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.
Remembering Abraham Lincoln - May 16, 2012
My maternal great-grandfather, Abraham Lincoln Erisman, was born in 1862, the child of a foot soldier in the Civil War.
Previous posts
- 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
