Frankenstein Graduate Position at ASU

Year: 2012

Frankenstein

Frankenstein Graduate Position at ASU

Attention prospective Arizona State University graduate students! ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination and Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes are seeking a Graduate Research Assistant as part of

Book Cover, Title: American Dreamers Quote reads "My new American Dream is the hope that my old American dream-the one that I was lucky enough to live myself-will continue to expand and be available to all who seek it." Arianna Huffington. Subtitle, Optimists, Mavericks, and Mad Inventors Share their dreams for brighter futures.

First Principles

Newly released: American Dreamers, a collection of “dreams from optimists, inventors and mavericks with ideas for a brighter future.” My essay (online here) leads off the book with a look at the combustible, illuminating nature of good ideas and the unique optimism of the American Dream. It’s also a pretty good declaration of principles for what we are trying to accomplish at the Center for Science and the Imagination.

How tall can we build?

One of our Hieroglyph collaborations.

ASU-Intel collaboration challenges students to imagine brighter sustainable futures

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Sci-fi writers help scientists bridge gap between fantasy and reality

Future is Now at ASU with New 293k-Square-Foot Science, Tech Hub

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Contest: Help Us Imagine and Build a Better Future–No Politics Required

Introducing the Center for Science and the Imagination

A Place Where Science and Science Fiction Can Be of One Mind

ASU Launches Center for Science and the Imagination

Center for Science and the Imagination to Launch at ASU’s Newest Interdisciplinary Building, ISTB4

How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything

Sci-Fi Author Alan Dean Foster to Appear at ASU

Tomorrow Project: Humanities – Imagining Our Future (And Yes, Tweeting Cows!)

Ron Broglio, Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, discusses how philosophy, aesthetics and literature can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment.

Neal Stephenson on Science Fiction, Building Towers 20 Kilometers High…and Insurance

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Dear Science Fiction Writers: Stop Being So Pessimistic!