Betsy Devine
{{short description|American journalist}}
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| name = Betsy Devine
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| caption = Betsy Devine at BlogHer 2006 in San Jose, California.
| birthname = Elizabeth Devine
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1946}}
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| alma_mater = Princeton University
| occupation = author, blogger
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| spouse = Frank Wilczek
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| credits = Longing for the Harmonies, Fantastic Realities, Absolute Zero Gravity
| URL = http://betsydevine.com/blog/
}}
Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including Longing for the Harmonies (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and of Absolute Zero Gravity (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen. She is a Wikipedian and spoke at Wikimania in 2006.
Biography
Devine earned a master's degree in engineering from Princeton University.{{Cite web |url=https://www.edge.org/memberbio/betsy_devine |title=Betsy Devine: Journalist, Author, Blogger |work=Edge.org |quote=She earned a master's degree in engineering from Princeton. |access-date=October 22, 2018}}
Devine has had, according to her self-description, "many years of immersion in geek sociology, including both Slashdot and Wikipedia flame wars".{{cite web|url=http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presenters/Betsy_Devine|title=Presenters/Betsy Devine|work=wikimedia.org|access-date=March 17, 2016}} She is co-author, with husband Frank Wilczek, of Longing for the Harmonies, an appreciation of modern physics;{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/14/books/the-never-ending-hum-of-the-universe.html | work=The New York Times | title=The Never-Ending Hum of the Universe | first1=David | last1=Perlman | date=February 14, 1988 | access-date=26 April 2010 }} and also, with biologist Joel E. Cohen, of Absolute Zero Gravity, a collection of science jokes, poems, and stories.{{cite journal | author = The Scientist Staff | year = 1993 | title = Notebook | journal = The Scientist | format = early event blog | issue = 11 January | url = http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/16911/title/Notebook/ | access-date = 17 March 2016 }} About 75 pages taken from her blog were included as "a contribution" to a collection of essays written by Frank Wilczek on various aspects of physics, Fantastic Realities.{{cite journal |author=Berry, Michael |date=24 August 2006 |title=A Walk in a Quantum World: Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm, by Frank Wilczek |journal=Nature |type=book review |volume=442 |issue=870 |page=870 |doi=10.1038/442870a |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal | author = Durrani, Matin | year = 2006 | title = Forget about quarks, read my wife's blog | journal = Times Higher Education | format = book review | issue = 15 September | url = http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/forget-about-quarks-read-my-wifes-blog/205365.article | access-date = 17 March 2016 }}
Devine spoke at Wikimania in 2006.
Selected works
- {{cite book|ref=none
| last = Devine
| first = Betsy
| author2 = Frank Wilczek
| title = Longing for the Harmonies
| publisher = W. W. Norton & Company
| year = 1988
| isbn = 978-0-393-02482-1
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/longingforharmon00wilc
}}
- {{cite book|ref=none
| last = Devine
| first = Betsy
| author2 = Joel E. Cohen
| title = Absolute Zero Gravity: Science Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes
| publisher = Fireside
| date = December 1992
| isbn = 978-0-671-74060-3
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/absolutezerograv00devi
}}
- {{cite book|ref=none
| last = Devine
| first = Betsy
| author2=Frank Wilczek
| title = Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys And a Trip to Stockholm
| publisher = World Scientific Publishing Company
| date=June 2006
| isbn = 978-981-256-649-2 }}
References
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External links
- [http://betsydevine.com/blog/ Now with Even More Funny Ha-Ha and Peculiar]—Betsy's blog
- [http://www.sandhilltech.com/weblog/blogger.html/categories/profilesAndInterviews/2003/06/12.html#a568 2003 interview with Frank Paynter]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041010081105/http://steverubel.typepad.com/micropersuasion/2004/05/a_bloggerside_c.html 2004 interview with Steve Rubel] about her work for Feedster
- [http://streams.wgbh.org/morning_stories/MSPC081905.mp3 "Blogging in Boston" podcast with Tony Kahn, from "Morning Stories" show aired in 2004]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Link is to mp3 file)
- [http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/cnMay30.mp3 2005 Podcast conversation with Dave Winer] (Link is to mp3 file of 40-minute conversation)
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