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On Being a Naturalist paying attention as a way of life · 2026
Cosmic Scale numbers too large to mean anything, until they do · 2025
Innocence Ending on growing up and what gets left behind · 2024
The White Whale a tree fell and no one heard it · 2023
computer@code.ode a love letter to the command line · 2022
Play With Your Food in defense of messing around · 2022
Cell Tower Dystopia a current cyberpunk dystopia - if you squint · 2021
A Morning Run "...we are like butterflies..." · 2020
Hands-on Nature why the natural sciences feel like home · 2019
Your Own Path what ants know about living a good life · 2019
Fundamental Meaning pixels, consciousness, and why anything matters · 2019
Changing Your Mind in defense of science and the virtue of being wrong · 2019
My Brief Morning Walk a parking lot as cathedral · 2018
The A.I. Scare we've been afraid of this before · 2017
Nomad’s Sky No Man's Sky as a naturalist experience · 2017
Explorers and Innovators the difference between finding and inventing · 2017
The Great American Eclipse two minutes of totality changes something · 2017
Fallout 4 Was Made for Me tinkering through the apocalypse · 2017
From Creepy-Crawlies to Quasars the dirt made us curious — the dirt IS curious · 2016
Impossible Picture some things you just have to see for yourself · 2016
Six-Planet Infographic the sky in three dimensions · 2016
Different Perspective looking down on civilization from thirty thousand feet · 2016
Backyard Astronomy for Beginners all you need is darkness and patience · 2015
Second Star to the Right... a dim red star nobody notices · 2015
Nature is my Happy Place she's always there when you need her · 2015
Orbits for Dummies falling sideways, forever · 2014
Primal Astronomy the stars we shared with ancient humans · 2014
Celestial Oceans and Islands sailing metaphors for deep space · 2014
Why I Love Stargazing have an affair with the night sky · 2014