Remembering Steve
A tribute to my friend Stephen Jay Gould
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, July 3, 2013
How Mauve Was Her Garment
The effect of coal tar on Queen Victoria’s gown
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Saturn
How the sixth planet from the sun is like a rubber duck
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Darwin’s Finches
In the Galápagos, a speed course on evolution
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Those Other Ancestors
Neandertals were big, with bigger intellects than you might think
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Our National Raptor
The bald eagle makes a big impression, but its voice is small
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The Bad and the Beautiful
Botulism is deadly, but in minute quantities it smoothes wrinkles
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Science: Why Bother?
Let me (a onetime history major) count the whys
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Dark and Stormy Month
Now is the winter of our discontent, made bearable by the promise of sun
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 30, 2013
My Formerly Identical Twin
Genes are one thing, genetic switches another …
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Toilet Talk, Part 2
New technology can save water and combat killer diseases
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Herschel and the Steelheads
It’s time to bust the sea-lion party and save some Seattle salmon
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Dabbling in Darwin
The polymathic Victorian is good company on a winter’s evening
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Galileo’s Spyglass
The telescope resulted from his improvements to a mere curiosity
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Science v. Poetry
Worlds apart, and yet alike in many ways
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Toilet Talk, Part 1
More than a matter of waste not, want not
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, December 5, 2012
