Science http://charlestonmag.com/term/1678/all en Going Viral http://charlestonmag.com/features/going_viral <div class="field field-name-field-issue-pubdate field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">03/2014</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-isprimary field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">no</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-writer field-type-node-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Written By:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Jacqui Calloway</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subhead field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="p1">The latest book in a&nbsp;locally set young-adult&nbsp;series promises infectious fun</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://charlestonmag.com/sites/default/files/styles/675wide/public/ViralMain.jpg?itok=DIB1JDM2" width="675" height="1008" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="p1">Kathy Reichs is no newcomer to the literary realm. Her adult book series about forensic anthropologist Temperance &ldquo;Tempe&rdquo; Brennan even inspired the Fox show Bones (which she produces). When her son, Brendan, asked her to co-write a young adult series, Virals, it was a no-brainer: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve met thousands of younger fans who were fascinated by forensic science,&rdquo; she says.&nbsp;</p> <p class="p3">And the co-writing aspect? &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be honest&mdash;there are days when we don&rsquo;t talk as politely,&rdquo; Brendan jokes, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;ve shared a cohesive vision from day one.&rdquo;</p> <p class="p3">The Virals books follow Tory Brennan, Tempe&rsquo;s teenaged niece who lives here in the Lowcountry. When Tory and her friends are infected with a &ldquo;supervirus&rdquo; and develop extraordinary powers, they use their new abilities (and natural knack for science and technology) for good. In Exposure&mdash;the series&rsquo; fourth novel, which is due out March 4&mdash;the &ldquo;Virals&rdquo; are out to track down a pair of kidnapped classmates.</p> <p class="p3">As for the series&rsquo; Lowcountry setting, both authors are frequent visitors: Kathy just bought a barrier island home, and Brendan has taken an active role in YALLFest, Charleston&rsquo;s annual literary festival. That explains why the intrepid teens find themselves everywhere from their fictional prep school on Broad Street to Daniel Island.</p> <p class="p3">If your kids are into fast-paced, action-packed mysteries, it&rsquo;s not too late for them to join in (though once they finish this book, they&rsquo;ll demand the others). Given the cliffhanger ending, the gang definitely has more adventures in store.&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-resources field-type-text-long field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Resources:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Image courtesy of Brendan Reichs</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-typetags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">FEATURE TYPE:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/features/artist_profile">Artist Profile</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">PUBLICATION:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/charleston_magazine">Charleston Magazine</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagsfeatures field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">GENERAL TAGS:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/art">Art</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/books">Books</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/local">Local</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/science">Science</a></div></div></div> Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:48:53 +0000 web intern 19113 at http://charlestonmag.com Universal Pictures http://charlestonmag.com/features/universal_pictures <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Publication:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/charleston_magazine">Charleston Magazine</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-issue-pubdate field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">01/2013</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-type field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Local Seen</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-isprimary field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">no</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-writer field-type-node-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Written By:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Anna Evans </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subhead field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>CofC professor Joe Carson works with an international astronomy team to image planets light years from Earth</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://charlestonmag.com/sites/default/files/styles/675wide/public/universalmain.jpg?itok=-EE2xqkQ" width="675" height="530" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>When Joe Carson isn’t teaching physics and astronomy, he’s collaborating with the world’s top scientists in a competitive race to unlock secrets of our universe. One of his projects—capturing a picture of the coldest companion to a sun-like star ever imaged—hit <em>Time</em>’s list of 2009’s top science discoveries. Find out what else he’s seeing in the stars.</p> <p><strong>CM: <em>W</em><em>hat fascinates you about astronomy?</em><br /> JC: </strong>I guess it’s about trying to understand why we’re here—how does life on Earth fit into the rest of the universe?&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CM: <em>What's your specialty within the field?</em><br /> JC:</strong> My research focuses on the direct imaging of extrasolar planets, which are planets that go around a star that isn’t our sun. We use the biggest telescopes in the world—such as the Subaru in Hawaii—that give us a raw image in which the star looks huge because its light is spilling out everywhere. Then we write software that strips away the star’s light so we can distinguish the little bit of light that is the planet. In the last five or six years, big steps have been made in advancing both the instruments and the software, so a lot of things are coming together right now. It’s a bit of a watershed moment.