Nameless Company now Big Time Science

Tim Ericson of eeps.com and I decided on a name for the new company receiving an NSF SBIR grant (which he won). We chose Big Time Science (for kids). Our former project officer, Sally Nerlove, commented that naming a company is difficult. You would like to call it something like the gritty, delicious stuff you scrape from the bottom of a pan, which had a name in Bantu she learned while in the Peace Corps in Africa. Our intent is to give kids a real experience of the Nature of Science on a scale that reveals the essence of participating in a scientific community looking at a common data set and writing about it from the empirical perspective of many researchers, each of whom has a partial view. Our next step is to move the kids' tools for writing about science online so we can share them with you all. Stay tuned.