{"id":30411,"date":"2010-11-07T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-times-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:11:51","slug":"the-times-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-times-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"The Times They Are A-Changin\u2019 | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two days I&rsquo;ve given talks at Indiana University and Penn State University. It&rsquo;s refreshing to speak with so many bright students actively working to make their research more accessible and relevant to broad audiences. Today I&rsquo;m very much looking forward to spending some time with the Fellows involved in Penn State&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/carbonearth.org\/\">CarbonEARTH<\/a> program&ndash;a terrific initiative supported by the NSF GK-12 grant:<\/p><blockquote><p>The CarbonEARTH (Educators and Researchers Together for Humanity) Fellowship Program teams Penn State Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduate students with elementary and middle school science teachers from Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Philipsburg and Harrisburg school districts. The CarbonEARTH program uses the interdisciplinary theme of carbon, broadly construed, as a unifying platform for student investigation, discovery, training and education.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>I tremendously enjoy these campus visits and sense a growing awareness among young scientists that public engagement beyond academia will be necessary to influence and inform the global decision-making process. If the individuals I&rsquo;ve been meeting are representative of where the science community is headed, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?url=http:\/\/s0.ilike.com\/play%23Bob%2BDylan:The%2BTimes%2BThey%2BAre%2BA-Changin%27:10280:s41533418.10996528.4657974.0.2.36%252Cstd_7ef9b96c67764a6683c32747ab699715&amp;rct=j&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=HenTTOejJ9SknQeNt43rBQ&amp;ved=0CCAQ0wQwAA&amp;q=the+times+they+are+a+changin&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqE2ffa5WqznaycyY9OZHE2ljYZw&amp;cad=rjt\">the times they are a-changin&rsquo;<\/a>.<\/p><p>And I remain optimistic.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UWoJe_IJqxQOizlsKQMoQ2v22_Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/157b9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UWoJe_IJqxQOizlsKQMoQ2v22_Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/157b9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/157b9_5m54oY6F3TQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two days I&rsquo;ve given talks at Indiana University and Penn State University. It&rsquo;s refreshing to speak with so many bright students actively working to make their research more accessible and relevant to broad audiences. Today I&rsquo;m very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-times-they-are-a-changin%e2%80%99-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}