Booklist gives my Nervous System book a starred review!

<p>A lost girl returns to share navigation tips and tricks that help kids stay found in new survival skills book!</p>

<p>What does the U.S. government know about UFOs? The answer will astound you.</p>

<p>Finally, a book that teaches kids how to start a club that fuels their passion. For youngsters who love robots, this book is the ideal guide for getting involved in a robotics club!</p>

<p>Tanned. Chiseled. Rock-hard contours and muscles. What do you expect after a month outdoors?</p>

<p>Come see where the rocks captured lightning.</p>

<p>This week, the robots whisk you away to one of my favorite, secret, desert wonderlands.</p>

<p>Enjoy glimpses into Grand Mesa and Steamboat Springs, #Colorado.</p>

<p>I&#8217;ve put the robots in charge while I&#8217;m away. See what treats they&#8217;ve lined up to delight you. </p>

<p>Last night, I attended a virtual rally. Here&#8217;s what I learned. </p>

<p>The challenge: 105,000 spoken words. 110 unique voices. Can I pull it off?</p>

<p>Advice from a trucker drove me to do something crazy, risky, and rewarding.</p>

<p>The request came late November. A children&#8217;s book packager reached out asking if I had to time outline, right, and research 6 nonfiction books. Oh, and by the by, could I get those done in 6 weeks? It was grueling work. I rose around 5am every morning. I worked until my various day jobs required&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2020/02/20/write-like-you-run/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Write Like You&nbsp;Run</span></a>

<p>“It must have been my lucky day,” Lakpa Sherpa says, encapsulating the miracle his family performed to secure his exit from Nepal during its recent, bloody civil war. Beginning in the mid-1990s, a Maoist communist insurgency faction fought to topple Nepal’s 240-year-old monarchy. Most members of the royal family were massacred and the ensuing decade-long&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/11/14/lakpas-lucky-day/">Continue reading <span class="sc

<p>This Saturday, July 20, 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The feat cemented humankind&#8217;s toehold on the final frontier&#8217;s doorstep. In the coming year, engineers and scientists are poised to establish a permanently inhabited base on the lunar surface. From this launch pad, cosmic explorers and entrepreneurs hope to dive&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/07/16/beyawned-earth-pillownauts-by-jennifer-mason/">

<p>I am so pleased to announce that Mountain Flyer&#8216;s Issue No. 61 features my in-depth profile on the teens whose lives have cycled from average to amazing thanks to mountain biking. &#8220;Choose Your Challenge: Durango Devo&#8217;s Winning Formula&#8221; trails a wildly popular local 501c3 organization in my community that gets young people ell beyond their&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/06/20/choose-your-challenge-by-jennifer-mason/">C

<p>How hard could it be to teach yourself to build and program a robotic arm that receives instructions from your thoughts? If you&#8217;re a bored sixteen-year-old like Easton LaChappelle, the answer is: sorta not hard at all. Easton grew up rather isolated in Colorado&#8217;s Four Corners region&#8211;down the road from where I live now. All&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/02/20/the-limber-inventor-by-jennifer-mason/">Continue reading <span cl

<p>&#8220;If music be the food of love, play on,&#8221; says Duke Orsino at the opening of Shakespeare&#8217;s comedy, Twelfth Night. He goes on to request his musicians give him such an excess of music that he may kill his appetite for it entirely. And with it, his yearning for Olivia, the woman who does not&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/02/04/aphrodite-after-therapy/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Aphrodite After Therapy<

<p>We know what happens when entire nations cannot stymie their collective fears. We know what happens when whole civilizations select a scapegoat for inexplicable suffering. History maps these trends. Throughout the Myths Across the Map series (now available through Gareth Stevens Publishing), I chronicled 4 of the 6 major global myths. I tracked down the&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2018/05/10/myths-across-the-map-by-jennifer-mason/">Continue re

<p>Can we convince young people to enjoy failure as much as they enjoy play? Can we teach them that the two are inseparable travel-mates on the path to success? “Pick Up Sticks: How One Toy Became a Space-Exploration Robot”—my latest article appearing in the April 2018 issue of Muse—confronts these very questions. Like all scientists,&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2018/04/12/pick-up-sticks-turn-toys-into-robots-by-jennifer-mason/">Continue reading