We’re pretty good at science I know, I know- scientists probably declared the Earth flat and immediately said: “We are the BEST at science”. Many scientists were and continue to be idiots, so boasting genuine progress seems hubristic. But science operates differently these days. We are vastly more capable of identifying the variables in experiments. […]
Compounds You’d be surprised: almost everything is a compound. Steel, glass, water, raccoons – all compounds. Compounds are not just piles of colourful dust or things pharmacists pretend to make while they lounge in the back so you can’t see them playing online poker. Compounds make you up and fill the world around you, and […]
I’ve always been curious about what would happen if a person went into space unprotected from the condition of ~the interstellar infinite~. ‘What happens’ has always intrigued me, and I think that learning about what it’s actually like in space has made me more curious/flabbergasted/horrified about the entire place. Sometimes I look around the […]
Science has a problem with jargon. Mostly, it’s necessary- describing our inherently complex world requires a high degree of precision. But communication around science shouldn’t be so exclusively complex. Communications is, after all, the bridging of two disparate groups, the connections across a divide. A vast bulk of research that is focused on things like […]