Kristen French
@KristenFrench
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Associate editor @Nautilusmag Fine me on blue sky at https://t.co/zdAOXORbhQ
Joined March 2010
"Even when I wasn't in the lake, I was in the lake. Frozen." For @NautilusMag, @maryxdennis wrote this powerful tender essay about the grief that consumed her for years after her brother died, and her efforts to find her way back to herself. #longreads
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Everybody told me my grief would relent in a year. It only got worse. Was there something wrong with me?
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Bleak and utterly beautiful Tomioka Soichiro Japanese (1922-1994) ‘Trees’ 1961
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I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.
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The bass voices of the seas have been getting 30-40% lower for the last 60 years, and it’s a bit of a mystery why, writes @kristenfrench: https://t.co/Kbl84uimox
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Really enjoyed writing this article on my 3 greatest revelations while writing Adventures in Volcanoland for @NautilusMag and working with @KristenFrench! https://t.co/EfX2rf7r1h
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Tamsin Mather on her 3 greatest revelations while writing Adventures in Volcanoland.
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Tom Kuhn was my colleague at MIT, a lovely man, but the massive popularity of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions entrenched the pernicious idea that science (& intellectual inquiry more generally) lurches between incommensurable "paradigms" & cannot pursue truth. Filmmaker
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"What might people learn if they set aside preconceived notions about nativity and nonnativity and if they looked with clear eyes at what these species actually did?" Read an excerpt from MEET THE NEIGHBORS about convention-challenging ecologist @ejlundyy and wild donkeys:
Wild donkeys are considered an invasive species in the American Southwest. Inspired by watching donkeys dig wells in the parched desert, ecologist Erick Lundgren wants to challenge the ethics of labeling animals as invasive.
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Interintellect members now get a discount on @NautilusMag subscriptions, and I'm so excited! One of my favourite magazines!!
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Crazy how the punishment is a fine and not the immediate liquidation of the company and disbursement of all its assets as reparations to the workers and communities.
BREAKING: In a landmark victory for human rights, a US jury just found @Chiquita guilty of funding death squads in Colombia that were killing people near the company's banana farms. First time US courts hold major corporation accountable for human rts abuses abroad.👊🙏
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Iceland will soon have a phenomenal new climate president in @HallaTomas! Read more on this, rising sea levels, and more climate voices to follow here: https://t.co/etuVKAiO3u
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I love travel. And I think it's vital to reckon with the dark side of tourism in places like Mexico, where swaths of coast have been transformed for the benefit of outsiders at the expense of the people who live there. I spent a year reporting this:
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On a storied stretch of Mexico’s Baja peninsula, locals fight rich outsiders and rampant development that threaten to transform the coast and dry up aquifers.
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This is so very...worth your attention!
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How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?
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Great advice from Dennett for engaging philosophically with those you disagree with.
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"One has to listen very carefully to hear them and to distinguish them from the ambient noise...” Learn why auroras sizzle with sound, and we can hear it on Earth: https://t.co/CNRJC1bvGs
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The aurora sizzles with sound, and we can hear it on Earth.
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This is one hell of an ad that will air during the Super Bowl today. Retweet and pass it on.
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This whole thread is amazing.
Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
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This is a beautiful list and why I'm a subscriber to @NautilusMag : https://t.co/PzFl8sJaiN Check it out, follow the links and if you like what you read, support @NautilusMag It's what I did (and do)! #Science #technology #KNOWLEDGE #senseofwonder #curiosity
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These are a few of our favorite things from 2023.
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A wonderful piece by @NautilusMag that reads like a prose poem celebrating the beauty of science. “Stars are highly musical, ringing nonstop in response to the fusion energy pouring out of their cores…” https://t.co/uZhAj9Q1k8
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These are a few of our favorite things from 2023.
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