Skip to main content
Wendy Schmidt on Muck Rack

Wendy Schmidt

As seen in: Medium, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Guardian, TIME, Time CO2 Futures, USA Today, Aol, Los Angeles Times, Fortune and
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Wendy

Contact Wendy, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Wendy Schmidt: Three centuries of science is something to celebrate

|
By Wendy Schmidt
| Yahoo Verified
Three centuries of science is something to celebrate George Washington died at the age of 67 not knowing that dinosaurs ever existed. In 1799, our country's first president was suffering from a sore throat, likely the result of a simple bacterial infection. Washington's doctors selected a treatment that we now know contributed to his death: bloodletting. As the semiquincentennial of our country arrives, it is worth considering how far we've come, even if we have a long way to go.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (5) Issue with article?

You’ve heard from my husband, Eric Schmidt, about AI. Now here’s my take

|
By Wendy Schmidt
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
AI is everywhere, from search engines to text messages to dating profiles to homework; every word we tap prompts an AI to guess our intent. It’s no wonder then that the mention of it can inspire its own automatic response: Graduates nationwide have been booing their commencement speakers, including my husband, former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, last month at the University of Arizona.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Comment | Art and science rely on freedom of thought-and on each other

|
By Wendy Schmidt, Wendy Schmidt
| The Art Newspaper Verified
Last summer, a scientist answered a question that many of us may have mused on: why are birds so colourful? In a study supported in part by our grant-making organisation, Schmidt Sciences, birds were found to have evolved to accentuate their brightly coloured feathers via a layer of white and black feathers underneath. As the study notes, this is exactly the technique used by painters for centuries.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 39 licensed articles (54 Total)