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 […]
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 […]
Dawn of the Harvest It only has taken us 214 years since Giuseppe Piazzi spotted the asteroid Ceres, but if everything goes correctly Friday, the Dawn space craft will enter in to orbit around Ceres. The space craft launched in 2007 and spent part of 2011 and 2012 around the asteroid Vista, a smaller […]
The world will one day become colorblind, and we will all just be beige. As far as millennials are concerned, this day is already here! To reach your target markets, not only do you have to be digital, but your content has to be adaptable, flexible and relevant to all ethinicites. So how exactly do […]
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Data visualizations gained popularity as a means to capture large amounts of information to create visually appealing and simplified means of explaining information. Some companies have begun to use graphical representations to show differences and quantities of data in a simplified form and provide more access to people with disabilities. “Graphical visualizations provide lots of […]
Journalism is evolving into a more engaging, consumer-oriented format. The problem is that many institutions are slow to adopt and are essentially constrained by their content management systems. So what can journalists and educators do to get with the times?