Ryan Olson
multimedia guru

For those who may be interested, Ryan Olson has written about bull riding. Arts and entertainment editors of college newspapers don’t get free concert, movie, or game tickets, so they are always looking for creative story ideas. Going to college in Colorado Springs means easy access to, of all things, the pro rodeo hall of fame. While not widely circulated, Ryan is in fact familiar with the story of Casey Tibbs, a world champion bull rider, and Necktie, a famed bucking horse. After graduation Ryan spent a year working for a newspaper industry trade magazine before a thirst for adventure and additional student loans took him to Boston. Initially confused by the presence of water, a lack of mountains and a new way of pronouncing the letter r, he pulled himself together and has since written articles on technology like speech recognition and Bluetooth. Ryan spent the summer of 2004 interning at the Harvard Health Letter, where he wrote about a new surgical procedure called deep brain stimulation, the neurological disorder essential tremor, and social cues involved in overeating. He hopes to continue writing about science and technology, but the days of writing about rodeo are likely confined to the history books.

in resonance:

Bluejack City
An emerging cell phone technology may let people contact you, whether you like it or not.
Finding meaning behind the words
Computer science and linguistics converge in a quest to design better speech recognition software.
Algae clean the air
Dr. Isaac Berzin has found a way to use algae to consume large amounts of the gases released by large polluters like power plants.
Beetlemania
Harvard scientists are sharing the thousands of dried beetles, butterflies, and other insects in their collection with researchers around the world – using the Internet.

Contact Ryan at r.c.olson@gmail.com