I’m a free-lance science writer. I interview scientists, then figure out what they’re saying and why I think that’s interesting.
I’ve written about most fields of science. But usually I write about astronomy — especially its sub-field, cosmology, which gratifyingly studies the birth and life history of the universe.
I’m an English major in life. So I see science as a story, as a plot moved by tensions between the characters. The characters can be theory and observation, or two theories, or individual scientists. The stories I find I like best are about scientists who are competitive, varied, and individualistic members of a single group with a single purpose. I think of these groups as schools of fish or birds that form, dissolve, and re-form as though they’re bound within an invisible line. A lovely idea but hard to write, and I’m still working on it.
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