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 ...
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 …
October was dominated by my preparation to leave early at the end of the month to interview to be an Astronaut with NASA. Spoiler alert: I ended up not being able to make it in person and staying instead to mid-November at the South Pole. But I’ll tell this story from the perspective of someone Read More …
Postcards have been sent. Final count: US 236 postcards, International 84 postcards. Whew! Please tweet a photo of you with the postcard to @corbett when you receive your postcard, hopefully within the next month. The post office doesn’t have any more opening hours while I’m here, so I’m unable to take any additional requests for Read More …
Thank you to everyone who contacted me with your address! I have over 200 postcards to send and will be preparing them today. Unfortunately, I’m unable to take additional addresses to send postcards to at this stage–I mentioned replying within 5 days to my original email. If you’ve signed up for the newsletter since then Read More …
Do you want a postcard from the South Pole? Reply to this message with your address in the next 5 days and expect one in the mail! We’re about 800 subscribers now, and my goal was 1,000 by the end of my long stay, so feel free to forward to others interested in reading more Read More …
Last we spoke we were in the middle of a medevac, which was highly successful. The plane was parket on slats to prevent it from freezing to the ice: Here are a few collected articles on the medevac: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/south-pole-rescue-pilots-it-was-dark-cold-and-no-big-deal/2016/07/05/313c76c4-42ff-11e6-a76d-3550dba926ac_story.html http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/south-pole-rescue-all-in-a-day-s-work-for-kenn-borek-air-crew-1.2974034 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/emergency-rescue-launched-ill-worker-south-pole https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138914 In addition to the patients making it out safely (primary mission), we got Read More …
Update: the medical evacuation mission is proceeding as planned, with a few minor delays. This Washington Post Article has a few more public details. I hope to be able to share an insider’s perspective as I am permitted. With the medevac mission proceeding as planned, crew morale is still high. This issue is about our midwinter Read More …
The first medical evacuation flight to the South Pole station in the middle of winter has been launched. I cannot share more details at this time due to patient and pilot privacy, but I can share that I am personally safe. I hope to be able to share more details of the rescue in the future, and especially Read More …
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