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Perspective On Sudan: Hassan Turabi Interview
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 10:20 am | Suzan Mazur
Related Oscillations story— “The 2019 Sudanese Revolution” Having visited Sudan following a United Nations condemnation of the al-Bashir government for human rights abuse, I find it curious that 16,000 Americans call Sudan home, although Ted ... More >>
“Gangen” with Virologist Luis Perez Villarreal | Suzan Mazur
Friday, 24 July 2015, 1:18 pm | Suzan Mazur
If living systems work by these processes that are consortial and complex, then our very language and logic is a problem in terms of how we apply it to understand what’s going on. – Luis P. Villarreal More >>
Alastair Thompson, Scoop Media & the Cost of Free Journalism
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 12:09 pm | Suzan Mazur
How does a news organization that cares about authentic journalism and has a mission to effect “positive change” continue to operate in these times of derivative storytelling when advertising dollars are no longer determined by the quality of ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Tea & Politics with Christopher Lee
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 3:14 pm | Suzan Mazur
When I learned recently of Christopher Lee’s death, I was moved to revisit the interview we did over tea in then-newly independent Lithuania where the actor was taping an episode of Robin Hood for TNT. Lee was in Vilnius to play the part of Olwyn ... More >>
Stuart Newman: The Virosphere And Non-Linear Evolution
Monday, 25 May 2015, 10:26 am | Suzan Mazur
It was Stuart Newman who was the first of the Altenberg 16 scientists I discussed developments with following the Extended Synthesis symposium in 2008 at Konrad Lorenz Institute, a meeting I was barred from attending for having gotten out in front of ... More >>
The Origin of Life Circus - A New Book By Suzan Mazur
Saturday, 3 January 2015, 12:34 pm | Suzan Mazur
The Origin of Life Circus - A New Book By Suzan Mazur Press Release from Suzan Mazur More >>
"Oomph" & Origin of Life at Hydrothermal Vents
Thursday, 7 August 2014, 5:33 pm | Suzan Mazur
The notion that life originated in hydrothermal vents was for a long time a sleepy area of scientific inquiry because the vents first found, known as "black smokers," were way too hot and acidic. But in 1989, Michael Russell, a British geochemist who ... More >>
University of Illinois Channels Carl Woese for All
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 5:16 pm | Suzan Mazur
Author Isaac Asimov once told me he did his best thinking in his underwear. Asimov might have appreciated the convenience of MOOC-style learning, that is, the free "massive open online course" experience being offered by the University of Illinois, ... More >>
An Interview with Jack Szostak
Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 4:34 pm | Suzan Mazur
There is a certain hush when the name Jack Szostak is mentioned in science circles. Yes he's a Nobel Laureate, but the pause seems to be more for a man people trust. He's also a handsome man, with fine Polish features (his paternal grandfather was ... More >>
Matt Powner: Making a Protocell
Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 2:57 pm | Suzan Mazur
Protocell pioneer Matthew Powner has the fresh-face good looks of an athlete you'd expect to show up at World Cup 2014, and a voice reminiscent of the "British Invasion" (he's from the north of England). But the relaxed focus he projects signals something ... More >>
Jack Szostak: "Life in Lab" In 3 - 5 Years
Tuesday, 3 June 2014, 5:57 pm | Suzan Mazur
"You heard it here first," announced World Science Festival moderator and astrophysicist Mario Livio as Harvard biologist and Nobel laureate Jack Szostak told a "Search for Life" gathering of 50 on Saturday afternoon in New York that he expected to make ... More >>
Jaron Lanier: Stop Online Human Exploitation
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 10:54 am | Suzan Mazur
Great minds think alike -- that is, late Saturday Night Live comedic genius Michael O'Donoghue and Jaron Lanier, the "father of virtual reality" and author of the book, Who Owns the Future? More >>
"Beit Noam-ize" America's Batterers?--Kit Gruelle
Tuesday, 4 March 2014, 5:58 pm | Suzan Mazur
I've been thinking about domestic violence partly because of the film Private Violence recently shown at Sundance and other film festivals and now scheduled for an October run on HBO -- featuring women's advocate Kit Gruelle, among others, and with Gloria ... More >>
The Whereabouts of the Dorak Treasure Monograph
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 12:10 pm | Suzan Mazur
Arlette Mellaart has died, the beloved wife of the late British archaeologist James Mellaart -- who gave us the fabulous story of the Dorak Treasure. Although I've seen no notice in the media about the passing of Mrs. Mellaart, her son Alan told me by ... More >>
Darling, Which of Us Is the Robot? -- Slawek Nasuto
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 12:01 pm | Suzan Mazur
Cyberneticist Slawomir Jaroslaw Nasuto has a radiance that can only be Polish. He was born in eastern Poland, in Lublin, during the Soviet years (Stalin was embraced by the post-WWII provisional Polish government headquartered there) and is now doing ... More >>
Robots and the 1% -- Vincent Müller Interview
Monday, 11 November 2013, 1:07 pm | Suzan Mazur
Philosopher Vincent Müller has been to the mount. To the peak, of Mt. Olympus that is, many times, as a mountaineering enthusiast who now calls Greece home. These days Müller thinks a lot about how Artificial Intelligence will -- pro and con -- impact ... More >>
ICE "Incompetence" In Iranian Griffin Debacle
Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 6:18 pm | Suzan Mazur
As the Iranian silver griffin debacle continues to be dissected, I have heard more from Peter Northover, head of the materials-based science/archaeology group at Oxford University, one of three authenticators on the griffin for New York art dealer Hicham ... More >>
A Fake? -- "America's Souvenir to the Iranian People"
Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 12:38 pm | Suzan Mazur
The big thaw in US - Iran relations has been compromised. The world's leading authority on antiquities fakes -- long-time Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Near East expert Oscar White Muscarella, who excavated throughout the 1960s in Iran -- has told me ... More >>
Piet Hut: Origins of Life and Herding Cats
Friday, 22 March 2013, 10:35 am | Suzan Mazur
Institute for Advanced Study astrophysicist Piet Hut moves lithely, unassumingly, harmoniously through a crowd often in signature t-shirt (unlike Piethut, the asteroid named for him orbiting the sun with a semimajor axis of 2.4 AU, an eccentricity of ... More >>
Tokyo Origin of Life Talks: Core of Earth--Beyond
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 11:35 am | Suzan Mazur
In January there was Princeton's publicly streamed powwow on Origin of Life oriented to chemistry. Then February's private meeting on the subject at CERN on the Swiss-French border, focused on physics and philosophy. Tokyo's upcoming symposium, March 27-29, ... More >>
