There’s this moment when your airplane is taking off into thunderstorms and you are about to enter a brilliant white thunderhead when your mind knows that it’s just water vapor but your heart lurches a bit because it knows you are about to smash into something craggy and solid. But of course you don’t, and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Stalker God
My friend Leah Pantéa just did a podcast with Jordan Ekeroth of The Reindeer Club where she talked about her art and faith. I am going to do two posts on ideas that were sparked by their conversation, and I am too lazy to go back into the podcast and give direct quotes, so you … Continue reading
1.4 BOLDLY GO WHERE ONLY MICROBES HAVE GONE BEFORE (2)
Research is showing that by changing the microbiome in our guts we may be able to positively or negatively affect our entire holobiont. Looking at the future as read in the guts of settlers, we see an inevitable movement away from health-manipulation based on population studies to personalized health. As the scientific process validates and … Continue reading
Are We Human, Or Are We Systems?
Or both. One of the lovely things about science fiction is that you can be wildly entertained yet have your paradigm blown wide open. An artist’s goal should be to help people change how they see the world so that the familiar is weird and the weird is familiar. In that change, the audience revises … Continue reading
In Absence Is The Thing
I love camping in the desert as summer gets closer. The days are so hot that you simply can’t do anything but sit in the shade, waiting for that magic moment before sunset when the air softens. That moment when the boundaries between self and the world are lost because you can’t really tell where the … Continue reading
1.4 BOLDLY GO WHERE ONLY MICROBES HAVE GONE BEFORE (1)
The story of the human species is being told in our guts, and we need intrepid explorers to chart and decipher the narrative. These explorers are not limited to the laboratory or field research; they can be found in offices, grocery stores, gyms, coffee shops, and brew pubs. A gut explorer is the guy the … Continue reading
Creative Science
One thing I love about the scientific community is how amazingly creative everyone is. The stereotype of the boring scientist who doesn’t think past “his” work is not only a stereotype, I don’t even know how it could have become one. Every scientist I know, pursues a creative focus from brewing award-winning beer to writing … Continue reading
