Kristen French

Associate editor @Nautilusmag Fine me on blue sky at

[Kristen French @KristenFrench]

"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

https://t.co/XNQsckDVme

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Bleak and utterly beautiful
Tomioka Soichiro
Japanese (1922-1994) ‘Trees’ 1961

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

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'.

[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

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

[Kristen French @KristenFrench]

@tamsinmather @NautilusMag Thank you, Tamsin. Was such a pleasure working with you!

[Tamsin Mather @tamsinmather]

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

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Wow.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

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 Erroll Morris defends objectivity in recalling "Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me." https://t.co/lYpxUPYyRs

[Brandon Keim @9brandon]

"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:

[Anna Gát 🧭 @TheAnnaGat]

Interintellect members now get a discount on @NautilusMag subscriptions, and I'm so excited!

One of my favourite magazines!!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

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.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

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

[Krista Langlois @cestmoiLanglois]

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: https://t.co/Pm7ykB4Fe9

[Kristen French @KristenFrench]

This is so very...worth your attention! https://t.co/nLbenDV8vK

[Philip Goff @Philip_Goff]

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

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

This is one hell of an ad that will air during the Super Bowl today. Retweet and pass it on.

[Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs]

Why We Reject New Ideas … https://t.co/qcIbg3D2aF

[Kristen French @KristenFrench]

thanks to @bsgallagher for pointing me to it!

[Kristen French @KristenFrench]

This whole thread is amazing.

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

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 🧵.

[Kristen French @KristenFrench]

@bethpratt @NautilusMag 💛