Science Frictions
A blog about science with posts each Wednesday by Priscilla Long, the author of The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. Her essay “Genome Tome,” which appeared in our Summer 2005 issue, won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
Previous posts
- My Father
- Those Other Ancestors
- Our National Raptor
- Visit to a Small, Cold Planet
- Ode to (Silent) Spring
- Where There’s a Will …
- Big as a VW, or Lost on a Pin
- Enchantment and Deception
- Behold the Butterfly
- I’m Going Native
- Please Pass the Salt
- A Great Event
- The Higgs Boson
- The Bad and the Beautiful
- Science: Why Bother?
- Dark and Stormy Month
- My Formerly Identical Twin
- Toilet Talk, Part 2
- Herschel and the Steelheads
- Dabbling in Darwin
- Galileo’s Spyglass
- Science v. Poetry
- Toilet Talk, Part 1
- Jupiter and the Galilean Satellites
- Elephant: Not an Elegy
- Black Holes
- Valles Caldera
- Blood Lines
- Geology My Way
- Let It Shine
- My Kingdom for a Horse
- The Lay of the Land
- They Work Hard for their Honey
- Wake to Sleep
- Venus
- Here, Kitty Kitty
- Remembering Steve
- Waste Not
- Ants in Your Pants
- Bugs’ Eyes and Our Eyes
- My Week in the Woods
- Nocturne
- Going Viral
- Doug-Fir Days
- Go Team!
- Crow
- Head in Clouds
- Poseidon’s Revenge
- Reading Minds
- Remembering Abraham Lincoln
- Farmers and Their Farms
- Arachne’s Cobweb
- Dream On
- Creation Story
- Looking Up and Down
- Mars on My Mind
- Time to Milk the Cows
- Our Mastodon
- A Bug Is Not a Beetle
- Brilliant Old Brains
- Life Among the Weeds
- Blue Notes
- Note to Fellow … Life Cycle
- Tunnel Work
- Tetélestai
- Toba
- Alone and Freezing Cold
- Life
- Habitat Me
- Oxygen
- Elementary, My Dear …
- Family Matters
- Fungus, Fried
- Our Red Giant
- The Book of Life, Hard Copy
- What Do Worms Want?
- Ocean
- Dogs and Us
- Beauty and the Blue Bottle Fly
- Small Is Beautiful
- Coal Is a Rock That Burns
- When Bugs Were Bigger
- Endless Arms Most Beautiful
- The Red Room
- The Moon
- Our Life’s Purpose
