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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 29, 2010
Category: Space
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served us Nine Pizzas. My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets. My Very Early Morning Jam Sandwiches Usually Nauseate People. Mon Vieux Tu M'as Jeté Sur Une Nouvelle Planète! -- Various mnemonic...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments •
March 20, 2010
Category: Human
I'm flying out to New York City on Sunday to participate in the very exciting BRAINWAVE series at the Rubin Museum of Art. BRAINWAVE, which is in its third year, brings thinkers from different disciplines to sit down with...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 1:00 AM • 2 Comments •
March 17, 2010
Category: Space
Last November, in Florida, I had the opportunity to see my first Space Shuttle launch. For the hundreds of millions of people who don't pay more than a passing notice to the fact that human beings still go into...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:00 AM • 12 Comments •
March 13, 2010
Category: Art
In his seminal 1991 essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction," the video artist Douglas Davis writes that digital bits "can be endlessly reproduced, without degradation, always the same, always perfect." This is different, Davis...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:00 PM • 6 Comments •
March 10, 2010
Category: Art
A couple of years ago, I was poking around in a European art museum and came across an exhibit of exquisitely beautiful Eastern Orthodox religious paintings, "icons." Beyond being visually striking -- they have an austere, hieratic, distant quality...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:30 PM • 7 Comments •
March 1, 2010
Category: Human
Photograph by Benjamin Reed. Ursula K. Le Guin is a internationally-recognized, award-winning science fiction writer, an elegant badass and the author of such classics as the Hugo and Nebula-award winning The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe Of Heaven,...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 10:00 AM • 27 Comments •
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