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How do you scientists come up with wacky scaling comparisons?
Stacked to reach beyond the moon. 30 times the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb. The weight of 2 SUVs on a postage stamp. These are only a few of the offbeat similes that scientists love to use in comparison to their work. But to anyone who has been published in a scientific journal, I…
Y’All Write 2026
I scheduled this blog post well in advance, because I’m saving up all my creative energy for Y’All Write this month! If you ever heard about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, a writing challenge where you create a novel in 30 days), Y’All Write is basically the same thing. Only it takes place during a…
Iran, Poetry, and You
If you’re only hearing about Iran in relation to US-Israeli strikes, that’s by design. January in Iran saw “one of the most extreme Internet shutdowns in history” as the country cut off Internet access for its citizens. It appears the reason for this shutdown was to cover up the mass murder of civilians following the…
What happens when you stop hating your old work?
Forgive me reader, for I have sinned: it’s been years since I’ve felt shame about my old writing.
A conversation with Donna Birdwell
Last October, I hosted an interview with Donna Birdwell, a fellow writer and critique group partner, at Austin’s Reverie Books. We talked about her latest novel, The Disenchantment of Narcissa Tarver, as well as dehumanization, data analysis, and the illegal actions she took in the name of research. We also read the first chapter of…
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