Sarah Pena

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  Following in the Steps of a Peculiar Protomammal

  Five-toed tracks found in Argentina revise what paleontologists thought about a strange group of animals called dicynodonts....

  Sarah Pena March 22, 2019
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  There’s Nothing Wrong with Being a Luddite

  It enables critical reflection and evaluation of the technological world we’re building   I was recently called...

  Sarah Pena March 22, 2019
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  What High School Engineering Taught Me, and How It Can Empower Other Girls

  On International Women’s Day, a student reflects on a class that inspired her creativity   International Women’s...

  Sarah Pena March 20, 2019
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  Falling Walls: New Materials for a New Age

  You probably haven’t heard of “multiferroics,” but they could lead to entirely new ways of designing technologies, some...

  Sarah Pena March 20, 2019
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  Soil and Seaweed: Farming Our Way to a Climate Solution

  We can sequester carbon and improve our nutrition through regenerative farming of land and sea   Scientists...

  Sarah Pena March 20, 2019
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  A Gunman’s Regret

  Science can help society grapple with the horrors of modern gun violence   I gave a gift...

  Sarah Pena March 20, 2019
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  What Does It Mean to Be Self-Actualized in the 21st Century?

  New research links self-actualization to optimal creativity, well-being and self-transcendence   “There is now emerging over the...

  Sarah Pena March 20, 2019
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  You’ve Heard of the Anthropocene? Welcome to the Hellocene

  It sounds like a bad disaster movie, but climate change isn’t an abstract threat for our grandchildren....

  Sarah Pena March 18, 2019
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  Mind-bending Predictions About the Far Future of Technology

  Did You Know? In 1961, Stanislaw Lem’s novel, Return from the Stars predicted a touch-screen technology where...

  Sarah Pena February 8, 2017
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  How to use technology to be kind

  Let’s flip the switch on cyberbullying and instead focus on how to use technology to be kind....

  Sarah Pena January 31, 2017