Archive - Wild Information

When Animals Dream

A conversation about animal dreaming with philosopher David M. Peña-Guzmán.

Mar 17 •

Claire L. Evans

February 2024

Brighter Than a Cloud

How to describe a scintillating scotoma? It’s one of the most common symptoms of a migraine, but unless you’ve had one, it sounds unreal. A…

Feb 18 •

Claire L. Evans

Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman?

A few months ago I wrote a newsletter about lucid dreaming. After a night of uncharacteristic sleep deprivation, I’d experienced a visceral flying…

Feb 2 •

Claire L. Evans

December 2023

The Time of Big Walking

Happy New Year, everyone. I write this brief reflection to you from my in-laws’ home in Vaasa, Finland. This close to the Arctic circle, the sun rises a…

Dec 31, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

November 2023

Living in a Lucid Dream

I had an early flight, so I went to bed long before I was tired. But it doesn’t matter—I never sleep when I know an alarm will wake me before sunrise. I…

Nov 30, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

A late-spooky season admission: I’ve always been a little bit afraid of trees. I blame Algernon Blackwood. I read his 1912 story, The Man Whom The Trees…

Nov 12, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

October 2023

To Boldly Go Down The Hall

On Robert Irwin, Star Trek, and the infinite hallways of the future.

Oct 26, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

Big Duck Energy

The duck of Vaucanson was 800 articulated pieces of gilded copper that could eat, quack, and splash. During public displays, it ate from a dish of…

Oct 15, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

All Things Great and Small

Many years ago I attended a star party at a remote observatory in the mountains of West Texas. An astronomer stationed at a telescope pointing towards a…

Oct 1, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

March 2023

There's Nothing Unnatural About A Computer

A conversation with James Bridle for Grow.

Mar 17, 2023 •

Claire L. Evans

October 2022

Towards Growing Peaches Online

This essay about the late architect Christopher Alexander, software patterns, and Parisian peach orchards was published late last year on an online…

Oct 8, 2022 •

Claire L. Evans

September 2022

Intimate Geographies

On attending to the big and small at once—seeing both the vastness of the Redwoods and the microscopic universe within a pot of miso.

Sep 19, 2022 •

Claire L. Evans

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