Leslie Fink

National Science Foundation

Latest articles by Leslie Fink

Roger Dingledine, computer scientist

Surfing the Web: Protecting Identities Online

By Leslie Fink published

Roger Dingledine developed and runs a worldwide network to keep Internet users anonymous.

Internet
Economics researcher Donna Ginther explores why so few women occupy senior research posts.

What Holds Back Women Research Faculty?

By Leslie Fink published

Economics researcher Donna Ginther explores why so few women occupy senior research posts.

Human Behavior
A penchant for the real thing led visual effects chief Dan Glass to ask science visualization experts to create this image of a supernova, used in "The Tree of Life," from real modeling data generated on a supercomputer.

Movie Packs Virtual Birth of Universe into Mere Minutes

By Leslie Fink published

'Tree of Life' is a powerful science lesson.

Cosmology
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Horror Movies: Why People Love Them

By Leslie Fink published

If horror movies scare us so much, why do we watch them?

Human Behavior