We live in a time of uncertainty, fear, and ignorance about the problems facing society, nations, and the planet. We live in a time of instantaneous communication, often leading to distrust, polarization, and superficiality. Science – and especially its derived technologies – has given us immense powers to cause physical and psychological change, destruction, chaos, and even self-annihilation.  Single individuals can now wield immense power, be it for terrorism, ideology, or personal gain. We no longer have societally-sanctioned rites of passage for citizens, such as the Eleusinian rites practiced in ancient Greece. We constrain and often condemn… Read more: The Kids Know – We Live in a Dystopia

Press Release  — for immediate release Institute for Biological Engineering 2017 Annual Conference Salt Palace and Downtown Marriott, Salt Lake City, Utah  Mar. 30 – April 1, 2017 Biological Engineers Urged to confront Ignorance, BS, and Lies Biological engineers are being urged to combat ignorance, BS, and outright lies at their annual meeting this week in Salt Lake City. The 17th annual conference is at the downtown Marriott Hotel and Salt Palace Convention Center Thursday through Saturday, April 1. One of the keynote speakers is Joseph Andrade, a University of Utah Distinguished Professor of Engineering, and a… Read more: Andrade Keynote Address Press Release: IBE 2017 conference:

Reviewed by D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer Midwest Book Review (Aug., 2016)   State Change – A Chemical Fantasy Joe Andrade Andrade Self-Publishing 978-1-4951-9851-9 Price: $0.00 (Free) – only available online. Bound book copies available from author, for free, to qualified reviewers and libraries. Website: www.statechange.us   Novels typically do not contain manifestos – but State Change incorporates both. In a future world gone mad (a world akin to our own), the very boundaries of social and political process are tested as humanity’s trials and errors demand that traditional leadership be rebuilt and replaced.   But how do… Read more: Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan, Aug., 2016

Book Review Press Release (for immediate release) State Change – A Chemical Fantasy By Joe Andrade 491 pp. Andrade Self-Publishing Free at www.statechange.us An ‘interview’ with the author:   Academic Activist Advocates Illegal Politics   ‘We cannot elect mental adolescents to public office,’ says Joe Andrade, author of a provocative new novel State Change – A Chemical Fantasy. He corrects me: “It’s a semi-novel. Two thirds of it is fact.” Andrade is a University of Utah retired engineering professor – now involved in local and national politics. I ask – What do you mean by mental adolescents?… Read more: Author Fake Interview – Book Review