September 2023 to April 2024

Learned Society (U.K.):  I was elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 

Studies: I continue what I started (see previous message). I have four courses left before I graduate from Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Projet: Working the matter! Nanotechnologies, 3D printing, biomaterials, metal and alloy, porcelain...I test many possibilities and many materials!

Exhibitions:  One of my drawings on plant morphology was selected as a "Masterpiece" for an exhibition in the United States. Another exhibition will take place in the U.K. soon.

Pro: I manage my company. My biggest client is in the Artificial Intelligence field...

Publications:  You can find my newsletter about the G.R.AI.N. (Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnologies) on LinkedIn. I have also published a few paper articles, including one on the microbiology of old books.

August 2023 No news but good news!

Learned Society (U.K.): I was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (January 2023) and I'm a member student of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Biology (United States in remote learning via zoom): I study with Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History  to improve my sense of observation (certificate in Natural Illustration - already 13 courses on 20!). You can see my project about Morphology of Plants on this link: https://sites.google.com/view/morphologyofplants).

Quantum Biology (France): I study Quantum Biology and Chemistry of Life + Physics-Chemistry for Biology with a French university. From the atom to the living via supra and nanoparticles (=how to construct life and DNA since particle physics/subatomic particles and elements) + intermolecular interactions, radiation-matter interaction, thermodynamics, biological waves, transport phenomena (as transfers of protons and electrons in biological medium), etc.

Pro: I manage a company.

Volunteering: I'm a volunteer as a Search Angel. I help adoptees, fatherless adults and donor conceived to find their biological family for a non-profit organization based in California.

Project:  An international glossary is currently being developed to help teachers around the world. I’m a volunteer reviewer for this glossary review system (French and English languages). The IAU Office of Astronomy for Education is the International Astronomical Union’s office dedicated to astronomy for primary and secondary education, and it is hosted by « The Haus der Astronomie » of the Max Planck Institute for astronomy.

You can make a research on the glossary on this page: https://astro4edu.org/resources/glossary/search

You can check my participation on this link: https://astro4edu.org/glossary-credits 

January 2022

Happy New Year 2022!

I have a LOT of work. I created my company and I train an artificial intelligence for a company based in Silicon Valley.

Projects:

• With the Covid, schools are in remote learning.  So my only projects are with my kids (high-school level). I am preparing one of them in biology (Biology 1 & 2 / Californian program). Therefore the experiments are related to enzymes, exobiology, the basis of genetics, etc. This is the advantage of having a laboratory at home :-)

Books: 

• How to clone a mammoth, the science of de-extinction (Beth Shapiro).

August 2021

Projects:

•  I'm  drawing a children's book about Optics in Nature. On the left a corner of my art studio...

• Some prints of my work are now available on Fine Art America and pixels.com.

Courses:

• Online courses via zoom with Yale University (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History/Program in Scientific & Natural Science Illustration):  Introduction to Field Sketching (8 hours) + Color theory (3 hours) + Paleobotany collections tour (online).

Books: 

• Applied Geo-Physics (1938)

• Radiation and waves in plasmas (1961)

• Optical waves in Crystals (1983)

• Microwaves and waves guides - Navyships (1954)

• Soap Bubbles, their colors and forces which mold them (2012- reprint  of the London 1911 edition) by C.V. Boys

• Frozen Bubble Photography (2019) by Belanne Pibal

June 2021

I received a thank you letter from NASA for my commitment to STEM education!!!  One of my videos was selected to go to the moon (pledge to the Artemis I Mission). A bit like time capsules, this video will be seen by future generations.

Courses:

• Online courses via zoom with Yale University (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History/Program in Scientific & Natural Science Illustration): 171x From the inside out, how to draw a dinosaur. 8 hours. 

May 2021

New life outside the United States...after two vaccines, three Covid tests and two quarantines...

I became independent 'Certified Expert' in Genetic Genealogy for one client who is world leader on this field.  

July 2020

My American county is in confinement since mid-March... and I try to back home (Canada) with my family...

