Tag Archives: science

The TNB self-interview

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The Nervous Breakdown is a site to be explored at leisure—poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by published and emerging writers plus reviews of music and arts & culture. One feature they offer is self-interviews by emerging writers, and I was honored to … Continue reading →

Posted in book, nature, spirituality, writing | Tagged book writing, history, history of ideas, science, science and religion, writing | Comments Off

Our creative universe

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

So I’m at a party a dozen years ago in Oakland, California—I think it’s in my own living room, though I can’t remember for sure. Downstairs the salsa music is blaring, but up here people are gathered in threes and … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged astrophysics, Big Bang, cosmology, dark energy, Saul Perlmutter, science, universe | Comments Off

Slime mold: the new urban planner?

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Paul Stamets, the visionary mycologist, or mushroom biologist, recently appeared again at the national Bioneers conference. I’ve been following Stamets’s work for some time, and so I eagerly watched his presentation—and then watched it again. The deep wisdom of fungi … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged fungi, fungus, mushrooms, mycelium, mycology, Paul Stamets, science, urban planning | 3 Comments

I am an ecosystem

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

If the human body contains about 100 trillion cells, how many of these are human cells? All of them? Not quite. Not even close. Only 10 trillion, or about 10 percent, are human cells. The rest are microbes. That’s right: … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged antibiotics, bacteria, Bonnie Bassler, community, microbes, microbial, microbial communities, microbiology, Noah Fierer, science | 5 Comments

How does climate change affect Colorado’s water?

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Most Americans have the luxury of believing that the effects of climate change lie in the future. After all, our houses are not crumbling into melting permafrost, as in Alaska, or the rising sea, as in the Maldives. We have … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged Blog Action Day, climate change, creeks, global warming, rivers, science, water, water quality | 1 Comment

Kindness–an animal instinct

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Quick—who said this? Animals [are] our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death & suffering, & famine, our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements. They may partake from our origin in one common ancestor; we may … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged animal behavior, attitudes toward animals, Darwin, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary biology, Frans de Waal, natural history, natural selection, Occam's razor, Pavlov, science | 25 Comments

Where science and religion meet: The natural world

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Update May 3: This post appears in the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival hosted this week by marine biologist Kelsey Abbot at the Mauka to Makai blog. Check out some of the fascinating science writing available at the carnival, such … Continue reading →

Posted in education, nature, spirituality | Tagged natural history, science, science and religion, science education | 27 Comments