Christie Nicholson

Jacking into the brain

Christie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:04:50 +0000

Check out this panel proposal for next year’s SXSW Interactive festival:

Will we be able to jack into the brain and upload helicopter instructions, like in The Matrix? We already have the technology to control a prosthetic arm or Twitter with thoughts alone. Dishes of neurons can control a robot. And scientists have created a working artificial memory chip in rats.

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What do I do, and where can you find me?

Christie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:44:04 +0000

I’m a freelance science journalist living in Brooklyn, NY.

I write, edit and produce science stories for all media (audio, video and text).

christie.nicholson@gmail.com

646-373-2478

on Twitter here.

PLEASE VOTE!
for my SXSW Interactive panels:

The Brain as Computer Interface

How Technology Affects Our Brain

LINKS TO SOME OF MY WORK:

60-Second Psych: Produce and host this weekly podcast covering human behavior and neuroscience.

60-Second Earth: Produce this weekly podcast covering energy and the environment.

60-Second Science: Occasional host of this daily podcast covering all that is new and cool in science and technology.

The Monitor: An innovative video podcast launched by SciAm in 2007.

Grand Unified Weekly: Re-incarnation of a science video podcast hosted by Slate.com in winter of 2008.

Faculty at the Science Communications Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta.

The importance of romance

Christie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:01:45 +0000

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Sometimes things are just out of control

Christie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:01:16 +0000

Newton’s first law: An object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to remain in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

Introducing Grand Unified Weekly, Episode 3

Christie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:35:58 +0000

The weekly science round up for the rest of us.

As said by our producer, Christopher Mims: Grand Unified Weekly has landed at SlateV like a Megatherium brought down by a pack of Smilodons, and the world can never be the same again.

Hulu Brings Back WKRP in Cincinnati

Christie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:40:43 +0000

Among other greats from my childhood (yes I was eight in 1978 and I was sorta in love with Johnny Fever) are old episodes of WKRP now watchable any time on Hulu.com.

It’s amazing what the people at Hulu are doing. In my opinion this is the first view into a viable future of video on the Web.

I’m fond of this clip from the show - think how far we’ve come…in such a short time. I mean we were still splicing tape only 15 years ago.

(and I cut this clip from the entire episode on Hulu - they allow you to cut ins and outs right there on the site.)

Lucinda: Still badass

Christie — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:37:11 +0000

The Future of Magazines, and How Horses are Inolved

Christie — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:02:04 +0000

Do you really think information can be treated as the same sort of commodity as transportation?

io9 publishes this prediction for print in a digital world made by ex-Conde Nast editorial director, James Truman.

“Print magazines are becoming more luxurious on their way to obsolescence, says former Condé Nast editorial director James Truman. Speaking at the “Quickie” performance evening in San Francisco, Truman talked about why he left Condé Nast and what he’s learned about the future of print publishing. Hint: It has to do with horses, star-gazing and Burning Man.”

An intuitive, really smart, Web tool

Christie — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:06:27 +0000

Ubiquity, from Mozilla labs, is the neatest new tool I’ve seen in months.

A must see.

The Monitor: Squids, Corpse Whales, Turbo Evolution; Smart Robots

Christie — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:51:59 +0000