About Science Me
Oh. Hello.
My name is Rebecca, or Becky, or Bec, or Brrrkakaka if you just like making silly noises. I'm a writer in New Zealand, the land of zeal. By day, I write non-fiction like the stuff you see here; by night, I beaver away at science fiction when everyone else thinks I'm masturbating (joke's on them).
I started my writing career in 2005 as a financial journalist in London, my port of origin. After migrating to Auckland, I created my first website, World of Lucid Dreaming. It was drawing 4 million users a year when I stopped work to have a baby, whom we unironically named Fox, and endured a brief four-year bout with PPD.
I also started the website Sheltie Planet which came to top its niche (if you think the global industrial Shetland Sheepdog complex is small, think again). In 2016, I sold WOLD to new management, created Science Me, and started a Zoology degree for the evolution. Later, as the courses honed in on specifics like tapeworm anatomy, I switched to a Biology major for the genetics; the great-granddaughter of evolution.
After that I had a daughter named Kea and spent some time with PPD lite. This year I finished a comedy sci-fi screenplay called Parallel, about a night janitor at a physics lab who travels to a parallel universe and steals his best life as a Hollywood action star. Given how hard it is to get a movie produced, I'll just upload it on Science Me so at least some of my Superfans can enjoy a giggle.
At home, I'm a whimsical 41-year-old child who draws, plays piano, argues at chess puzzles, makes amigurumi, and keeps a Pomeranian named Rosie. Fox and Kea are at the center of my universe and are the funniest, most scrobliest people I know. Their Dad, Pete, is a multi-talented literal giant who created the video game, Battlecruisers.
Hey, I just had a great idea! You should click this link and see where it leads! I'm also delighted if you want to follow me down the street online with these buttons:
How Do Jellyfish Have Sex?
Jellyfish mastered sex long before us. Frankly, we're the ones odd-balling it with our penises, vaginas, and miserable childbirth.
What is Schrodinger's Cat?
Schrodinger's Cat is a hypothetical thought experiment created in 1935 by a brilliant man who loved quantum physics and hated cats.
How Does Gene Therapy Work?
Gene therapy is a brilliant and terrifying emerging technology that uses viruses to deliver DNA payloads to faulty body cells to restore their function.
How Does ChatGPT Work?
ChatGPT is a Large Language Model that uses machine learning to do some very clever things that will not literally blow your socks off.
Neuralink and You
A Link is a coin-sized panel of microchips, a battery, and 3,000 electrodes along hair-thin neural threads. And it goes inside your skull.
The Life of Isaac Asimov
Asimov's Nightfall is an archetypal social science fiction, moving away from gadgets and towards exploration of the human condition.
How Does DNA Work?
DNA isn't just a blueprint for embryos; you're expressing your DNA right now all around your body as if you have a clue what you're doing.
Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think
Dogs have greater social intelligence than our closest primate cousins, thanks entirely to living symbiotically with humans for 40,000 years.
12 Rules for Life Illustrated
12 Rules for Life is a psychological manifesto from a man who's making a giant existential omelette and breaking more than a few eggs in the process.
The Biology of Depression
Sapolsky says depression is a biochemical disorder with genetic and experiential influences which means you can't enjoy sunsets anymore.