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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.
July 27, 2006
Category: Earth
"It is to be remembered that despite the fact that you are accustomed to thinking only in dots and lines and a little bit in areas does not defeat the fact that we live in omnidirectional space-time and that a...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 2:16 PM • 3 Comments •
July 23, 2006
Category: Earth
This is upsetting. NASA has deleted from its mission statement the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet." This edit was made in conjunction with the Bush administration's new Vision for Space Exploration, whose primary objective is to shift...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:37 AM • 2 Comments •
July 21, 2006
Category: Earth
Every day, under our noses, obsolete scientific ideas run rampant. I'm not talking about the maddening sabotage of science constantly perpetuated by ideological conservatives -- that, although a daily frustration, is not unnoticed. This is a transgression that we...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 5:47 PM • 5 Comments •
July 12, 2006
Category: Space
The second in a two-part distillation of a cover story about NASA, politics, and the new power generation that I just finished for the LA Alternative. To get up to speed, see the previous entry. The CEV -- Ares, or...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:47 PM • 2 Comments •
July 10, 2006
Category: Space
The following is the first in a two-part distillation of a cover story about NASA, politics, and the new power generation that I just finished for the LA Alternative. From this surreal atmosphere, as close to the belt of the...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 3:01 PM • 3 Comments •
July 4, 2006
Category: Technology
The history of information -- which is to say, the history of everything -- is littered with codes. Some are cryptic, designed to be understood by only a few, while others are made to be cracked. Numbers, for example,...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:23 AM • 10 Comments •
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