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Ainissa Ramirez

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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD, loves science. When she was little, Ainissa got the idea of becoming a scientist from her favorite public television show "3-2-1 Contact." This put her on a path to get degrees in materials science from Brown and Stanford universities, and later work as a research scientist at Bell Labs and as a professor at Yale.

Ainissa not only loves science, she loves to share science with others. She has written for Forbes, Time, Science, The Atlantic, American Scientist, and Scientific American. She’s explained science on CBS, CNN, NPR, and PBS. She also speaks on the topics of science and technology and gave a TED talk on the importance of STEM education. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning title “The
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A Book Tour in a Time of Pandemic

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Generally, I consider myself to be a lucky person, but the type of luck that I mean is the luck one makes. For several years, I used that type of luck while writing my book, The Alchemy of Us. I didn’t have access to a well-funded library, so I cobbled together a patchwork of resources. I used public libraries for books, digital libraries for articles, Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 12, 2020 13:53 Tags: book-tour, pandemic
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“Scientists fail all the time. We just brand it differently. We call it data.”
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