Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
This is the second post in my breastfeeding series. Black holes are objects so massive that nothing, not even light can escape them. The so-called “event horizon” marks the boundary around the black hole; cross this event horizon and there is no turning back. As a space traveler crossing into this event horizon, you’d notice Read More …
Before I had a baby, I looked at other babies with the same affection I looked at my morning alarm. I knew I had it in me to be a good mom. Maternal was another matter. I wasn’t certain I would be overwhelmed by motherly warmth. I was happy to find that being maternal came Read More …
Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my eighth pick. Stay tuned for more. Who Fears Death is the coming of age story of Onyesonwu as she becomes a sorceress and hunts her father, the sorcerer who has been trying to kill Read More …
Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my seventh pick. Stay tuned for more. Ancillary Justice is a space opera set during the tail end of the Radchaai empire’s heyday. The empire is a human civilization driven by ruthlessly colonizing new worlds, Read More …
Moving the Mountain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my sixth pick. Stay tuned for more. Moving the Mountain (1911) is a novel whose plot is thinly veiled over the author’s political vision for the future. After thirty years Read More …
Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my fifth pick. Stay tuned for more. Alice B. Sheldon was an explorer, painter, Army Major, psychology Ph.D., socialite, and CIA agent. She is most known as the science fiction author who came to prominence Read More …
The First Call at the Red Door Cafe Friday September 25, 2015 was the day my life would change forever. The life of someone about to spend a year at the South Pole was surely different than the life of a research scientist in Pasadena and until September 25 I could imagine either but never both. Read More …
This past May, I had the honor of giving the commencement speech for my old high school, Grandview Heights High School, in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. This is the transcript of my speech. It’s an honor to be back at Grandview Heights High School today, 15 years after I was sitting in your seats. Read More …
Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my fourth pick. Stay tuned for more. Kindred is the story of Dana, an African-American woman who is inexplicably and repeatedly transported back to the antebellum South from Los Angeles in 1976. Dana’s purpose is Read More …
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my third pick. Stay tuned for more. Parable of the Sower is the haunting tale of twelve year old Lauren Oya Olamina growing up in the United States in 2024. Read More …