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Fear of Trees
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
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October 2023
To Boldly Go Down The Hall
On Robert Irwin, Star Trek, and the infinite hallways of the future.
Oct 26
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Claire L. Evans
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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
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Claire L. Evans
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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
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Claire L. Evans
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March 2023
There's Nothing Unnatural About A Computer
A conversation with James Bridle for Grow.
Mar 17
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Claire L. Evans
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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
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Claire L. Evans
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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
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Claire L. Evans
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December 2021
Out-of-body, out-of-office
I’ve only lost my body once. I was thirteen, four days into a weeklong trip to the East Coast with my eighth-grade class. We’d just visited the Liberty…
Dec 28, 2021
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Claire L. Evans
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November 2021
Getting a feeling for the organism
An interview with Deboleena Roy, author of Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab.
Nov 8, 2021
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Claire L. Evans
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September 2021
We all have forests in our minds
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to look at my home compost under a microscope. A soil scientist named Lynn pinched a fingerful of the fluffy, dark…
Sep 26, 2021
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April 2021
“But then people argue, what's life?”
A new paper from the team behind the world's first living robots gets into the big questions.
Apr 3, 2021
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March 2021
Old Technology and New Biology
Are they really so different?
Mar 11, 2021
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