal Space Program and Twitch TV to inspire creativity and give a basic knowledge of physics. Their goal is to encourage the gaming community to be curious and learn. Here at the gaming expo at SXSW there are many unique takes on how to present games and what […]
Civics & Superheroes
Stories are powerful, just how and why all depends on the story . Christian Blauvelt is the Deputy Editor for Culture at the BBC. Christian’s thoughts on the new mainstream of comic book movies have a lot to do with the messaging in each film and what comments each of them make about our society. They […]
Tyler’s Friday at SXSW
Just a quick tour of Tyler’s highlights for the first day of SXSW.
Young Astronomers & JWST
At SXSW gaming expo NASA contractor Northrop Grumman has some young University of Texas Astronomy post docs and undergrads talking about the new James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST is launching in 2018 and will work with Hubble in our investigation of the cosmos. Eventually taking over Hubble’s role. Testing is going on right now […]
NASA & Cine Space
Frontiers and images, learning and inspiration, these are things at that core of how the NASA mission affects us. A new video aggregation service and competition was announced after Astronaut Don Pettit gave is talk about life on the International Space Station. NASA is teaming up with the Houston Cinema Arts Festival for their new […]