Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
CodeXgalactic hosts writings by polymath Christine Corbett Moran on a variety of topics including: science, science fiction, productivity, philosophy, humanities, motherhood, culture, sports, politics, music, quantum computing, programming, physics, AI, biology, art, and more.
Hi! I’m Christine. My mother called me “Dr. Moran”, the internet knows me as “corbett”, my colleagues call me “Chris”, and my kids call me “mom”. I like collecting projects and experiences which I hope will one day render me able to solve any problem I find interesting or important. My portfolio of projects is Read More ...
Two years ago — to this day — my now-husband Casey Handmer and I started dating. This month we got married in a conference celebration! In this post, I’ll share the what a conference wedding is and what we learned from holding one. a conference/wedding in the Auckland rainforest Conference Wedding Casey, myself, and our community, are lifelong learners. Read More …
Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my second pick, check out my first. Stay tuned for more. In 1666, the same year that Newton graduated Cambridge, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, wrote A Description of A New World, Called the Blazing-World, Read More …
Over the next five months, I’m reading and reviewing ten pioneering works of science fiction written by women. This is my first pick. Stay tuned for more. The Female Man is a science fiction novel about the interaction of four women from parallel universes, each with different gender roles. These women travel between their respective Read More …
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 (Edited By Rich Horton) was the ideal selection to quantitatively examine factors which contributed to my having a high opinion of a science fiction or fantasy short story and the range and frequency of these factors considered appropriate for the short fiction market. I read all the Read More …
I’m delighted to be back doing numerical relativity research at Caltech after taking a year leave to deploy to the South Pole with the South Pole Telescope collaboration. I will continue to be involved with the South Pole Telescope data analysis in parallel with my work at Caltech to simulate formation pathways for supermassive black Read More …
Since IBM released access to its 5-qubit quantum computer, with accompanying tutorial and ability to simulate and program it easily (via a graphical language that spits out a simple code for archival along with results), I’ve been kind of obsessed. As I worked my way through the tutorials in IBM’s simulator, for my own benefit Read More …
As you might have heard on my website, my newsletter, my Twitter, or, if we’re colleagues at Caltech, at work, I am currently working on the South Pole Telescope (SPT) onsite at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 (I am employed by the University of Chicago). I have taken a sabbatical from my NSF Astronomy Read More …
This is a three part story about my journey to freeze my eggs. In part 1 I discuss the science and process of egg freezing. In part 2 I discuss the motivation behind why I chose to freeze my eggs. In part 3 I discuss the detailed logistics of the procedure as they pertained to Read More …
This is a three part story about my journey to freeze my eggs. In part 1 I discuss the science and process of egg freezing. In part 2 I discuss the motivation behind why I chose to freeze my eggs. In part 3 I discuss the detailed logistics of the procedure as they pertained to Read More …
This is a three part story about my journey to freeze my eggs. In part 1 I discuss the science and process of egg freezing. In part 2 I discuss the motivation behind why I chose to freeze my eggs. In part 3 I discuss the detailed logistics of the procedure as they pertained to Read More …