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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.
July 29, 2010
Category: Art
Earlier this year, I received a charming email from a pair of Helsinki-based artists and designers who work under the name of OK DO. OK DO is a socially-minded design think tank and online publication; they dug Universe and...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 8:21 PM • 8 Comments •
July 19, 2010
Category: Design
My grandmother suffered in her old age from macular degeneration, a common age-related eye disease that causes the center of your visual field (the macula) to gradually fritz out. As it affected her more and more, the font size...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 6:00 PM • 6 Comments •
July 5, 2010
Category: Human
Readers, help me sort out an egregious detail of astronomical lore. The most common method of classifying stars -- Harvard Spectral Classification -- was thought up by one of the most famous female astronomers of all time, Annie Jump...
Posted by Claire L. Evans at 11:30 AM • 28 Comments •