Projects: 

• Mitosis/DNA & Chromosome staining (I hate to work with acid...). I need to redo the photos.

• Try to find new natural antibiotics with plants, kanamycin and Escherichia coli non-pathogenic bacteria stab. 

Course in progress:

• Law & Genetics with Cambridge University (online during the Covid-19).

May 2020

Diploma in progress:

Stanford genetics and genomics certificate (6 courses) with the Stanford Center Professional Development.

Projects: 

• Algaes & light (bioluminescence, fluorescence, photosynthesis).

• Old vintage scientific photos colorized + 3D face reconstruction (portraits of Marie Curie are fabulous!) just for the fun!

• My own genealogy and his mysteries...

• Smithsonian volunteer transcription. I helped with Sally K. Ride archives (first American woman to enter space): Archives are about the KidSat program (educational NASA project now called EarthKAM - Earth Knowledge). 

• I helped my teenagers with homeschooling (schools are closed since mid March and until next September...).

Books:

• Regenesis (Georges Church and Ed Regis)

• Children of the universe (Cosmic Education in the Montessori Elementary classroom) 

• What a plant knows, A field guide to the senses (Chamovitz)

• Computing with cells and atoms, An introduction to quantum, DNA and membrane computing.

February, March & April 2020

Diploma in progress:

Stanford genetics and genomics certificate (6 courses) with the Stanford Center Professional Development.

Projects:

• HeroX: Artificial intelligence + Origin of Life. Where did life and the genetic code come from? Can the answer build superior AI? 

• Working on new prototype about photons (duality wave-particle). Always in progress since December... I confirm my neurons have explosed during the process :-) 

Books:

• Evolution 2.0 (Perry Marshall)

• Biophysics for Dummies

• Coding for Dummies

• Genetics for Dummies (in French mon ami!)

• Signals and systems for Dummies

• Artificial Intelligence for Dummies

• Stopping Time, The photographs of Harold Edgerton

• La Peste by Albert Camus (in French)

• Bioinformatics, Genomics and post-genomics (Dardel and Kepes, translation by Hardy)

January 2020

Diploma in progress:

Stanford genetics and genomics certificate (6 courses) with the Stanford Center Professional Development.

Projects:

• Finish writing my books in sciences education K-12 and starting volume 3.

December 2019

Projects:

• Since September I'm writing seven books in maths and initiation to particles physics and miniature worlds for education for K-12. Time flies...

• I try to insert Green Fluorescent Protein from a Jellyfish gene inside a bacteria, and see how electrons are excited by ultraviolet light and how they absorb photons. My life is an adventure...

• Working on new prototype about photons (duality wave-particle). In progress... My neurons will eventually explode in the process ;-)

Books:

• Particle Physics in the Cosmos (Carrigan and Trower)

• Neutrino Hunters (Jayawardhana)

• From Newton to Hawking. A history of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics. (Knox, Noakes and foreword by Hawking)

May 2019

Projects:

• When I was a child, 12 years old, and the LDEF (ISS ancestor) came back to Earth, I was so sad ... I thought, "I could never do experiments on it". But it was not counting on Ebay 30 years later ;-)  Work in progress...

• Show to my son how build a VR Headset for his phone with only a box of recycled cereals, two bottles of recycled water for lenses, glue and water (to inject into the "lenses"). We have found a helmet from...1850 (for static image in 3D)! Our family motto: "Before buying something, try to see how it works and if you can make it." I take it from my grandmother ... the first geek of the family who decided when she was over 70 years in the 90s to take computer courses/programming with Amstrad CPC 464 (!) at the university because it was the future...

Books or magazine finished this month:

• Drawing Physics (Don S. Lemons).

• Extreme Physics (Scientific American).

• The Astronaut Selection Text Book (Tim Peake).

• Graphical Methods of Spin Algebras in Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics (El Baz and Castel).

Visits:

• California: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory visit.

• California: NASA Research Park+ Moffett Field.

April 2019

Projects:

• I found for less than $10 a great kit on Goodwill to model a bacterial infection (natural selection of antibiotic resistance). Super kit to work data with my teenagers.

