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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.
January 30, 2007
Category: Space
Three incredible, little-known things about the Apollo 11 mission: 1. Although everyone knows what Neil Armstrong said as he hopped out of the landing module, I've always preferred Buzz Aldrin's elegiac phrase, "Beautiful. Beautiful. Magnificent desolation." This leads me to...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:07 AM • 5 Comments •
January 28, 2007
Category: Human
Psychic Phenomena on Vimeo I've been spending a lot of time lately with a late-70's interview with Buckminster Fuller, conducted at the end-range of his life and career by a really inspiring Los Angeles public-access television figure called Damien...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:41 PM • 22 Comments •
January 22, 2007
NOBODY. Yes, you read that correctly. Of the 57 entries submitted to the inaugural Universe/TOMS contest, not a single one was completely correct. I feel partially responsible for this! Probably it was too hard! Before I announce the compromise, let's...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 1:58 PM • 7 Comments •
January 20, 2007
Category: Human
The final day of the TOMS contest is upon us, and what a time it's been. I've had highlights (when Josh guessed "baleen"), low-lights; we've gotten a little press. There have been moments of great tension, too, as I wondered...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:00 PM • 27 Comments •
January 19, 2007
Category: Human
Day two of the TOMS contest. Many good -- nay, great -- guesses have been made. According to the rules, I can't tell you if anyone has guessed correctly yet, but this will all be revealed in due time. Maybe...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:24 AM • 10 Comments •
January 18, 2007
Category: Human
Urban Honking community, 2007 is the year of the co-brand, the year of the collaborative promotional effort. This is why Universe, the Urban Honking overlords, and (unwittingly) TOMS shoes are pooling together to present to you this shoe-giveaway contest! Why?...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:00 PM • 20 Comments •
January 15, 2007
Category: Human
Sometimes fractured energies in our planet's noosphere can throw people together who, logically, should never meet. There's no rational reason I should count among my friends the particularly reclusive, Cologne-based science fiction writer and critic Mark von Schlegell; but,...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:00 PM • 6 Comments •
