by Shane L. Larson Humans have looked at the sky for as long as we have inhabited our small, planetary home. For 40,000 generations we have basked in the warmth of our mother the Sun, watched the...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2024/04/12/chasing-an-evanescent-cosmos/
by Shane L. Larson In a 2012 article in Esquire, the inimitable American magician Teller noted, “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonabl...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/an-ephemeral-whisper-in-the-cosmic-dark/
by Shane L. Larson Friends and family who travel around with me know I have a fatal weakness for one of the most ephemeral manifestations of the human brain: museums. Museums ostensibly exist for...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/the-hardest-thing-about-science-ii-nouns-verbs/
by Shane L. Larson One of the “features” of the modern world is memes percolating through our social media feeds, online browsing, and texts from friends. Sometimes these memes are humorous i...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2023/01/03/the-hardest-thing-about-science-i-language/
by Shane L. Larson The inimitable Mary Fahl has a remarkable song that I listen to all the time, especially on days when it seems impossible that the world has not totally fallen apart. It is a s...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2022/06/06/everythings-gonna-be-alright/
by Shane L. Larson Over the millions of years that natural selection produced modern humans, countless traits were selected becasue they were somehow advantageous to our suvival. Ultimately, some...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/pandemic-03-survivability-traits/
by Shane L. Larson Let’s talk about “numeracy” — to be clear, I define this to be the ability to use and understand numbers and data. It is similar to “literacy” but related to quanti...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/pandemic-02-numeracy-and-data/
by Shane L. Larson For many of us, we have not been under the tutelage or mentoring of someone in in a learning environment for a long time. Classrooms were a regular part of our lives years if n...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/pandemic-01-learning-in-a-time-of-crisis/
Note to my Readers: The last time I posted, we were discussing Antarctica; I have more to say about that, and it is not disconnected from issues surrounding human activity on this planet, but cur...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2020/06/08/the-work-to-be-done/
by Shane L. Larson We are homeward bound from Antarctica, back in the travel pipeline, back in the bustle of everyday human life. As the sights, and sounds, and silence, and color, and light filt...
https://writescience.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/antarctica-02-every-time-you-turn-around/