The Complete Science Frictions

A blog about science 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.

• Till We Meet Again
• How Mauve Was Her Garment
• Saturn
• Darwin’s Finches
• Our Artful Brain
• How Flowers Changed the World
• 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