Photo courtesy of Fynn Schmidt, Unsplash In the short story, Another, by Dave Eggers, the narrator is in Cairo against the advice of his government to deliver a package, which he successfully does in the opening sentence. We know nothing about who he works for or what’s in the package. That’s irrelevant. More [...]
At first these essays comprised various topics of interest to me – for example, the nature of collecting and the power of “cracks” of time. Science has morphed into history for me after some fifty years of research. I have closed my laboratory at NIH and stepped aside to become what is, kindly, [...]
While some might insist that science is strictly factual, I think most would agree that speculation links discrete scientific data – facts – resulting in a narrative that becomes modified with additional data and knowledge. Speculation is not factual. In that sense, I view science as partly fact and partly story, and propose that reality [...]
