I have had a pretty amazing two weeks. On December 8th, my wife gave birth to our daughter, Rose, and ever since we have all been home together getting to know our new family. I’m lucky to have a job with a leave policy that has allowed me to take this time without too much […]
Spectacular video capturing and presenting some remarkable starling flight patterns. Together, a flock of starlings is called a “murmuration.” The science behind their flight is pretty interesting, too. Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
The news today that the world population has hit 7 billion is challenging to process. NPR.org makes it more intelligible with this video showing how that population has changed over time in different regions of the world. I love visualizations like this, that take something so mind-bendingly complex and make it so simple and […]
I’m taking a thought-provoking class at the USDA grad school called “Information Architecture and the User Experience.” We meet on Wednesday nights and talk, basically, about how information is organized. Everyone has had experiences where we go to a website and after a few minutes of clicking around in search of whatever brought us there […]
As part of my work, I helped develop the following animation depicting changes to the global carbon cycle over time. This accompanied a GAO technical assessment on geoengineering — research and techniques focused on altering the Earth’s climate to help alleviate the effects of global climate change. I have embedded the video version below; the […]
Isn’t it a beauty? Grown in Washington, DC, driven 10 hours north on 95, and devoured as part of a salad in Cape Elizabeth, Maine on Friday, August 5th, 2011. You will be missed.
I’m a fan of QR codes and the potential they have for improving government communication with the public. As people are increasingly mobile, this is a great way to help them transition your content to their mobile device and take it with them. (Exhibit A: the upper-right hand corner of this screen.) As this video […]
Last week, Google unveiled its much-anticipated social networking platform Google+ (pronounced “Google Plus”). Clearly Google wants to compete with Facebook in this sphere. A lot of details need to be ironed out before we know how successfully it will do so — including at what point people will actually get to join the service — […]
President Obama cracks a pretty good robot joke while announcing his new robotics initiative: