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Flags Don’t Wave in a Vacuum; Or: NASA Reboot
Posted by Claire L. Evans on March 17, 2010 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 space on a regular basis, this is a fairly banal thing. But to those who camp…
SCIENCE FOR OBAMA
Posted by Claire L. Evans on November 6, 2008 Barack Obama’s achievement of the American presidency is significant for an endless litany of reasons, but here’s a few more. The lives that will be saved due to his support of stem cell research. All those ideological, anti-science Bush cronies that are going to be booted off scientific advisory boards. The as-yet-unknown discoveries that will…
Political Science
Posted by Claire L. Evans on February 25, 2008 As a blogger, I usually willfully delineate a giant chasm of non-communication between myself and political issues, preferring to dabble in the absolute: time, space, theoretical technological infrastructures, and, recently, aliens. I wrote one very reticent entry in 2005 about chimeric research, prefacing it with the pronouncement that “this blog will rarely concern iself with…
