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The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space. I Am Because You Are. Short stories and poems. Writers and writing inspired by science:. 8211; based in Germany, an academic programme that explores literary stories about science. LabLit.com latest articles. 8211; the culture of science in fiction and fact. 8211; encourages interactions between scientists and writers. Astronomy Picture of the Day. Musings from the Third Half. The Early Days of a Better Nation. My poems in House of Three anthology.
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the write reality: Why we should resist the urge to classify everything
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009. Why we should resist the urge to classify everything. James Kelman has been letting off steam. And how much of it seems to be in thrall to style, at the expense of content or plot? Many writers sneer at so-called ‘plot-driven’ genre. But just what is wrong with plot? Why are books with more character development than plot lauded over genre? Caster Semenya’s plight may read like a science fiction novel, but it’s real. Posted by Pippa Goldschmidt. Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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the write reality: November 2009
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Friday, 27 November 2009. More (un)certainty, or do I mean something else? Following on from my last blog, the event on poetry and astronomy at Royal Observatory in Greenwich went very well. Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a great talk and invited members of the audience to read aloud the poems on astronomy she had selected. These readings were fantastic; and I think helped the discussion with the audience to flow more freely. What Heisenberg actually deduced, and what he summarised in this principle, is that ...
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the write reality: August 2009
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Sunday, 9 August 2009. Tiny galaxies, enormous atoms, and people at the centre of it all. Literary fiction usually only portrays human characters. This type of fiction places humans at the centre of what is an inhuman universe. It hasn’t absorbed the lesson of the Copernican revolution. Science deals with physical and temporal phenomena on all scales. The way we define a second of time uses gaps between energy levels in atoms. Stars and galaxies were created billions of years ago. There is a lovely poem.
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the write reality: More (un)certainty, or do I mean something else?
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Friday, 27 November 2009. More (un)certainty, or do I mean something else? Following on from my last blog, the event on poetry and astronomy at Royal Observatory in Greenwich went very well. Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a great talk and invited members of the audience to read aloud the poems on astronomy she had selected. These readings were fantastic; and I think helped the discussion with the audience to flow more freely. What Heisenberg actually deduced, and what he summarised in this principle, is that ...
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the write reality: May 2010
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Monday, 10 May 2010. An absence, or a vacuum, or perhaps just nothing to say. Hello, I’m back. This blog has been frozen in time while I went away and started work at the Government. This occupied my mind to the extent that I found I couldn’t think of anything interesting to write about. I could have written some nice blogs about offshore renewable energy (the subject of my Government job) but other people write about that subject better than me. Is there a point to game-playing like this in literature?
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the write reality: October 2009
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Thursday, 29 October 2009. Dark matter – clear poetry. The Royal Observatory Greenwich is holding a public event. On 10 November to discuss poems about astronomy. The astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the poet Kelley Swaine, and I will be speaking at it. There is a lot of poetry written about astronomy, and I find this surprising for a couple of reasons. Tell me I’m wrong). What can poetry meaningfully say about astronomy? Or is it being explored as something interesting in its own right? Rebecca Els...
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the write reality: Storytelling – and the taxi number
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Sunday, 10 October 2010. Storytelling – and the taxi number. Not many people outside the field can understand either Ramanujan’s or Hardy’s contributions to mathematics. What is more widely known is the story of the taxi number. I first heard this story when I was a child, and my grandfather used to tell it to me;. And my grandfather and I would shake our heads and smile in awe at Ramanujan’s ability to analyse numbers and expose their inner workings. Posted by Pippa Goldschmidt. 10 October 2010 at 15:41.
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the write reality: An absence, or a vacuum, or perhaps just nothing to say.
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Monday, 10 May 2010. An absence, or a vacuum, or perhaps just nothing to say. Hello, I’m back. This blog has been frozen in time while I went away and started work at the Government. This occupied my mind to the extent that I found I couldn’t think of anything interesting to write about. I could have written some nice blogs about offshore renewable energy (the subject of my Government job) but other people write about that subject better than me. Is there a point to game-playing like this in literature?
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the write reality: February 2011
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Sunday, 13 February 2011. I'm moving this blog to a new location on my website, where it can nestle comfortably alongside excerpts from my fiction and other pieces of non-fiction. Please come and visit it at. Http:/ www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk/pippa-goldschmidt-blog/. Posted by Pippa Goldschmidt. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Edinburgh, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. New Science-Inspired Story on Radio 4 This Sunday. Musings from the Third Half. Visit My New Blog! Am I a dog?
