About Michael RicciardiMichael Ricciardi is a well-published writer of science/nature/technology articles and essays, poetry and short fiction. Michael has interviewed dozen of scientists from many scientific fields, including Brain Greene, Paul Steinhardt, and Nobel Laureate Ilya Progogine (deceased).
Michael was trained as a naturalist and taught ecology and natural science on Cape Cod, Mass. from 1986-1991. His first arts grant was for production of the environmental (video) documentary 'The Jones River - A Natural History', 1987-88 (Kingston, Mass.).
Michael is also an award winning, internationally screened video artist, tech/concept/art designer, and multiple arts grant recipient. Two of his more recent short videos; 'A Time of Water Bountiful' (an eco-prophetic autobiography) and 'My Name is HAM' (an "imagined memoir" about the first chimp in space), and several other short videos, can be viewed on his website (http://www.chaosmosis.net).
Michael currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
we too were nomadic only 10,000 years ago, some of us a lot more recently than that… it works.