Often I find focus groups annoyingly inconclusive, but this time the result was unambiguous: they loved it.
Most historical accounts that I find focus on my ancestors' historical 'bootstrap' story – they came to this 'savage land' and brought much good and industry and became the backbone of American mythology, etc.
When I visited the career center, I found it focused primarily on the undergraduates.
A few books I've found focus on big projects--designing laboratory buildings from the ground up--but aside from those Next Wave articles, that's about it.
How to talk to our kids is paramount, but I found myself focused on a different side of the question: how not to.
In a darkened room at Nasa's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland, I found a focused team of men and women, engrossed in their daily task of taking the pulse of the planet's most celebrated science instrument: the Hubble space telescope.
I found myself focused in particular on the experience of young people during that time, tried to imagine my own children, if they had seen me go out the door that morning and never return.
I found myself focused less on the technical achievement of reaching the moon and more on the decision making, as if I were a journalist covering the Apollo program in 1969.
After a professional career of worrying about data centers requiring power sufficient to supply 20,000 people, I found myself focused on 20 watts of lighting to extend the school day, because once the sun goes down, the only light is from campfires.
The exercises I found therein focused on speech sounds and articulation.
