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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.
March 27, 2007
Category: Human
Welcome to the second in an ongoing series of Interviews with authors of Science Fiction. I'm lucky to have had a chance, recently, to review Portland local Thomas A. Day's A Grey Moon Over China, a totally postapocalyptic epic...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 10:35 AM • 0 Comments •
March 24, 2007
Category: Mathematics
Here's a beautifully esoteric piece of math news: a team of mathematicians has meticulously explored and completely mapped a hitherto-unknown 248-dimensional structure, called E8. The E8 is an example of a Lie Group, which represent the best developed theory...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 4:40 PM • 0 Comments •
March 7, 2007
Category: Human
Followers of this web-rag know well that Universe was once a bi-weekly print column in the now-defunct LA Alternative. The intertextuality of it all -- blog, paper, and the interactions between the both -- was a lot of fun,...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:34 AM • 5 Comments •
March 6, 2007
Category: Human
Did you know that the geodesic dome is the only man-made structure (apart from, maybe, a "spirit vibe") that gets proportionally stronger as it increases in size? Truth: of all known structures made out of linear elements, a geodesic dome...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 7:40 PM • 9 Comments •
March 4, 2007
Category: Human
The French have a Internet neologism that I particularly like, "Internautes," which of course is a sort of digital traveler, an Astronaut of the web. If any word is more fitting for this blog's readership, I don't what it is....
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 6:13 PM • 6 Comments •
