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Reimagining ourselves in the cosmos
A year with JWST
Jul 10
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Shannon Stirone
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April 2023
On not getting what you want
When I lived in the Bay I would go for a walk around the neighborhood every night. It would always be right after the end of the day as people were…
Apr 5
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Shannon Stirone
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February 2023
Golden Gate
Today someone shared a photo on twitter of the Golden Gate bridge before it was built. Just the bases on each side of Marin and SF were there, and an…
Feb 3
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Shannon Stirone
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January 2023
A deeper perspective
I’m in the weeds of book research and as a result I’ve been thinking a lot about the same things over and over—trying to get to the core of an idea, of…
Jan 21
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Shannon Stirone
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December 2022
What's in a year
It’s just about that time—that vague mushy week before a new year begins and we all look back at the last 365 days and reflect on what we’ve done, what…
Dec 27, 2022
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Shannon Stirone
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It's been a minute
Or a year, but who's keeping track
Dec 16, 2022
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Shannon Stirone
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May 2021
Why we do anything
Lately I’ve been talking to a lot of friends and colleagues about accomplishments. Particularly what success means, and viewed especially through the…
May 16, 2021
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Shannon Stirone
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April 2021
The line of hope
“For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.” ― Immanuel Kant This morning I got my Covid…
Apr 11, 2021
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Shannon Stirone
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March 2021
The Time that always exists
And also never does
Mar 15, 2021
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Shannon Stirone
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The Awe Paradox
This week I published an essay in The Atlantic which you can (and should) read here, about Elon Musk and his view of populating Mars. I touched on this…
Mar 1, 2021
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Shannon Stirone
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February 2021
Why we go to space
In Lucretius’s epic 1st century poem, On The Nature of Things, he wrote “There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does…
Feb 21, 2021
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We're all here
If you squint
Feb 14, 2021
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Shannon Stirone
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