SCIENCE + FICTION
Links to Dr. Rob's essays, novels and stories.
Podcasts:
  • Dr. Rob talks with Steve and Larry on WriterDojo https://anchor.fm/writerdojo/episodes/S3-Ep13
  • Hear about Dr. Hampson's research on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow. https://on.soundcloud.com/bVLGo
  • Dr. Hampson was featured on Trailblazers podcast with Walter Isaacson. Liston to "Memory, the Science of How We Remember" from Feb. 22, 2023. https://www.stitcher.com/show/trailblazers-with-walter-isaacson
Essays - Dr. Rob writes about science for Brain & Brain Ink:
Science Articles for Baen Books:

Putting the Science in Science Fiction - Dr. Tedd’s introduction: The relationship between speculative fiction and science - including scientists who write SF!

The Neuroscience of Darkships - The science behind the scenes of Sarah A. Hoyt’s Darkship Renegades.

On the Road to the BrainShips - Ann McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang inspires a look at the current science of interfacing brain and machine.

A Terrible Thing to Lose - Zombie Science in John Ringo’s Under a Graveyard Sky.

From “Smart Flesh” to Custom Organs - The “growing” science of tissue engineering.

Why Science is Never Settled - The scientific method, art of peer review, science controversies and “consensus” through history.  Part 1.  Part 2.

Even Fantasy Needs Science - Is magic really just sufficiently advanced technology?

A Translunar Laboratory … Hurrah! - Why we need to build a space laboratory, what it needs to do, where it needs to be located.

Remember to Remind Me! - How has the science and understanding of human memory changed in the 100 years since the discovery of Alzheimer’s Disease? 

Will Hollywood ever get it Right?  - A look at science in the movies.

Are We Really Just Wired Differently? - Are human memory, personality & talent just a matter of wiring?

Homo Stellaris - Becoming the People of the Stars - What will it take for humans to adapt themselves and their environments to Interstellar travel and exploration?

Seeing Inside Your Head: From MRI to Telepathy? Can sufficiently advance brain imaging really tell what someone is thinking?

Fixing Broken Memory - Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic for human memory - the story of the amazing first-of-its-kind breakthrough and the team that made it happen.

Do You Believe in the Singularity? - What is meant by a "Singularity" in terms of human (and intelligence) evolution?  Is it possible that through AI, bionics and biomedical engineering that humans will evolve to a point that we'll no longer be recognizeable as human?

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