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Claire L. Evans is a freelance science writer, science fiction critic, polymath, and musician. She has been writing Universe for five years and still doesn't know how to describe it.
December 30, 2005
Category: Animal
I'm not going to lie: this blog will rarely concern iself with Pressing Science Ethics Issues. This sort of thing -- the morality of Stem Cell Research, "Is Cloning O.K"? -- should remain where it rightly lives, which is...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 1:48 PM • 3 Comments •
December 24, 2005
Category: Earth
People might as well be trees. The only difference, sometimes, between the swathe of humans plodding across this earth and the equal amount of botanical life foliaging its way across it is a question of time. It seems to me...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:53 AM • 6 Comments •
December 19, 2005
Category: Problems
Upon my father's recommendation, I have recently picked up C.P. Snow's essay "The Two Cultures," a mild-mannered examination of the growing chasm between scientific and literary intellectual communities. Despite the fact that Snow's evident bias towards the sciences betrays his...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 10:28 AM • 9 Comments •
December 15, 2005
Category: Oceans
Enthusiasts of marine biology -- the most accessible branch of the Sciences, considering its general aesthetic -- will probably have already pounced on this news item, which has been floating along the New York Times science section for a...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:50 PM • 3 Comments •
December 14, 2005
Category: Problems
In one of the most important scenes of the original Godzilla movie, the old Professor character, a moral force throughout the film, becomes clearly upset about Godzilla's egg being sold to a corporation. Misunderstanding the older man's sadness, a cadet...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 9:40 PM • 9 Comments •