• Project to show the impact of the consequences of nuclear radiation, pollution and Cosmic rays/neutron radiation in Space on plants and different ecosystems (see below in February for details).

Certification in progress and MOOC:

• Silicon Valley U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Workshops series on site for entrepreneurs and inventors about intellectual property and patents.

• Stanford University: Certificat in Foundations of Data Science (part 2).

Books finished this month:

• Newton to Einstein, the trail of light (Ralph Baierlein).

• Eléments d'électricité (Thibodeau). 1961 - Found by chance in a bookshop...

• Binary Arithmetic and Boolean Algebra (Angelo Gillie).

• Atom Land. A guided tour through the strange and impossibly small world or particle physics (Jon Butterworth).

March 2019

Projects:

• I have almost finished transforming the garage into an optical laboratory, which I will share with my teenagers. They for the Stop-Motion, me for Cosmic Rays, subatomic particles observation, laser maze, data analysis etc. Big work in painting, power-washing, floor and lighting. But it's worth it ;-) The garage can be transformed in 10 seconds into a dark room for photography with an anti-U.V. curtain, and the bulbs for the Stop-Motion have 16 million shades (!) that can be controlled by phone. For ecological reasons I bought several things / materials on Goodwill (Science and Education) or I make my own material with recycled things. I would not be the first to start a lab in my garage in Silicon Valley!

• Take control of a NASA telescope to take photos of the Sun in white light (Thank you NASA and Harvard University for this great project: MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network!).

• By the past, on ten years (!), I deposed three French Copyrights registration (science education, virtual reality for people with Alzheimer and art-therapy). Today I think about my first U.S. patent and my first U.S. Copyright in Subatomic particles experiences/new kind of cloud chamber...My brain is in fire :-)

• Continue educational projects that began in February.

Books finished this month:

• The world of  Elementary Particles (Kenneth W. Ford).

• Neutron Optics (Hughes). 

Certification in progress and MOOC:

• Stanford University: Certificat in Foundations of Data Science (part 1).

• MOOC "Au cœur de la radioactivité médicale"  ("At the heart of medical radioactivity").

February 2019

Projects:

• CERN/Fondation La main à la pâte: Write and prepare a science popularization work for adolescents (modeling subatomic world).

• Project to show the impact of the consequences of nuclear radiation, pollution and Cosmic rays/neutron radiation in Space on plants and different ecosystems (Russia, Polynesia, International Space Station etc.) with irradiated seeds, polluted seeds and seeds from I.S.S.. With DNA extract to see the mutations. Portfolio in preparation.

• Digital volunteer for the transcription center of the Smithsonian Institution:  Project PHaEDRA (“Preserving Harvard’s Early Data and Research in Astronomy”). Harvard College Observatory is now the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I help to transcribe the first data of the Harvard College Observatory’s women computers (paleography, Python language). Transcription will be full-text searchable on the NASA Astrophysics Data System and DASCH/Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard. During this time, 1900-1920, early Women computer worked on 500.000 glass plate photos and 2.500 logbooks/notebooks.  

Experiences 1,2,3 :

I tested Bubble detector to calculate the neutron radiation in my city (explications soon), start a Cosmic Ray Observatory and make some activities with teenagers about the atomic world. 

Experience 4: 

So this month I tested the culture of microbes/bacteries in Petri dishes. They feed on agar agar (if you are vegan you know what it is), but honestly I don't find the same poetry there as for the atomic and subatomic world ...

Experience 5: 

I started to build some laser microscope, tunneling electron microscope etc. More details in March or April :-) #DIY #SoFun

Books and MOOC finished this month: 

• Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics. The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (Richard Feynman & Steven Weinberg)

• French MOOC: Des particules aux étoiles (from Particules to Stars)

• Particle Physics: A graphic guide (Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh)

• Collège de France : Leçon inaugurale de Jean-Francois Joanny, Matière molle et biophysique.

Movie:

• Japanese manga: Akira