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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 26, 2007
Category: Earth
In our increasingly worldaround world, it is a rare, if not obsolete, occurrence for two wildly disparate and equally sophisticated cultures to meet for the first time. That's probably for the best, of course, because when it did happen...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:29 AM • 1 Comments •
December 19, 2007
Category: Space
The search for a Theory of Everything, which is kind of the unofficial M.O. of the scientific establishment, has always been closely guarded. The elements of profound uncertainty involved with such a quest have always primly clipped, safe from...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 3:00 PM • 5 Comments •
December 11, 2007
Category: Earth
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY,ARTHUR C. CLARKE! I'm personally indebted to Mr. Clarke for so many reasons: his profound optimism, particularly about our race as a unified system and our inevitable future contact with extraterrestrial life, has bolstered my ability to think...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:12 AM • 2 Comments •
December 5, 2007
Category: Earth
I'm surprised that I haven't come across this before: a Google-maps rendering of UFO sightings in the US, dynamically updated as-it-happens. Preliminary perusal seems to indicate that UFOs tend to stay away from the landlocked mountains, preferring to pop...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 10:18 AM • 5 Comments •
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