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CM:<em> Te</em><em>ll us about the discovery that made the cover of </em>Sky &amp; Telescope <em>last August.</em><br /> JC:</strong> You know how the planets around our sun orbit in a disk? Well if you’d looked at the sun when it was just a few million years old, you would have seen a thick disk going around it, from which the planets were forming. I was on a team of researchers that imaged a disk like this around the young LkCa 15 star (about 450 light years from Earth) and saw a gap in it where we think a planet is forming, vacuuming up the material around it. Another team later imaged what we believe is the planet itself.</p> <p><strong>CM: <em>How old is a “young star”?</em><br /> JC:</strong> The youngest stars my team studies are one- to five-million years old.</p> <p><strong>CM: <em>Why was the imaging of the gap around LkCa 15 so important?&nbsp;</em><br /> JC: </strong>This is perhaps the first time we are seeing a snapshot of what our own infant solar system may have looked like. The star is similar in mass to the sun, and the planets seem to be forming at a distance similar to our planets. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CM: <em>U</em><em>nder your supervision, two CofC undergrad</em><em>s identified an extrasolar planet, making news last fall—can you explain?</em><br /> JC: </strong>Thea Kozakis and Laura Stevens imaged a planet orbiting a star that is 2.5 times bigger than the sun. It’s the largest star to ever have a planet imaged around it and provides further evidence that planets can exist around stars that are very different from our sun.</p> <p> <strong>Hometown:</strong> San Diego, California</p> <p><strong>Occupation:</strong> Assistant professor in College of Charleston’s Department of Physics and Astronomy</p> <p><strong>Favorite planet:</strong> Jupiter. “It acts like a vacuum, sweeping up comets and asteroids that would otherwise crash into Earth.”</p> <p><strong>Resume highlights:</strong> Worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California on the Terrestrial Planet Finder Mission (2004-07) and at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany (2007-10)</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-related-articles field-type-node-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Related articles:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/features/the_rise_of_silicon_harbor">The Rise of Silicon Harbor</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/features/top_brass">Top Brass</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/features/play_smarter">Play Smarter</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/features/return_of_the_ancient_mariner">Return of the Ancient Mariner</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-typetags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">FEATURE TYPE:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/features/local_seen">Local Seen</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">PUBLICATION:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/charleston_magazine">Charleston Magazine</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagsfeatures field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">GENERAL TAGS:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/college_of_charleston">College of Charleston</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/education">Education</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/astronomy">Astronomy</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/joe_carson">Joe Carson</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/science">Science</a></div></div></div> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:51:34 +0000 Rory Johnson 17158 at http://charlestonmag.com Lesson Plans http://charlestonmag.com/features/lesson_plans <div class="field field-name-field-issue-pubdate field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">08/2010</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-isprimary field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">no</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-writer field-type-node-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Written By:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Bessie Gantt</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>After a summer of footloose fun, do your kids have the back-to-school blues? Never fear: we&#39;ve compiled a syllabus of exciting yet educational activities to get those noggins jogging again.</p> <!--break--><p>The coursework id divided by subject - Science, History, and Art - and age group, but almost all van be adjusted for the whole family to enjoy. Start with a good read, take a field trip, and suddenly everybody&#39;s having a blast - er, learning something. We won&#39;t tell if you won&#39;t tell.</p> <table border="0" cellpadding="2.5" cellspacing="0" width="470"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/science"><img height="150" src="http://www.charlestonmag.com/lessons/sciencethumb.jpg" width="150" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/history"><img alt="" height="150" src="http://www.charlestonmag.com/lessons/historythumb.jpg" width="150" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/art"><img alt="" height="150" src="http://www.charlestonmag.com/lessons/artthumb.jpg" width="150" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/science"><strong>Science</strong></a></div> </td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/history"><strong>History</strong></a></div> </td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.charlestonmag.com/charleston_magazine/feature/art"><strong>Art</strong></a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-typetags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">FEATURE TYPE:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/features/family">Family</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">PUBLICATION:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/charleston_magazine">Charleston Magazine</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagsfeatures field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">GENERAL TAGS:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/science">Science</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/history">History</a></div></div></div> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:42:11 +0000 Rory Johnson 6708 at http://charlestonmag.com
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