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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.
June 22, 2010
Category: Art
I believe the world is a complex phenomenological experience that can be explained, rationalized, and lived in myriad different ways. The way I see it, we all begin with the same fundamental mystery -- why are we here? what...
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June 18, 2010
Category: Happenings
Last week, fresh off the fourth-to-last Shuttle mission, STS-131, NASA astronaut Jim Dutton came to speak at OMSI, my local science museum. When I got the email about this event, I RSVPed immediately -- after all, an astronaut in...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 3:00 AM • 5 Comments •
June 10, 2010
Category: Human
If it has always been your fantasy to send your physical likeness out into the cosmos, now is your time! To commemorate the final two Shuttle missions, NASA has created a bonkers "Face in Space" initiative, which allows you...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 1:29 PM • 5 Comments •
June 3, 2010
Category: Biology
What do these three quotations have in common? Hint: it lives in a petri dish. "To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, and to recreate life out of life." -- James Joyce "What I cannot build, I cannot...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 4:00 PM • 2 Comments •
June 1, 2010
Category: Human
As NASA's Space Shuttle program winds down -- Endeavour's final mission is slated for later this year, then that's it -- let us take a moment and remember the Shuttles. Sure, they had a tendency to explode into balls of...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 2:30 PM • 4 Comments •
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