Paul Raeburn
Autore di Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
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Paul Raeburn a journalist and the author four books, included Acquainted with the Night. He's stories have appeared in Discover. The Huffington Post. The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, AND Psychology today among many other publications A Past president of the National Association OF mostra altro Science Write he has been a science editor at BusinessWeek and the Associated Press, and the creator and host of innovations m Medicine on XM satellite radionn Reebum lives in New York City with his wife the write Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn and their children. You can find him on Twitter@praeburn and on his website at www.paulraeburn.com. mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1950-11-26
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BA|Physics)
Berklee College of Music (Boston ∙ Massachusetts ∙ USA) - Attività lavorative
- journalist
editor
writer
radio broadcaster - Relazioni
- DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- National Association of Science Writers (former president)
Sigma XI (honorary member) - Breve biografia
- Paul Raeburn is the author of the memoir Acquainted with the Night: A Parent’s Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children (Broadway Books, 2004). From 1996-2003, he was the science editor and a senior writer at Business Week. Before that, he was the science editor and chief science correspondent at The Associated Press (1981-96). He is a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and occasional guest host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. And he is the organizer of the annual New Horizons in Science writers’ conference, sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
Raeburn is also the author of Mars published by the National Geographic Society in 1998, and The Last Harvest, published by Simon & Schuster in 1995. He has written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Psychology Today, The Washington Post, Discover, Popular Science, Child, Self, Technology Review and many other newspapers and magazines.
Raeburn is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and a recipient of its Science-in-Society Award. He has also received the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for excellence, two Deadline Club awards, two Computer Press Association awards, and the John P. McGovern Award for Excellence in Medical Communications from the American Medical Writers Association. He is an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.
Raeburn has been a journalism fellow at Stanford University, and science-writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. He also studied composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and he plays piano and guitar. Before joining the AP, he worked for the Boston Phoenix and the Lowell (Mass.) Sun.
A native of Detroit, Raeburn now lives and works in New York City with his wife, the writer Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn.
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Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us about…
The author presents a compilation of research on fathers and how fathering impacts children. The overall consensus is fathering is just as important to children as mothering. Pretty much if a mother doing something has a certain impact on children, the father doing the same thing would have the same impact. Fathers play with children a bit differently from mothers, tending to be more playful, rough, and fun. Research has found this kind of play to be beneficial to children (and mice :D ) Fathers also has unique genetic contributions to their children. There are some traits and illnesses that are determined by genes from the father. (Fathers over 50 years of age are six times more likely to have children with autism or schizophrenia than fathers in their 20s. I didn't know this before.) In the concluding chapter the author wrote about two of his friends who never knew their father. One's parents split before she was born and she never met her father. The other was the child of a sperm donor. Both women expressed anguish to the author over not having a father in their lives, despite people telling them they don't need to have a father to be happy. Gives me much food for thought.… (altro)
Beginning with the mythology of Mars dating back to ancient times, Raeburn takes us on a tour through the earliest efforts to study Mars, including the “discovery” of its once-famous canals, and the many volumes of science fiction they spawned.
Mars includes spectacular photographs of the red planet, culled from NASA’s archives, including a three-dimensional fold out of the Martian landscape as seen by the Pathfinder mission. (The book comes with a pair of 3-D glasses.)
Mars includes spectacular photographs of the red planet, culled from NASA’s archives, including a three-dimensional fold out of the Martian landscape as seen by the Pathfinder mission. (The book comes with a pair of 3-D glasses.)
Anyone not familiar with game theory but who normally enjoys a good parenting book might still be a little bored by this one. However, if you're like me in that you prefer your non-fiction mixed with a smattering of math and dry economic principles whenever appropriate AND you happen to be a parent of small children, then the Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting could be the book for you. You'll likely discover you employ some of these tactics already, but didn't realize there was a name for it.
The authors make an original case for their methods—a modern twist based on centuries-old ideas—and then provide demonstrations using the paradoxical rules of parental negotiation. Even a term like "parental negotiation," for example, usually means the parents' word is the law (Authoritarian), but the authors argue that this approach still has the side effect of child resentment which in turn causes a slew of other unintended consequences. The goal, after all, is to arrive at an elegant and fair solution even though children possess little more than a nonsensical sense of logic and argument. Then again, you might lack the patience for game theory if you're on a road with a car full of hungry kids trying to find a friggin' place to eat.… (altro)
The authors make an original case for their methods—a modern twist based on centuries-old ideas—and then provide demonstrations using the paradoxical rules of parental negotiation. Even a term like "parental negotiation," for example, usually means the parents' word is the law (Authoritarian), but the authors argue that this approach still has the side effect of child resentment which in turn causes a slew of other unintended consequences. The goal, after all, is to arrive at an elegant and fair solution even though children possess little more than a nonsensical sense of logic and argument. Then again, you might lack the patience for game theory if you're on a road with a car full of hungry kids trying to find a friggin' place to eat.… (altro)
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- 9
- Utenti
- 376
- Popolarità
- #64,175
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 5