writings

What follows are papers, blogs, essays, poems, articles and photo journals written by Elaine Walker


ELECTRONIC MUSIC ACADEMIA

MAKING MUSIC WITH CHAOS THEORY
Chaos Melody Theory, Elaine’s Masters Thesis at NYU, 2001

MICROTONALITY RESEARCH
The Bohlen-Pierce Scale, paper for Advanced Acoustics class at NYU in 2001, and continuing research


PUBLICATIONS

SPACE.COM: A Giant Candle for Closure
May 3, 2007

THE SPACE REVIEW: A Giant Candle for Closure
May 7, 2007

SPACE.COM: THE HAUGHTON-MARS PROJECT: SUMMERTIME ON A ‘PLANET’ CLOSE TO HOME
February 8, 2005


VARIOUS BLOGS

FREE WILL, DETERMINISM, BRAINS
Report on meeting about On Intelligence, book by Jeff Hawkins | Brain Hemispheres

SPACE, ORIGINS, CHAOS, FRACTALS AND GOD
Essay Ideas | A Malleable Story of Creation (1997) | Becoming One with the Chaos Theory

LONGEVITY
Beating Death (I’ve signed up for Alcor!)

GRAMMAR PET PEEVES
There’s vs There Are | Lie vs. Lay

ROMANCE
You know a guy has one thing on his mind when.. | Top 10 ways to scare all the cute 20 to 24 year old boys away | Dear Mathematician (poem) | HayyyAAA!! Pow!! (the quest to find a man)


HUMANS IN SPACE

ELAINE'S TRIPS TO THE CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC WITH THE HAUGHTON-MARS PROJECT

Archives ----> HMP 2009 July | HMP 2008 July August | HMP 2004 July 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | HMP 2003 July

THE HAUGHTON-MARS PROJECT: SUMMERTIME ON A ‘PLANET’ CLOSE TO HOME
Read the Article for Space.com, February 8, 2005

HUMANS IN SPACE
Letter to Bill Clinton: Put Humans Back in the Space Race (1996) | Our Galactic Supervisors? (correcting misconceptions)


9/11/01 CLOSURE

ELAINE'S ACCOUNT OF 9/11/01
Includes photos taken from Elaine’s rooftop in Brooklyn. Read it here

UP AEROSPACE LAUNCH: A GIANT CANDLE FOR CLOSURE
On 9/11/01 Elaine gathered a small portion of ashes from her car windshield wiper, one mile south of Ground Zero. Six years later the ashes were launched into space. The Las Cruces Sun News wrote about it, and Space.com and The Space Review published an article I wrote, May 2007. See pictures of the launch and listen to The Space Show interview. Here's another Space.com article about the same launch, in general (unrelated to 9/11).

UP AEROSPACE PAYLOAD RETRIEVED: CAPSULE HONORING 9/11 VICTIMS ABOARD THE CELESTIS FLIGHT
The capsule containing a small portion of ashes from 9/11/01 was retrieved after the successful parabolic Up Aerospace flight. The capsule was mounted in a plaque with a launch certificate, 2007. Read about it and see pictures here. See the Las Cruces Sun News article.



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