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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.
April 21, 2009
Category: Design
In 1976, NASA Administrator James Fletcher noted that "The question, 'What is feasible?' can be finally answered only by future historians." He was talking about the elaborate plans for space habitats the agency had spent a summer noodling over,...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 3:00 PM • 6 Comments •
April 12, 2009
Category: Human
Universe has a firm "No Skepticism" policy. Don't get me wrong, I dig empirical knowledge. And I like the ancient, Pyrrhonian school of Skepticism founded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.); Pyrrhonian skeptics believed that nothing could be known,...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 9:00 PM • 17 Comments •
