Long: Roundup

Priscilla Long celebrates her second year of writing “Science Frictions” for The American Scholar with a link to so far. Browse the list to see how Priscilla started small with a column on the purpose of life (from the perspective of a hair mite) and ended 2012 with...

Long: Your Hidden Pets

Priscilla Long reminds us what we might have forgotten about spiders from basic biology class or Charlotte’s Web. They aren’t insects, they inspired Greek and Roman myths, and they motivate us (or at least Priscilla) to do housecleaning....