Browsing Category Science

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  Black Hole Beheld

    Image: “Black Hole Image Makes History” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Photostream, licensed under CC 2.0.   Michael Leach: I was inspired to write the poem ‘Black ...

  On August 30, 2020 / By Michael Leach
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  Reciprocal Identities

  I admit a degree of relief that my youngest daughter is so different from me. My bookshelves are lined with novels and two editions of The Norton Anthology ...

  On July 26, 2020 / By Andrea Caswell
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  Up Close

  A dandelion’s fruiting head a jeweled amphora. Spinach tissue’s blue mosaic, too beautiful to eat. Stomata dot the skin of trillium like points on a map, what’s laid ...

  On May 31, 2020 / By Jennifer Markell
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  Chance that Mimics Choice

  How is anything radically new ever created in nature? Is it true, as some scientists say, that everything under the sun is just a different arrangement of the ...

  On May 6, 2020 / By V.N. Alexander
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  Our Lies Are Our Fondest Hopes–And Science Will Destroy Them (That’s a Good Thing!)

  I never liked science. Numbers are boring. I never was this nerd guy, doing the math, imagining algorithms, checking things in a laboratory… I studied science only because ...

  On November 13, 2018 / By Benoit Rey
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  Political Machines

  I recently caught up with the teaching assistant for an undergraduate humanities course I took years ago, that helped inspire my subsequent studies.  I told him that everything ...

  On November 13, 2018 / By Alex Ahmed